India is floored by homecoming of The Great Khali: The return of The Great Khali - a 7ft 3in (2.21m), 30st (190kg) professional wrestler - to his native India from the United States where he plies his trade, has created a level of hysteria usually reserved for Bollywood idols and cricketing heroes. [Times]
Bird-watcher: Every weekday for the past twenty-seven years, a long-in-the-tooth history major named Phil Schaap has hosted a morning program on WKCR, Columbia University’s radio station, called “Bird Flight,” which places a degree of attention on the music of the bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker that is so obsessive, so ardent and detailed, that Schaap frequently sounds like a mad Talmudic scholar who has decided that the laws of humankind reside not in the ancient Babylonian tractates but in alternate takes of “Moose the Mooche” and “Swedish Schnapps.” [New Yorker]
The last ‘Parandero’: Troubadour Nabor has kept alive the ‘paranda’ sound – Spanish guitar backed by local instruments and a West African beat – for decades in his Belize village and through recordings. [CSM]
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