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Monday morning, this Gene McDaniels/Eddie Harris song seems more and more relevant every day. Here’s the great Nellie McKay from a performance just last month giving it her all.
Thanks to YouTuber Monks Jazz Club
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Minuteman Park
Concord, Massachusetts
The twists and turns of the last three years add up to several lifetimes. But somehow, with all of Covid’s initial attendant panic, fear and isolation, and the major film studios shut down, filmmaker and writer Peter Hedges decided to make a film during the very heart of the pandemic. The result was a unique film project called The Same Storm, the interlocking stories of some two dozen characters facing life as the world turned upside down. I was very happy to be talking with the creator of The Same Storm, Peter Hedges.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with director Peter Hedges as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program on WBAI-FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
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Gloucester, Massachusetts
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Mary Spender’s excellent version of the Eagles song “Take It Easy.” Rhett Shull accompanying on slide guitar.
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The great comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber adapted their taxi cab routine as the occasion warranted. Here they are celebrating New Years. IMO, they had the best timing of any comedy pair since Abbott and Costello.
Thanks to YouTuber dentelTV2
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Roslindale, Massachusetts
Monday morning, Cab Calloway “keeps you groovy 24 hours a day.”
Marie Bryant is Calloway’s dance partner here.
Thanks to YouTuber TheHideHoMan
Friendly tourist town parking sign. Kudos to the Chamber of Commerce.
Rockport, Massachusetts
As wars rage all around us, one war, WW II, still stands as the exemplar for the Good War. But is that a useful or accurate designation? And if not, why does that view still have such an outsized influence in the national discourse? I spoke with David Swanson who has written a book called Leaving World War II Behind which challenges the notion of WWII as the Good War.
Click on the grey triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with David Swanson on the Arts Express radio program on Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
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Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Kings Highway,
Brooklyn, New York
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Monday morning, Alexandr Misko wows with this next-level guitar playing of the George Michael hit.
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Thanks to YouTuber Laugh Society
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Animator, Director, Artist, Scapegoat Nina Paley recently completed her Apocalypse Animated project–that is, her unique animations (illuminations?) as applied to the Book of Revelations. She then took the animations and repurposed them to the short three minute video above.
See the whole project at https://apocalypseanimated.com/
And you can hear an interview I did years ago with Ms. Paley here
** Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War: a special extended conversation with veteran union UAW organizer and hellraiser, Jon Melrod
**Little Amal Comes to Brooklyn: Little Amal is a 10-year-old refugee from Syria. She is also a 12-foot puppet who has traveled 5,000 miles across Turkey and Europe and now to Brooklyn, in search of her mother. A photo essay.
** Dennis Broe on Robert Colescott’s Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist paintings
and more!
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Monday morning, Josh, Carson, Reina, and Toni counting flowers on the wall, Statler Brothers style.
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Chrystie Street,
New York, New York
Fewer than 10 years ago, former NSA employee Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the US government’s illegal, unconstitutional, worldwide warrantless surveillance. Throughout history, brave whistleblowers have risked their lives and livelihoods for what they considered the greater good. But what is the cost these whistle blowers pay, and more importantly, how do the successful whistleblowers succeed?
I was happy to talk with author Tim Schwartz who has written a how-to guide for would-be whistle-blowers, uncovering many of the traps and missteps one can fall into, A Public Service: Whistleblowing, Disclosure, and Anonymity.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear the conversation with Tim Schwartz as broadcast today on the Arts Express program on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
