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A new documentary film, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, clears up some of the mystery around the remarkable biracial woman born Marian Elliott. The film, directed by Paul Sng and Celeste Bell, Poly’s daughter, is also a welcome reminder of the power of X Ray Spex and London punk scene to shape cultural conversations. It arrives soon after the appearance of Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story, co-authored by Bell and Zoë Howe. Neither portrait flinches from the darker aspects of Poly Styrene’s stru...

The afterglow of this communion extends into the final, much-anticipated delight: a “cultural boat ride” promising “ten thousand years of Indian Culture in ten minutes.” This air-conditioned funfair ride begins, appropriately enough, on the mythic “banks of the Saraswati” (a now unknown or extinct river celebrated in the Vedas) festooned with tableaux of ten-thousand-year-old “Vedic” agriculture, Vedic universities, Vedic bazaars, Vedic elections and even the “first conference ...

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(RNS) — Religious practices go through change and transformation.

George Harrison wrote a heartbreaking song while his mother, Louise, was dying in the hospital in 1970. It's one of George's saddest songs.

For the first time in over 20 years, OUSA’s famous $4 lunches will no longer be served by the Hare Krishna community. This is after Jane Beecroft, known as the “lunch lady” of the Hare Krishnas, announced her retirement in February.  South Dunedin restaurant Tandooree

California’s spiraling housing crisis is often understood through the lens of its big cities. But in rural Del Norte County, on California's northwest tip, housing people in precarious situations presents different challenges. Here's how one approach is showing promise.

On a rainy winter morning, Jamie Hayden stopped in to visit with Diane Timothio. A case manager in Del Norte County on California's remote northern coast, Hayden comes by often, sometimes staying for hours, to work with Timothio.

In cities such as Los Angeles, the number of people living unsheltered can overwhelm programs such as Project Homekey. Not so in Del Norte County.

Opinion - Watching the anti-mandate protests in Wellington over the past week, it has been impossible to ignore similarities to 1960s and '70s counterculture. But there are also some notable differences, Nick Bollinger writes.