Category: Features
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What Brixton Market’s Sale Could Mean for its Community
On a cool Saturday evening in early March, shoppers browsed London’s Brixton Market as Latin and Caribbean music plays and the smell of jerk chicken and various spices permeates the air. People wade between stalls and shops selling fruits, fish, meats, fabrics, and more. They stop to greet each other as they pass by, exchanging…
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A new beginning for Argentinian football? Or a false start?
The Argentinian soccer club Estudiantes de La Plata sits in first place in the Liga Profesional de Fútbol’s Group A, tied with two other teams. The players are affectionately known as La Pincha. At games, fans chant an anthem putting down other teams: “I’m not a Boca fan because I was born in Argentina, I’m…
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Warehouse 421 Season Expands the Definition of Art
A performer strode to the front of the wooden stage and asked the people sitting before him, “Are you coming from home? Are you coming from a place that you are living, but is not home? How many of you have a scent or taste that reminds you of home?” The 35 people in the …
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The Fading Hues of the Rainbow in Paris’s Marais
Despite the low temperatures typical of a late February night, the atmosphere inside Le Tango Paris was hot and sweaty as the crowd, drowned in dim red lights, danced to the booming music of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever”. When the lyrics “we’re meant to be together” played, same sex couples inched closer together under the disco…
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Students Adjust to Semester Abroad
By Savannah Prager January 1, 2023 NYU junior Leah El-Ouazzane is a born traveler, growing up in Paris, Texas and San Francisco. So it seemed likely that a study abroad semester would enhance her college experience. She spent a semester in Tel Aviv, followed by another this fall in Buenos Aires, even planning on a…
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