Volume 15, Number 8
April 20, 2009

culture preview

Cool Internet sites

Canopy Tower, Panama - Day One
http://10000birds.com/canopy-tower-panama-day-one.htm

A veteran birder's wonderful photographic record of a day at one of the world's greatest spots to watch birds.

Cheepnis - Zappa Plays Zappa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q425T92-s_A


Dweezil Zappa and a very tight band play one of his father Frank Zappa's classics. If you get into movies that feature flying reptiles with radioactive breath, Mexican vampires or cannibal women from the Avocado Jungle of Death, the subject matter of this song is right up your alley.

El circo por la Presidencia - El Emperador
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOUqFqB7Flo


The radical construction worker who becomes a reguesero when his day job is over weighs in on this year's presidential election options.

Eres Mi Canción - Rubén Blades & Osvaldo Ayala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZvotQS8qDU


Oh, didn't you know? Panama's tourism minister may have become famous as a salsa pioneer, then as an actor, but he also does musica tipica.

Meet Me Under the Ceiba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_NDaCYwJA&feature=player_embedded


Winner of the 2007 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize for Best Novel, by Silvio Sirias, whose columns appear in The Panama News and whose skills rub off on his students at the Balboa Academy. This is the video trailer for a book that you will want to read.

The Ricky Gervais Guide to the English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeBlGiqSlc8&feature=player_embedded

It starts out sensible, and gets infinitely worse....

She's a witch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g&feature=related


A classic tale from The Annals of The Law, as told by Monty Python's Flying Circus and dedicated to Bosco Vallarino, the Tribunal Electoral and Opus Dei.


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