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An arts perspective on the tragic Typhoon and Hurrican Sandy: Humera Afridi

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Share Humera Afridi: Tell Them Our Stories November 25, 2013 On storytelling and survival in post-disaster landscapes, from Tacloban City to Staten Island. Image from Flickr via International Labour Organization - ILO PHOTOS By Humera Afridi As heart-wrenching appeals from survivors of Typhoon Haiyan rupture the scrim of our days—as do the images of uprooted coconut orchards, decomposing bodies and incomprehensible destruction—I can’t help but think of the silence that will, in all likelihood, all too soon, cloak the tragedy and the Philippines’ long struggle towards recovery. The barrage of disaster news reminds those who’ve survived a cataclysm that media attention brings with it a tincture of healing. When plight is public, loss and commiseration become communal. In October 2005, after a massive earthquake struck Pakistan, I joined the relief efforts of a local NGO in the country’s mountainous north. Traveling to rural villages an...

Weekend Box Office!

The weekend is always good for the box office. This weekend lets see who gross the most by taking a look at the top ten movies from the box office. N The Hunger Games: Catching Fire LGF $158,074,286 - 4,163 - $37,971 $158,074,286 $130 1 2 1 Thor: The Dark World BV $14,196,302 -61.2% 3,713 -128 $3,823 $167,917,123 $170 3 3 2 The Best Man Holiday Uni. $12,490,920 -58.5% 2,041 +17 $6,120 $50,360,510 $17 2 4 N Delivery Man BV $7,944,977 - 3,036 - $2,617 $7,944,977 $26 1 5 4 Free Birds Rela. $5,363,208 -33.8% 3,071 -439 $1,746 $48,657,073 $55 4 6 3 Last Vegas CBS $4,359,075 -48.3% 2,926 -311 $1,490 $53,884,824 $28 4 7 5 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Par. $3,433,864 -53.7% 2,625 -565 $1,308 $95,434,629 $15 5 8 6 Gravity WB $3,210,155 -47.4% 1,845 -715 $1,740 $245,407,759 $100 8 9 8 12 Years a Slave FoxS $2,833,635 -38.5% 1,474 +63 $1,922 $29,426,947 - 6 10 12 Dallas Buyers Club Focus $2,687,157 +53.4% 666 +482 $4,035 $6,374,058 - 4  

Its a cold Weekend!

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This weekend will be a rather cold one so plans will have to include wearing a jacket, unless you live on South Beach. Miami, Florida is my second home and how I would love to go warm up there for the weekend. So what's on the agenda this weekend. Well there's college football, early Christmas shopping, and the American Music Awards on Sunday. I personally would like to see who wins out of  Texas A&M and LSU since both teams are ranked in the top 25. Well hopefully there is something you can get into. Maybe go dancing or to a birthday party. Till Next Time, Phillipe aka Sean.

Music..Who's Hot and at the Top!

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Today we're showing you who's at the top of Billboard for Thursday 11/21/2013 Billboard Videos Photos Articles Artists Search form Search Hot 100 Billboard 200 Genres Pop Breaking and Entering Rock R&B/Hip-Hop Country Latin Dance/Electronic Christian/Gospel Additional Genres International Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Albums France Songs Germany Albums Germany Songs Japan Hot 100 K-Pop Hot 100 All Charts Podcast Last week November 30, 2013 Next week Print The Hot 100 80.916 k 19.815 k 1.1 k The week's most popular current songs across ... more all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming acti...