The Africa Genesis Foundation (AGF) was born in the Labour Ward of Lwala Hospital in Northern Uganda in 1991 and was registered as a not-for-profit corporation in 1994 by American feminist theologian Dr. Colleen Weiden. The foundation is a joint American-African organization that fosters health improvements for underprivileged peoples in rural parts of Kenya, Uganda,… Read more »
Book: Yishai Sarid, Limassol (Trans. Barbara Harshaw). Publisher: Europa Editions, 2010. ?I asked Haim if he had any idea of how to get Yotam off drugs. ?You won’t like what I tell you.? His red eyes groped for mine, he squinted slightly. ?You know what my answer is.? ?Opium for the masses,? I said. ?Exactly…. Read more »
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The Africa Genesis Foundation (AGF) was born in the Labour Ward of Lwala Hospital in Northern Uganda in 1991 and was registered as a not-for-profit corporation in 1994 by American feminist theologian Dr. Colleen. The foundation is a joint American-African organization that fosters health improvements for underprivileged peoples in rural parts of Kenya, Uganda, and… Read more »
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Ashram composes hauntingly beautiful musical pieces suggestive of early 20th-century classical music, and performs them with consummate grace and skill. The trio came together in June 1997 with a collaboration between singer Sergio Panarella and pianist Luigi Rubino. The duo later asked violinist Alfredo Notarloberti (Edo) to join them. Recently, Sergio, Luigi, and Edo took… Read more »
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Jesse David Weeks is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter who also happens to be a police officer. The title track of his debut release, ?Somewhere in the Distance,? co-written by Paul Burns, won the Grand Prize in the 2010 Astral Media Radio Star National Songwriting Competition. His father, Gary Weeks, toured with the Stampeders as part of… Read more »
?It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.? Gertrude Stein ?The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.? Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Andy and Ariana: Seeking Commotion (2010) My two favorite mad geniuses (formerly known as T@b; read the Voice interview… Read more »
Ben Jaffe is the son of Allan and Sandra Jaffe, the founders of Preservation Hall in New Orleans. It was his idea to create the album Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program; you can read the Voice review of this album here. Ben also plays tuba in… Read more »