The new King Kapisi album, Dominant Species, took a while to put together, Bill Urale admits, but he's been a busy man since the 2003 release of 2nd Round Testament.
The hip-hop maestro has been from Norway to Japan and the United States performing at anything from festivals to self-organised gigs and cultural initiatives.
King Kapisi, a household name in New Zealand, Australia and...
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is not the kind of woman you'd expect to own a stash of erotic art. She's a beautiful, rosy-cheeked, 70-year-old Jewish grandmother. Her late husband, Siggi Wilzig, was by all accounts a very proper man: a bank president and one of the founders of the Holocaust Museum in Was...
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It's about the battle over opportunity in America as seen through the lens of the admissions policies at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton over the last century. More specifically, it's about who was admitted, who was excluded, and why; how and why admissions policies changed over the course of the past 100 years; who won and who lost with each of these changes; and, most important of all, what th...
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1969 was a watershed year for American cinema, with two films in particular heralding significant changes to the movie-making industry. One was "Midnight Cowboy," the story of a hustler and a junkie on the streets of New York City, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman; this became the first X-rated film to win an Oscar, proving that an X was no barrier to mass acceptance.
The other was ...