Push Dance Company presents ‘Bitter Melon’
Andrea Pflaumer Special to The S.F. Examiner We pass them every day — quaint historical relics, echoes of local heroes and distant battles. But for choreographer Raissa Simpson, the Dewey Monument in Union Square — a tribute to Admiral George Dewey’s Spanish-American War victory in Manila Bay — echoes through her Filipina DNA. This weekend, Simpson presents an outdoor multimedia performance at ...
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A deeper dive analysis of two Cubans | Gene Expression
About a week ago I put up a post put on an analysis of a paper which reported on the ancestral make up of 50 Cubans (as well as assorted other Hispanic/Latino groups). One aspect of the paper which was somewhat notable is that 1 out of 3 Cubans were 90 percent or more European in ancestry. The notability of this is that is that 5 out of 6 Cuban Americans identify as white. That is, of European ...
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Ben Arogundade: Is Othello Really Black?
William Shakespeare's character Othello is generally regarded as a black African. But is this true? Could he have been an Arab or a Spanish Moor?
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Falcao on fire as Atletico Madrid win Europa League
Atletico Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in Wednesday's all-Spanish final of the Europa League in the Romanian capital Bucharest, thanks to two stunning first-half goals from Radamel Falcao.
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