Newport Folk Festival: 50 Years Later

by JOEL ROSE
All Things Considered
National Public Radio
July 30, 2010

The breakout star of the first Newport Folk Festival was an 18-year-old singer with dark eyes and long black hair. She wasn't even listed on the official program. Her name: Joan Baez...

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The Exotic Sound Of Steve Tibbetts

National Public Radio
July, 2010

Natural Causes, the new album from guitarist Steve Tibbetts, features his longtime collaborator Marc Anderson on gongs, steel drums and exotic percussion. For his part, Tibbetts plays a 12-string Martin guitar — the model played by Arlo Guthrie, Roger McGuinn, Paul Simon and Leo Kottke.

When Tibbetts plays, he creates an exotic sound that conjures images of India. He tells Liane Hansen he went to a concert in St. Paul, Minn., by Indian performer Sultan Khan that had a huge impact on his music. Khan plays a sarangi, a stringed instrument common in Indian classical music...

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'Babies': Plenty Of Cuteness, Plus An Insight Or Two

by LINDA HOLMES
National Public Radio
Arts & Life
May 14, 2010

...Though you see them only tangentially, it's obvious that all these parents love their kids; Babies passes judgment on none of them, and it doesn't specifically argue nature vs. nurture or more supervision vs. less. It just gets down on the ground and looks at some of the many roads babies can travel from birth to walking and talking. And if it has a thesis, it's that there are lots of ways to get to some of the same destinations...

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Double Dutch: From Street Game To Sport

by Beth Fertig
Weekend Edition Sunday
April 25, 2010
National Public Radio

You've probably seen it in school yards -- kids doing fancy jumps between two moving ropes. Double Dutch is often considered a street game associated mostly with black girls.

But there are serious competitions for double Dutch. And it's now a varsity sport in New York City...

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Zeit Geist

Films For Action

Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research. Important Author Note: It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.

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With Avatar Poised to Win Big at the Oscars, James Cameron Should Help Some Na’vi Right Here on Earth

The Indypendent
By Francesca Fiorentini
February 26, 2010

....Put the money made from the blockbuster where it’s needed most: into indigenous communities struggling for the conservation of their land and livelihood...

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Florida Marlins stadium going green

The builders of the Florida Marlins stadium are trying to get recognition for their environmental efforts.

Miami Herald
January 19, 2009

By TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA
tolorunnipa@MiamiHerald.com
At the new Florida Marlins stadium's construction site, virtually all waste is recycled, most building materials are made locally and pieces of old concrete from the demolished Orange Bowl are repurposed into support beams...

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