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VIDEO SERIES | Big in the Stans: Central Asia Rock Tour – 6/14

    WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...

VIDEO SERIES | Big in the Stans: Central Asia Rock Tour – 5/14

    WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...

VIDEO SERIES | Big in the Stans: Central Asia Rock Tour – 4/14

    WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...

VIDEO SERIES | Big in the Stans: Central Asia Rock Tour – 3/14

    WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...

VIDEO SERIES | Big in the Stans: Central Asia Rock Tour – 2/14

    WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...

VIDEO SERIES | Big in the Stans: Central Asia Rock Tour – 1/14

    WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...

LITERARY | Brazil: Funk and Controversy in Rio

  MC Leonardo in the offices of APAFUNK, in downtown Rio de Janeiro.     November 2024 / January 2011  |  Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine Written by Samantha Barthelemy, photos by Guilherme Lessa Originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2011.         “Funk still hasn’t happened. When...

LITERARY | Lebanon: Rocking Beirut: A Night Out with Mashrou’ Leila

  DECEMBER 2010  |  LITERARY  |  LEBANON  |  MICHELLE CHAHINE       Truck bombs. Explosions. A popular Prime Minister and a dozen young, anti-Syrian politicians and journalists assassinated. A million Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut in response, ushering the withdrawal of Syrian forces...

Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars perform in Brooklyn, US. Image: DJG.

CULTURE | Sierra Leone: The Healing Power of Music

  November 2024  |  Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine   Story be Black Nature, with Daniel J. Gerstle. Image by DJG. This story was originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (aka HELO) in 2011.         Chill out for a moment, get comfortable, and listen to this seductive...

VIDEO | Afghanistan: Turn it Up in Central Asia

October 2011  |  Culture  |  An HB collaborative short video Humanitarian Bazaar in cooperation with Combat Comms and Sound Central Festival   In fall 2011, Afghanistan's first four rock bands--Morcha, Kabul Dreams, District Unknown, and White Page, together with Travis Beard and his...