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...chose to limit the size of the sold-out event to 80,000 - 10,000 fewer people than last year. "We're committed to making it better every year," explained Jonathan Mayers, a promoter from New Orleans who co-founded Bonnaroo in 2002 around the idea of spotlighting local Southern artists. As Mayers has watched Bonnaroo grow, he and his collaborators have dedicated themselves to transforming the event into a regional mecca that fuses a range of musical styles with technology, media and art. "We want to challenge our audience and we want to introduce people to new music...
...setting is deceptively serene and inviting. Deep in the woods of southern Wisconsin, past the antique malls and strawberry fields of Highways 12 and A, a retired farmer stands above a pond and keeps watch over a dozen ducklings and geese. But hanging on a wall behind the gentle 87-year-old man, taped in white lettering on a granite fa?ade, is a haunting welcome to a startling shrine. ?Honorary Hall for Adolf Hitler: Before You Pass Judgment, Give Careful and Equal Consideration to Both Sides...
...early on a sunny morning in Southern Mexico that my family gathered in an outdoor kitchen, ready to convert a mountain of ingredients into a four-course feast. Sun-dried chili peppers, fresh nuts, chunk chocolate and a score of other ingredients were waiting to be blended into a spicy mole sauce. Crisp jicamas (roots of a local bean plant) had been set aside for salad. The buds of Castilian roses would be transformed into ice cream. It was an ambitious menu?especially since none of us had any idea how to make those dishes. But that was the point...
...once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored, and a marigold-eating tent-man reinvents himself as an event manager only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family, and our wedding as theirs. Released in 2001, Monsoon Wedding won several awards and is still one of the highest-grossing foreign movies ever...
...years as a detention center for some 750 men the U.S. has held as terrorist suspects, Camp Delta on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay has been the scene of at least 41 suicide attempts, according to U.S. officials. None were successful until Saturday, when the U.S. Southern Command reported that three men had hanged themselves. After a few sweet days during which the White House could savor the accomplishment of the al-Zarqawi killing, the word from Gitmo introduced a bitter taste...