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Belly Drummers of Oaxaca: Cuacuahuececeyotl
by AAJ Staff
It takes some guts to play the belly drums, but what better place to find them than Oaxaca, the celebrated home of the world's best chocolate--right in the heart of Mexico, one of the most obese countries on the planet. The members of this all-Oaxacan sextet have made a pledge to each other that together they're going to make it big, which means they pack in several courses of buttered tortillas between those delicious cups of hot chocolate every day. ...
read moreDavid Hasselhoff: Swings Krautland
by AAJ Staff
David Hasselhoff is best known to American audiences as the hunk hero of Knight Rider and Baywatch, two TV shows that relied upon props to hold their respective audiences' attention. (For Knight Rider it was a talking car; the lifeguard series offered busty girls in tight red swimsuits.) Baywatch became an immensely popular series around the world and Hasselhoff has branched out in the meantime to a singing career with remarkable promise. In Germany and Austria he has godlike stature. ...
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