Entertainment

Portland/ retire

  In the music video that kicks off “Portlandia,” a new comedy series making its debut Jan. 21 on IFC, Fred Armisen walks the streets of Portland, Ore., singing to a flat, synthesized soundtrack and praising [Portland] as a flannel-clad slacker’s paradise where “young people go to retire."      [Italics added.] See article at: New York [...]

2011-04-19T17:27:37-05:00Climate, Demographics, Entertainment, Geography, Humor, Media, Music, North America, QUOTES, Urban Living|
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Nollywood

the name of the Nigerian film industry. It is hard to avoid Nigerian films in Africa. Public buses show them, as do many restaurants and hotels. Nollywood, as the business is known, churns out about 50 full-length features a week, making it the world’s second most prolific film industry after India’s Bollywood… . Only the [...]

2011-01-27T01:55:14-06:00Africa, Entertainment, Entrepreneurship, Film, Poverty, WORDS|
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