Riding the froth of beer and grub sales, McMenamins converted a public elementary school and a 1914 dancehall in Portland in 1997.

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He said his idols when growing up were not British or American, but Jamaican dancehall acts like Bounty Killer, Beenie Man and Sean Paul.

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Dancehall superstar Sean Paul is best known for his maddeningly catchy hooks, his distinctive Jamaican lilt and ever-changing hairstyles that have run the gamut from cornrows to his current mohawk.

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In order to accommodate all the people clamoring to watch the trial, proceedings were held in the Saal des Atlantiks, a dancehall popular for its swinging music, fashionably known as Stimmung und Schwung.

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The festival peaks on Whitsunday (19 May) with a street parade, which features colourful dance groups from Korea and Japan, trucks blaring music from Brazil and Angola, plus Irish folk, Jamaican dancehall, Caribbean soca and more.

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Now, good news from the edge of the remote Badlands: Merrill can breathe easy, having found the right person to preserve Scenic, itself a picture-perfect relic of the Old West, complete with an old-fashioned saloon, dancehall, and two jail houses.

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