Aug 1st, 2008 · Business owners and shopkeepers are the vanguard of China's ever-expanding presence in Africa. One scholar says China is hungry for the continent's raw materials and warns that the relationship is unbalanced.
Jul 28th, 2008 · In its knowing play of dark words and raw images, Rob Vollman and Pablo Callejo's earthy graphic novel tells a tale worth hearing –- and seeing.
Jul 19th, 2008 · Andrea Seabrook quotes from jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery: "I never practice my guitar. From time to time, I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat."
Jul 18th, 2008 · Everyone Is Crying Out to Me, Beware, the second album from Ukrainian-born singer-songwriter Alina Simone, is utterly haunting. With bare-bones arrangements and Simone's powerful, poignant vocals at the forefront, the record burns through a collection of songs by Siberian punk-folk singer, Yanka Dyagileva, with cathartic fervor. Though the lyrics are in Russian, the emotions are raw and easily felt.
Jul 11th, 2008 · A new case has been reported near Las Vegas in the salmonella outbreak linked to more than 1,000 people across the country. Health officials this week added fresh jalapeno peppers and cilantro to the list of suspected foods contaminated by the bacteria. The list also includes some raw tomatoes.
Jun 25th, 2008 · Only eight states allow raw milk to be sold in stores for human consumption, but that hasn't stopped people across the country from drinking it. Fans argue that pasteurization kills good bacteria as well as bad, but experts are divided.
Jun 25th, 2008 · "Hopesick" itself stands in stark contrast to the lust-and-thrust of Louis XIV's previous releases, in the process revealing real, raw emotions surrounding drug use, unattainable love, and the break-up of a band that's been together for years. The song is all dirt and delicacy, desperation and damage, love and loss, and it is as it always should have sounded.
Jun 13th, 2008 · Athens, GA band Mass Solo Revolt hasn't lost sight of its predecessors — Pavement, Built to Spill — harnessing those raw sounds from the early '90s to create a less polished, yet still infectious, throwback indie rock sound. The opening chords to the band's debut CD, Easy Mark could have been pulled straight off Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted, offering the same lazy, off-kilter sound. Lead singer Martin Brummeler's idiosyncratic lyrics about "crooked teeth" and "rubber knives" add to the song's quirky feel; the track proves uniquely poppy with catchy hooks.