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Music from all over the world floods into New York City year round, but especially in summertime. That?s when outdoor stages supplement clubs and theaters, and free concert series can introduce audiences to music with lower commercial profiles.

This summer?s world music concerts include return visits by superstars who will have expatriate fans singing along with hits, like the Brazilian songwriter Carlinhos Brown, who is at the Nokia Theater tonight, and the Mexican rock superstars Caf? Tacuba, at Central Park SummerStage on July 14. And because it seems that everyone wants to be heard in New York City, this summer also brings a rare event like the July 21 SummerStage concert of music by 12 acts from Sudan, which is now torn by civil war and genocide.

Not so long ago, world music ? the usefully vague marketing category, not the music itself ? romanced isolation. A new album or a concert promised a rare chance to share what people half a world away were dancing to all night long, or a ceremony formerly closed to outsiders or sounds shaped through generations of a particular family or a village. Of course, the fact that the music had traveled at all was the beginning of the end of that isolation, for both the musicians and their new audiences.

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Local TV stations and newspaper reporters have trailed 18-year-old Patrick

Kisomanga around the Osprey Ridge golf course for the past three days.

He has a story to tell, but it has little to do with why he flew here from

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BUJUMBURA, Burundi - If we need any more proof that life is unfair, it is that subsistence villagers here in Africa will pay with their lives for our refusal to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

When we think of climate change, we tend to focus on Alaskan villages or New Orleans hurricanes. But the people who will suffer the worst will be those living in countries like this, even though they don't contribute at all to global warming.

My win-a-trip journey with a student and teacher has taken us to Burundi, which the World Bank's latest report shows to be the poorest country in the world. People in Burundi have an annual average income of $100, nearly one child in five dies before the age of 5, and life expectancy is 45.

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En un 30 de junio, pero de 1906, nace Anthony Mann, director de

cine estadounidense autor de títulos míticos como, "Horizontes

lejanos" (Bend of the river) (1952), "La caída del imperio romano"

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Note to readers: Nate Fredrickson is a 1987 Crookston Central High School graduate who works as a freelance writer, radio personality and marketing consultant in Fosston. The Times has been sampling his columns each Thursday for a month to determine if his column should become a weekly feature of this page. Email your thoughts to editor@crookstontimes.com or leave a blog at www.crookstontimes.com.In 1733 the great preacher Jonathan Edwards delivered the famous sermon called "Sinners in the hands...

In the hellfire and brimstone sermon the earnest worshiper is given a brief but vivid glimpse of the horrors of that sinister underworld alight with inextinguishable fire. It is precisely why this kind of sermon didn't stick for those of us wh live in the North Country. Hell is warm (I know that's an understatement, but go with me here) and those who settled in the upper Midwest were used to it being cold most of the time. This is why there are more

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