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The Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 7/19/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits

SPACE IS THE PLACE

Bask in the light of Shabazz Palaces

UNITED NATIONS

Take a sonic trip around the planet

A Whisper to a Roar

Spring Guide 2012: Granta Eyes the African Short Story

Continental rift

Live: African Guitar Superstars Bring The Fireworks To BB King's

Quoc Pham​ "Acoustic Africa" featuring Haibib Koite, Oliver Mtikudzi and Afel Boucoum BB King Blues Club Wednesday, April 6 Better than: Buying a plane ticket to Mali. Western listeners (that's us, if you were wondering) often need comparisons to dig deeper into "world music." If that's w ... More >>

AFRICAN BEAT

Bring your vuvuzelas to Prospect Park

'Wierd Presents Solvent'

War of Words Heats Up Over Prokhorov's Zimbabwegate

​It's Day Three of the Great Zimbabwe Flap, and the rhetoric over a New Jersey Congressman's challenge to Russian bazillionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's purchase of the Nets is heating up. Prokhorov fired back at Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-My-Constituents-Don't-Want-to-Drive-Through-Two-Tunnels-to-W ... More >>

Sanction-busting Investigation Could Threaten Nets Deal, Atlantic Yards

​Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ) tells the Post that he's requesting a Treasury Department investigation to see if Mikhail Prokhorov, the russian investor who's trying to buy stakes in both the Nets and the planned Nets Arena in Brooklyn, has violated Bush-era sanctions against doing business wi ... More >>

Super Secret 'Nduja Hits the Sausage Big Time; Food TV Is Prime Time's Darling

​Tabla is among a number of restaurants using psychological principles to overhaul their menus, such as dropping the dollar sign from prices or naming a dish after the chef's mom. [NY Times] 2009 was the year 'nduja, the spicy smoked meat with a cult following, became the "Lady Gaga of pork ... More >>

Tonight! Monday

A long weekend brings a slow Monday. For the Wallflowers at Irving Plaza, accept Greil Marcus's digestion of God Says Nothing Back, which could describe most any of the band's songs: "With a stoic backbeat and Jakob Dylan's fatalistic way of biting off his words, this is the sound of someone thinki ... More >>

MIX MASTERS

The original hip-hop band reunites

Haunting, Defiant Dispatches from Zimbabwe's Chiwoniso

Zimbabwe's Slow-Motion Horror Show

Does a nation's sovereignty allow it to destroy its own people?

Nora Chipaumire Storms the Barricades

Revisiting a war-torn youth

Robert Mugabe Meets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

AIDS: The Agony of Africa

Part 1: The Virus Creates a Generation of Orphans

Watching the Defective

What the foreign press really thinks of us (hint: it's not all kittens and rainbows)

Whodunit: The British Consulate Bomb

Do-Gooders Do Good

The most commendable political compilation of a watershed year for official liberalism

It Takes a Village to Re-Create Africa in Brooklyn—Chuck Davis Does It Again

Letters

New York City's Dance Menu Serves Up Vivid Global Variety

Letters

U.S. Black Leaders Confront Mugabe

Policemen's Feet on Demonstrators' Heads

Letters

Where Is Nelson Mandela?

Black U.S. Leaders Also Silent

Terrorizing the Press

'Could I Be Bombed? Or Be Thrown Behind Bars?'

Letters

Any Anti-Mugabe Protesters Here?

Zimbabwe Cleared by United Nations

Mugabe's Victims: Mostly Black

Charles Barron Calls It 'One of the Most Stable Countries in Africa'

In Through the Out Door

North Africa's Nomads, Zimbabwe's ZANU, Chad's Children

Hell Is a Real Place

Zimbabwe: Anyone in America Give a Damn?

Land of Fear, Rape, and Hunger

The City Council Welcomes a Dictator

Spreading the Net

ICALL'EMEZISEE'M

Fleeing the Tatters

Voice of Zimbabwe Struggle Thomas Mapfumo Escapes to Oregon

Turning Point

The International AIDS Conference Makes a Commitment to Saving Third-World Lives

Sports

Voice Writer Wins Pulitzer

International Reporting Prize Goes to Schoofs AIDS Series

Part 5: Death and the Second Sex

Part 3: Africa Responds

Bereft of medicine and money, traditional cultures mobilize in a new way.

Part 1: The Virus Creates a Generation of Orphans

'Yan Daudu' and Proud

Same-Sex Bonds Take Many Forms In Africa Today

Gay Is Global

Three decades after Stonewall the movement it spawned has become a worldwide symbol of freedom

PEN Is Mightier With the Net

E-mail From Jail: Imprisoned Writers Get a Boost From Online Activism

It's the Shit