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Wongduean Udomdechawet smiles when she talks about the craft of creating the tie-dyed silk woven cloth, known as mudmee.

Making her eyes look larger with eyeshadow and liner, and photo-shopping her skin with foundation, Nikkie de Jager applies cosmetics on only half of her face, leaving the other half naturally bare. Shared on YouTube, the viral video shows the…

On more than one occasion over the past several decades, ML Usni Pramoj has said to me: “I’m an amateur. I never forget that. That’s why I’ve never taken a single satang for a musical performance.”

New Orleans, as the crucible of jazz, has a unique musical heritage. The Big Easy, as the port city is often called, has always been a melting pot of cultures. Here Spanish and French colonists mixed with French Acadians, Irish…