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While booty shaking dances are old hat in this country -- extolled in music videos and practiced to perfection by strippers -- in West African countries such as Guinea, where the ass jiggling Wolosso dance craze has taken hold, it's enough to get you stripped and beaten in the town square. Check out this video for (what I think are) some shots of the Wolosso.

The LA Times has nominated five books in each of nine different categories for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. In the weeks leading up to the Festival of Books where the winners will be announced, LAist will take a quick look at each category and will wax poetic on a few favorites (or least favorites) along the way. Whiteman by Tony D'Souza - D’Souza delivers a memorable journey of ideals, disillusionment and partial...

Most DJs will tell you that their turntables are in fact musical instruments, and they’d certainly have a point. But has any DJ ever taken the instrumental nature of turntables as far as “Sound Artist” Walter Kitundu? A Rochester, Minnesota-born, Tanzania, Africa-raised artist and musician, Kitundu, 33, has become well known for his phonoharps and phonokoras. The instruments are his original inventions, which he constructs in his San Francisco studio, and are best described...