100 Bernos Ethiopian Millennium Tshirts on sale! We talked and talked about it; we teased you and annoyed you. Enough, it’s here! When we said only 100 Millennium T-shirts, the Bernos Blog and our email inbox was bombarded questioning ‘why.’ I think we have answered it for the most part, but we would like to [...]
Published by April 18th, 2007 in Bernos and Noteworthy.Archive for the 'Noteworthy' Category
Ethiopian artists are generally in a consensus. They would argue about the level of support the Ethiopian community provides the arts. Be it visual or music; most Ethiopian artists are apt to complain about it. In the same manner, plenty Ethiopian professional service providers protest, that the fellow Ethiopian consumer neglect Ethiopian owned businesses. At [...]
Published by January 24th, 2007 in Noteworthy.Long ago before Bernos was alive, I used to kick it at Abesha and before that Seleda. Since Abesha is down and seems like it won’t come back, I’m have made some modification for my article on the Abesha webzine. I do miss that Seleda. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, [...]
Published by October 25th, 2006 in Noteworthy.The name Bernos comes from the Arabic word burnous/burnoose for one-pieced cloak like clothing worn my Arabs. The Arabs, who migrated to northern Africa and the Berbers take on this, was to make one of wool, a lot warmer than the Middle Eastern version. Burnous is worn throughout Northwestern Africa especially in Burkina Faso; its [...]
Published by October 12th, 2006 in History and Noteworthy.I happened to see 3 different interviews with President Clinton over the past week. He is promoting the Clinton Global Initiative which I happened to support coldheartedly. There was a scene in a movie called 'As Good As It Gets' in which a woman character comes to Jack Nicholson, who is playing an obsessive compulsive [...]
Published by September 24th, 2006 in Help and Noteworthy.
