Archive for September, 2002

Gentrification Ahoy

Siem Reap has officially arrived. We have not only one but two bookshops: Lazy Mango and Paper Tiger. Spent part of last Sunday reading Andrew Vachss' Dead and Gone' . Funny to read a detective novel set in Portland (where I lived, for three years) that even includes a Khmer character, ...

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For our friends in Southern California, try the Rithy Panh Film Festival, at Cal State Long Beach. October 11-13. It's really a crime that Cambodia is awash in pirated Hollywood product, while these films are difficult to find in the country they depict so well.

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Motodop 101

motorcycle + doubler (french) = motodop. The omnipresence of the motodop is perhaps one of the more defining characteristics of Cambodia. Sitting on every corner, cruising every street, the uniform is one of baseball cap and dress shirt (not tucked in). If you walk down a street in almost any ...

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This & That @ Sovanna Phum

SOVANNA PHUM presents Folk and Classiscal Khmer Dance Friday 6 September 2002 at 7.30 P.M. Entrance fee 5 U$ No. 111a Street 360 (corner St 105) Boeung Kang Kong III, Phnom Penh - HP 012 84 60 20 or 012 857 437- e-mail: art@sovannaphum.com Show of orphaned children living in the CCPSO center Song, Dance, Theatre, ...

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