Avarus (masculine) or Avara (feminine) is a Latin adjective meaning "greedy, covetous" and may refer to:
Avara, a 1996 computer action game made by Ambrosia Software for the Apple MacintoshAvarus (Finnish band), a psych folk band from Tampere, FinlandMatthew Avara, currently mayor of Pascagoula, Mississippi (U.S.)For the Roman term for a northern cape in Portugal, see Cape Santo André.
Jonna Karanka, Merja Kokkonen and Laura Naukkarinen are the Macbeth-ian witches of Finland's experimental folk scene. And just as Shakespeare's crones prophesied Macbeth's fate, these magical and maudlin multi-instrumentalists sound like seers and soothsayers of a new hierarchy of music, rising from out of the nature and nurture of everyday life. Freakier than most any folk in the American underground, the trio has developed a musical syntax all their own. As soloists, they perform and record… more »
