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Music: Soothing Dwele's soulful sounds lure listeners
"You Won't be Lonely" and "Brandi," which features hip-hop Urbanites Slum Village, fans would definitely like the soul-sounding album.
After coming to the scene in 1998, neo-soul singer and song writer Andwele "Dwele" Gardner has crooned his way into the world of talented singers. The Detroit native's urbanite sounds and poetic lyrics give fans the fresh-on-the scene crooner who stepped out with his first album, "Subject."
Dwele shows maturity in his voice in songs like "Vain," which is about a two-timing woman. He tempts fans through a clean, smooth falsetto in "Open Your Eyes," a Bobby Caldwell oldie, and "I'm Cheatin."
Dwele's new album, "Sketches of a Man," offers fans a smooth sound of melodies and tempos. Dwele's sedate voice lures listeners into an ambiance of mellow lyrics that tells stories like in "Five Dolla Mic."
The at-heart jazz and soul sophisticate shows his talent by experimenting with different instruments throughout the album. He plays showcases his piano skills in "I'm Sorry (Wake the Musical Baby)" and gives a sample of the bass in "Love Ultra."
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—Brieun Scott
Books: 'Hidden' reveals needed world changes
The Hidden Connections - A Science for Sustainable Living by Fritjof Capra
This book is not light reading. Capra connects global capitalism with the origins of life, and even includes a chapter on spirituality. He proposes that life cannot continue unless we begin practicing sustainability especially within businesses and advertising. Using an idea called complex theory, Capra explains that our work environments mimic processes in nature, and the current methods of massproduction and marketing does not allow for the connectivity of life that we need to survive.
Capra says that, "As a living organism responds to environmental influences with structural changes, these changes will n turn alter its future behavior. Living structure is always a record of prior development." Because a living organism can respond to its environment,
living things always learn and can change their behavior. Thus, if humans and commerce start living and working differently, Man and Earth can live in paralleled peace.
Skinheads are scooter-loving beer drinkers. Not racists. The members of Lawrence and Kansas City scooter clubs defend their allegiance to Vespas and the brotherhood, and why they'll chase skirts and be skins until the day they die.
—Gretchen Gier
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Listen to an NBA Draft preview podcast with former KU and NBA player Bud Stallworth.
Kansas football coach Mark Mangino and the rest of his coaching staff will move into the $33 million Anderson Family Football Complex this week. The athletics department estimated that the football facility was one of the five nicest in the nation.The 80,000 square-foot building boasts a number of luxuries for the football team.
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