The Ragtime Cancellation That Lasted Twelve Hours

Good Morning,Every hour in Veracruz, the clock tower plays the original “La Bamba,” three centuries older than Ritchie Valens’ hit. Son jarocho, the genre behind it, was dismissed in the 1970s as “the music of drunken people”; now its fandangos draw dancers from Tokyo to Los Angeles, summed up in one word, convivencia — alive together (NPR). In Melbourne, Charles Lai has spent a decade running a free calendar of gallery openings, turning down offers to let gal