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NY NOW explores handmade trends in the 'MENA'
NY NOW Handmade product was a major category at New York’s just-ended biannual NY NOW specialty marketing trade show, which took place...
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Jim Bessman
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Ann Allen Savoy completes her long-awaited second volume of her encyclopedic Cajun music books
When Ann Allen Savoy announced late last year that she had finally finished Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People--Volume II, calling it...
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Jim Bessman
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Zydeco's Terrance Simien honors his musical forebears via 'Ancestral Grooves'
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Jim Bessman
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What makes Australia’s ‘Mystery Road’ film/TV franchise so riveting? Producer Greer Simpkin explains
Mystery Road Season 2 trailer They haven’t had much exposure in the U.S., but Australia’s celebrated Mystery Road neo-western crime...
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