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In India, dispelling nazar takes all sorts of forms—from putting a black dot on an infants forehead to wearing black threads or tabeez, to twirling a fist of dried red chillies around a person and tossing those in kitchen fire, to hanging a string of lemon and green chillies in front of a vehicle. In the post-pandemic world, a heightened sense of vulnerability seems to have driven a section of people to seek protection in something else—the Turkish evil eye. The nazar boncuk, as it i...

Tiffany is an Broadway and film actress, singer, dancer and arts educator with a career in the entertainment industry spanning more than two decades. In addition, she is a certified Life Coach practitioner (The Soulful Life Coach) and Executive Speech Coach (Abundant Leadership Speaking).

Baskin, as "PsyWrn Simone", explores Black experience.

February is Black History Month and in Windsor Essex we are proud to have played a pivotal role in assisting many black slaves escaping slavery in the United States and finding freedom here on Canadian soil. For many American slaves Windsor Essex offered what they yearned for most – a new life of freedom.  Our region played a proud and pivotal role in the Underground Railroad Movement, helping thousands escape the brutality of slavery. The Underground Railroad was not a railroad nor was it u...

Staff Last modified: Monday, May 05, 2014 Who was Slint? “Teenagers who thought about music differently than other people did,” is one fan’s simple description of the game-changing quartet from Louisville, Ky. The band only made two enigmatic records in the late ’80s and broke up before the second one, “Spiderland,” was released; their legend started growing immediately. As the years passed, the love for that strange, intense, abstract “rock” record seemed to grow exponentially....