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Panamanians and Soccer

I’m sure that the bond between a fan and his national team, regardless of nationality, is just as strong, but like many things about us at the moment, Panama’s soccer team is in a state of mediocrity that is only so because of sheer sloth, and it makes things even more frustrating for the fan. Ask a Panamanian that follows the team, any of them, what it’s like to see their team play beautifully to the point of making them proud, only to have them succumb at the last minute and ruin all the good will they garner from the fans by playing well. Ask them, and you’ll witness a withered soccer soul stare back at you as if Shang Tsung had made a happy hour out of its carcass.

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Señor Loop – MCMLXXXII

Their first record in over four years, Panama-based alternative rock band Señor Loop returns with a rock-solid album full of emotion, force and resolution wrapped in an onslaught of sonic resolve: “MCMLXXXII” is the name of said album, and to listen to is is to walk down a landscape of Panamanian history’s past, present and future, woven together with sounds that entice and hypnotize. “MCMLXXXII” is, on almost every level, an evolutionary progression from the band’s previous album, “Madretambor.”

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Panamanians and Marijuana

Ahh, yes. Marijuana. Pot. Reefer. Cannabis. Ganja. A misunderstood natural drug that has been with humanity ever since we first came about, no matter what you believe in. Whether our origins come from monkeys, a big bang, a celestial being with self-grooming issues or space aliens, one thing’s for sure: marijuana will make us think [...]

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Panama Jazz Festival – Meeting Stanley Jordan

I was at the production office of the 2008 Panama Jazz Festival on a sunny Friday morning getting stuff done with Yamile, putting out fires that often came throughout the course of the week we worked there, when a gentle young man, tall as a lamp post and seemingly fragile, sat down next to me [...]

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Luba Shumeyko

I know you guys like this girl, so I went out of my way to do some research on her. You’d be amazed how many people search for Luba on this here site but aside from the one post where I have some pictures of her up, there’s not much else… until now. Behold, ladies [...]

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