Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…
. . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.
Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”
Back in 1973, country music legend Johnny Cash gave his daughter Roseanne a list of 100 songs he considered essential. Now, music critic Michael Streissguth takes us behind the scenes.
Margaret Atwood tells Steve Paulson that it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money.
Matt Taibbi, conributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, talks with Anne Strainchamps about political audacity, voter memory and the scandalous behavior of some defense contractors in Iraq.
Maryam Eskandari is a mosque architect and founder of MIIM Designs. She say most non-Muslims think designing a mosque is full of rules. But it’s not. She told Charles Monroe-Kane that the only rule is you have to point out the direction to Mecca. This is called the marabji.
Steve Paulson introduces us to Mark Oliver Everett, better known as "E" - lead singer of the Eels, and son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds.
John Stilgoe tells Jim Fleming that people would discover all sorts of new things if they would walk or ride a bicycle and leave the car at home.
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