@ TEMPLE BAR
SAT | NOV 3

The members of Tinariwen play Saharan desert blues like they invented them, and as far as this world music neophyte knows, maybe they did . . . though the music itself sounds like it comes from a time and place much older than anything our American innovators knew about. “World [...]

‘Darfur Now’ attempts to coax apathetic viewers into action

Darfur Now is a slick, almost uncomfortably optimistic documentary about the human catastrophe currently taking place in western Sudan. It shies away from the dramatic “this is what a genocide looks like” documentation that made the earlier The Devil Came on Horseback so chilling, preferring to envision [...]