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If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel

Mona Eltahawy | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Sting, Twitter, Bloggers, U.S., Tibet, Facebook, Uighurs, Bjork, Darfur, Arabs, Buddhist, Sudan, Egypt, Xinjiang Province, Muslim, Israel, China, Bono, World News
Mona Eltahawy

If these Uighurs were Buddhists, Bjork, Sting, Bono and all those other one-named saviors of the world's poor and oppressed would have held "Free Xinxiang" concerts already.

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Smellorama Redux: New and Improved on Manhattan's Upper East Side

Jane Levere | Posted 06.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Smellorama, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nico Muhly, Bjork, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Opera, Entertainment News
Jane Levere

The audience at the Guggenheim will sit in seats outfitted with "scent microphones" that direct scents at each audience member while music supports the scents by helping them "sound".

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What I Smelled, Heard, Tasted, Touched And Saw In Iceland

David Parker | Posted 06.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Iceland, Comedy, Bjork, Comedy News
David Parker

1) Hundreds of posters for Gus Gus, which is very popular in Iceland.
2) Hundreds of people who didn't seem to know if Gus Gus was a movie, a nightclub or candy.

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SNL: Bjork, Michael Phelps "Really," And The "Today" Show (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Snl Michael Phelps, Kristen Wiig, Video, Andy Samberg, Snl, Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live, Hoda Kotb, Michaela Watkins, SNL Bjork, Bjork, Michael Phelps, Bjork Snl, Entertainment News

"Saturday Night Live" was hosted by Bradley Cooper ("He's Just Not That Into You," "Wedding Crashers") this week. The show featured skits making fun ...

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Bjork Battles Icelandic Aluminum Industry

Green Inc. | James Kanter | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Rio Tinto, Environmental Policy, Iceland, Energy Economics, Energy Politics, Aluminum, Geothermal Energy, Energy Business, Alcoa, Climate Change, Alternative Energy, BjöRk, Bjork, Green News

The hugely popular Icelandic singer Björk has gone into battle with another of the island's big exports - aluminum. Björk says the aluminum product...

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Iceland's Iconic Singer- Bjork To Take Center Stage for CoolPlanet2009

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Stefanie Michaels, Europe, Adventure Girl, Iceland, Environment, Aluminum Smelters, Nattura.org, Global Warming, Bjork, coolplanet2009, Unric, Green News
Stefanie Michaels

UNRIC - the United Nations Information Centre for Western Europe is launching its second European public information campaign, "CoolPlanet2009", to ra...

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China Clamps Down After Bjork's "Tibet" Chant

Reuters | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: China, Tibet, Bjork, Entertainment News

China will ban all entertainers from overseas, Hong Kong and Taiwan who have ever attended activities that "threaten national sovereignty", the govern...

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Woman Of Style Faith-Ann Young: Counterculture Is Back

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Slideshow, Faith-Ann Young, Lesley Blume, Hendrix, Vogue, Client 9, Birkin Bag, Jon Favreau, The Doors, Music, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jim Morrison, Barack Obama, Bjork, The Hamptons, Counterculture, Style, Frida Kahlo, Ali Mcgraw, Designers, Fashion, Stephan Wuerth, Living News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Produced, directed, and reported by Lesley M. M. Blume Photography by Stephan Wuerth Photo assistant: William Taylor You can probably sense it: this...

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Harry Connick Jr. Runs Afoul Of China's Crazed Censors

AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Harry Connick Jr., China, Bjork, Entertainment News

SHANGHAI, China — Singer-pianist Harry Connick Jr. is the latest Western performer to bump up against China's cultural restrictions. Connick sa...

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China Stricter After Bjork's Tibet Chant

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: China, Tibet, Bjork, Entertainment News

SHANGHAI, China — China will be stricter on foreign performers after Icelandic singer Bjork shouted "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of her concert in...

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Bjork "Attacks" Photographer, Rips Off Shirt

Daily Mail | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bjork Photographer, Glenn Jeffrey, Bjork, Entertainment News

Icelandic singer and songwriter Bjork allegedly attacked a newspaper photographer shortly after she arrived at New Zealand's Auckland International Ai...

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