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- Senegalese artist transforms Conakry’s walls with captivating street art, in photos
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Street art graffiti is spreading in West Africa. In Guinea’s capital, an artist from Senegal is transforming city walls and public perceptions. Omar Diaw says graffiti was seen as vandalism in Conakry not even a decade ago. He decided to change minds by starting with public awareness murals. This is a [...] Read More »
4 hours ago - ‘Our reality, our values’: Graffiti finds growing acceptance in West Africa
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — It was the middle of the day when Omar Diaw, known by his artist name “Chimere” — French for chimera — approached a blank wall off the main thoroughfare in Guinea ‘s capital and started spray-painting. “They know who I am,” he said confidently. Though it wasn’t clear who ”they” were, [...] Read More »
9 hours ago - The new Children’s Booker Prize aims to reward quality fiction for kids
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s most prestigious literary prize is getting a younger sibling. The Booker Prize Foundation announced Friday that it is setting up the Children’s Booker Prize alongside its existing awards for English-language and translated fiction. Like its sister prizes, the children’s award comes with a 50,000 pound ($67,000) purse. The prize will open [...] Read More »
14 hours ago - Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons make the case for the wild ride that is ‘Bugonia’
Jesse Plemons has a plea: Pause Netflix and go see “Bugonia” in the theater. The film, in which he plays a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps and tortures Emma Stone’s pharma CEO, believing her to be an alien, is the kind that might seem small in scope. On a certain level, it’s three people — the [...] Read More »
19 hours ago - Bestselling author Jodi Picoult pushes back after her musical is canceled by Indiana high school
NEW YORK (AP) — Author Jodi Picoult has the dubious honor of being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a musical based on her novel “Between the Lines.” “I’m pretty sure I’m the first author who has now had censorship occur in two different types of media,” Picoult says. “Honestly, [...] Read More »
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