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Laura Marling: London album launch – a chance to be there

‘A Creature I Don’t Know’ is released on 12th September and all of its accompanying UK tour ...

8. September 2011

Book recalls Japan tsunami through children’s eyes

Schoolchildren Kento Iguchi and Rena Sato (L), wrote about their experiences for the book "Tsunami", a collection of essays written by children. The young writers not only wrote about the destruction and deaths in the family, but also about the joy of being alive and their hopes for the future.

TOKYO: Remembering Japan’s quake-tsunami disaster, one child writes how the earth rumbled and roared, another recalls that the black wave stank and a third, who lost her friend, calls the tsunami “greedy”. The stories – simply written, touching and often heart-breaking – are among a collection of children’s essays published in a book titled “Tsunami” that has touched a nerve in the traumatised nation. The language is often innocent and unpolished, but the stories are so direct and powerful that to many readers they convey the horror of the disaster as deeply as anything else that has been written about March 11. The man behind the book, journalist Ken Mori, said he decided to chronicle the seismic calamity, which claimed more than 20,000 lives and sparked the Fukushima nuclear emergency, “through the eyes of children”. In the dark and icy weeks after the quake, he visited evacuation centres in 10 towns and cities and asked about 100 children there, aged between five and 17, to write down their memories of the catastrophe. “The children struggled to recall what they had felt with their five senses,” Mori, 43, told AFP. “They lacked skill in writing, but I think the readers felt their works were vivid and real.” ...

8. September 2011

Japan: Mental care centers planned for kids orphaned by disaster

The welfare ministry decided Wednesday to set up mental health care centers for children who lost ...

8. September 2011

Risk and Retna Secretly Paint a Santa Monica House for Heal the Bay

Shannon Cottrell

In 2008, a deco-style fortress built in the '50s and originally belonging to a prominent family in Santa Monica fell into foreclosure in the middle of an extensive renovation. Until three months ago it stood vacant, an eerie house on a bluff with a homeless woman squatting the top floor. The terraced gardens in back had overgrown and were infested with rats. The neighbors on this otherwise upscale block wondered and complained. Then came Adam Corlin, with a cause, a dare, and an endless supply of tarps. Corlin, a successful builder and a fourth generation Santa Monica resident, had his eye on this property, and when the price dropped to 50 percent of its original asking price, he jumped at the opportunity to own it. But this was no ordinary flip -- Corlin had some time in his hacienda rehab schedule and wanted to raise awareness for his favorite charity, Heal the Bay, the environmental group working to restore Santa Monica Bay. In speaking to the organization, he knew it had to be different than the usual donation or doing volunteer work. He had a blank house in Santa Monica, he had resources to do something big, and he had just met a graf artist appropriately named Risk. ...

8. September 2011

Evanescence: “What You Want” Video Teaser

Evanescence is back! Not only is their first single of the new album amazing, Amy Lee also looks ...

8. September 2011