L’Enfance Rouge: Songs of the Arab Spring

Please note that L'Enfance Rouge's lead singer, Francois R. Cambuzat, will be playing as L'Enfant Rouge.

Freedom was theirs—you could literally hear it. French-Italian avant-rock trio L’Enfance Rouge (which means ‘The Red Childhood’ in English) listened intently to those lyrics of liberation, shouted out by their Tunisian collaborators and friends. The post-revolutionary era was only two months old upon Rouge’s arrival in the capital of Tunis last year, and the expats eagerly soaked up songs of the Arab Spring.

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Own Original Graffiti, Give a Kid a Helping Hand

Documentary director Lance Crayon just premiered his new film, Spray Paint Beijing, the first doc to cover Beijing's vibrant street art scene. But beyond that, Crayon also cares to help connect local graffiti artists with the community. Read on to see how you can own an original work of graffiti art (on a canvas, not your wall), and help out kids whose parents are in jail.

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