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...A.Room might have struck a chord by waving the flag for Cantonese hip-hop but with success it's suddenly finding a larger mission. DJ Tommy earned raves from Japanese and Korean music 'zines in August with his A.Room-produced album Respect 4 Da Chopstick Hip Hop -- which he recorded with an eclectic mix of Japanese, Korean and Cantonese hip-hop artists. He believes beats can bring Asian youth together. "Because we like hip-hop we have something in common," says Tommy, who won international fame in the early '90s with his blurry-handed appearances at the world DJ competition...
...laws' babies. She's not alone. On Sept. 10, MTV VJ and former BET host Ananda Lewis wants to bring back Phil Donahue-style social issues on her own syndicated talk show. (Both shows will air in most U.S. markets.) But Iyanla (ee-yon-la) and Ananda (an-on-da; wait till David Letterman gets them in the same room) face the common belief that only one mononym can get away with nonsensationalistic talk...
...Kids have no sense of history; they think something was invented the first time they learned of it. So I can't say if another Jocko salutation - "Oo papa doo, and how da ya do?" - and his occasional ejaculation "Great googa-mooga!" were his inventions. Or maybe that was Jocko's WDAS colleague, Georgie Woods, the Man With the Goods (who lived about three blocks from me). But it sounded fresh and seductive to this kid. An evening with Jocko was like an all-night jam session: the records were the familiar choruses, and his patter was the inspired improv...
...Da Costa enrolled in EDISCA, and the school changed her life, as it has the lives of 800 other girls ages 6 to 19--and a few boys--from Fortaleza, a coastal city in Brazil's poverty-racked northeast. The school was founded in 1992 by Dora Andrade, 42, a dancer who cut short her career in the U.S. to come home and teach girls to dance their way out of the slums. Most of the children who enter EDISCA can't read or write. Many have health problems and are close to running away from violent homes or being...
...EDISCA doesn't form dancers, it forms people," says Da Costa, now 19 and heading for college. She plans to start a dance school of her own "to pass on everything I learned from Dora...