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By Juliet Linderman
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Mar. 12, 2003 |
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It's words in the mind, the tip of the thought/ You put it on your tongue and spit it out and you see what you got/ Sometimes you don't know if it's not going to be hot/ Or if it'll straight drop, you gotta use thought/ It's the expression, the view is when we see it/ I represent it through the freestyle when I mean it."
Twenty-two-year-old Alfredo, also known as MC Aruku Sake, takes a breath. He high fives his cohort, beat-boxer and fellow crew member Zen How, and smiles to himself, pleased with his fifteen-second impromptu exposition of a growing art form.
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By Helen Chan and Peggy Leung
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Mar. 12, 2003 |
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As the elevator doors slide open, a giant bronze Guan Yin, the bodhisattva of compassion, stands humbly in serenity. Puffs of celestial air flow through her lengthy garments. Light shines upon her intricate headpiece decorated with carefully sculpted beads, her tranquil nature making the atmosphere peaceful.
Students can view sculptures like the Guan Yin at the new Asian Art Museum, which opens to the public on Thursday at 200 Larkin Street, the former location of the main library.
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By Hansel Palarca
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Mar. 12, 2003 |
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No matter how hard we try to escape it, reality always has a way of catching up with us, for better or worse.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father, a feature film from Greece, is the touching story of a little boy's race against death and sorrowful confrontation with loss. Through emotion-packed performances and dramatic shots, director Penny Panayotopoulou takes the viewer on a moving journey through a dark world of death and grief.
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By Keane Ng
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Mar. 12, 2003 |
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Jamie Meltzer's Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story may arguably be the greatest documentary ever made about Christ, blind men's penises and ginseng miners. Okay, Off the Charts is not exactly "about" Christ, blind men's penises and ginseng miners. But the film does expertly explore the bizarre, poignant and incredibly fascinating song-poem culture, a world inhabited by ordinary people — ordinary people interested in writing song-poems about Christ, blind men's penises and ginseng miners.
In response to deceptive advertisements promising success, aspiring song-writers send lyrics to musicians and producers, who, for a fee, change their words into songs and put them to hackneyed music: cheesy lounge-style ballads, cheesy `80s synth-pop, cheesy almost-disco, etc.
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By Amanda Tong
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Mar. 12, 2003 |
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Group members work diligently through the night to put finishing touches on the bomb, careful to not attract any attention from the motel's owners. After placing the bomb into a backpack and zipping it up, they are off to destroy a San Francisco landmark in protest of the U.S. government's policies.
No, this is not the work of al Qaeda operatives, but an actual plot carried out by the Weather Underground, a 1970s radical militant group that perpetuated a series of attacks against the U.S. government.
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By Mia James
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Mar. 12, 2003 |
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In Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, gypsy heroine Esmerelda twirls and whirls, accentuating brightly colored scarves and clanging metal coins and inspiring little girls to don big hoop earrings and bangle bracelets for annual Halloween parties. But the French film Swing puts a fresh new spin on this stereotypical gypsy persona that most of us are well versed in: Reality.
Now don't be fooled; Swing is not the kind of reality in which thirteen millionaire gypsy bachelorettes are stranded in the Amazon competing to be the ultimate gypsy idol. Director Tony Gatlif instead showcases the real gypsies' rich customs and traditions.
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By Joyce Chen
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Feb. 13, 2003 |
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Lincoln High School senior Andrew Kyauk leans over the lab table, observing a mixture of enzymes and DNA inside a gel. Using a syringe-like micropipette, he applies a liquid to the blend, which begins to glow. Around him, groups of students huddle over their equipment, swapping ideas.
These students are experimenting in biotechnology, a new field of science coming to Bay Area high schools, including Lowell. The DNA splicing activity is part of a Lincoln junior and senior course called Principles of Biotechnology, the first section of a two-year program, according to Lincoln science teacher George Cachianes.
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