In Addis Ababa,Michael Kors Bags, Courtney Pine meets some of the veterans of the Swinging Addis golden age of Ethiopian jazz, including Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete - the 'Ethiopian Elvis'. These Ethiopian heroes, now in their 70s, are like the Buena Vista Social Club stars of their country.

"Oh sure, I got work - but I played a different sort of Indian," he said with a chuckle. In the 1950s, Mr. Pallana was cast in such films as Broken Arrow, with Jimmy Stewart, and Viva Zapata, with Marlon Brando.

At the corner of Meyers Street and Oak Lane, across from the DART maintenance depot in South Dallas-Fair Park, a dilapidated apartment building needs urgent attention. Its owner, Hailu Ejigu, is a partner with the city in the Bexar Street Village project. But his apartment building is plagued with mold, leaky pipes, rat holes, exposed wiring, uneven floors and a dangerously deteriorated parking lot. To read more about Ejigu, visit tinyurl.com/ejigu.

She urged young people to be patient as reforms take hold, noting that economic progress often takes much longer than political change.

The dandy is alive and well, and on city streets around the world. But what does it mean to be a dandy these days?