Myths affect how we view the world around us. Find out what the three major myths about human nature are and why we shouldn’t accept them as common sense.
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Somalian world music star, K'Naan, reflects candidly on human indifference to suffering.
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Myranda Escamilla may not know exactly why she collages animal skulls, but she has plenty to say about life, death, and our culture’s disconnect from the wild.
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The oil paintings of George W. Bush demonstrate there are plenty of reasons to engage in creative activity that has no possibility of being professionalized and won’t receive external validation.
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After the birth of her autistic child prevents a Korean-American woman from going to church, she beings a spiritual journey from Christian to pantheist.
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For one young woman, a post-college job as holiday help at Barnes & Noble means selling loyalty, slinging deals, getting screwed, and getting even.
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Pieces of the Berlin Wall have been displayed in a variety of settings including a Las Vegas bathroom and the LA strip. These exhibitions, however, don’t seem to mention Ronald Reagan.
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Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk of Calgary Canadians are set to release their Over Land and Sea pop-folk album this April.
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“War doesn’t occur in a vacuum,” writes J.L. Powers in her introduction to That Mad Game, a powerful collection of narratives capturing the lives of children in warzones. “It occurs because of the stories we tell ourselves about the world we live in or the world we want to live in.”
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Sharp, darkly humorous political thriller about Chile’s 1989 referendum on the leadership of Augusto Pinochet, filmmaker Pablo Larrain shows how the superficial tools of popular mass media—rainbows, catchy jingles, and celebrity endorsements—upended an autocracy
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A pair of professors at the University of Rochester aim to change our perception of urban nature and help us better understand the evolution of our cities with a new smart phone app called Indeterminate Hikes (IH+).
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Long Distance Revolutionary chronicles the life of inmate and political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal and the "Mumia rule" which, because of him, prevents prohibits inmate from conducting recorded interviews.
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Punk is not simply a musical style or fashion aesthetic; punk is a look in the eye. The Pogues proved this without a doubt upon forming back in 1982. Fronted by Shane Macgowan—in songwriting, singing, and swaggering antics—the Pogues often outdid the Sex Pistols in their excesses.
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A Killer’s Dream, Rachel Brooke's recent effort, is simultaneously spooky, dark, and danceable. While her voice is smooth and warm, backing band Viva LeVox supports her with their respective feed standing in piles of blues, heart-wrenching honky tonk, rock and roll, and old-time jazz.
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The story behind the Ghetto Brothers street gang and their legendary 1972 album Power-Fuerza, now widely available for the first time, is almost too incredible to believe. Founded by brothers Benjy, Robert, and Victor Melendez, the Ghetto Brothers was a unique kind of organization, part activist collective, part rock band, part youth gang that emerged in South Bronx in the mid-1960s.
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Cemeteries first official album, solo project by Kyle Reigle, creates a soundscape with mellow percussions are layered with synth and guitar and ethereal vocals.
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Moving beyond a singular immigrant identity and the hangover of Orientalism, young west-coast Arab Americans move toward leftist Arab movement and Muslim student activist groups.
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So much of the landscape of American music can trace its roots back to the coal mines, farms and mountain communities of Kentucky. A study of contemporary musicians reveals the importance of Appalachia’s roots music to the creation and performance of music in America today.
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Paul Kivel offers a framework for understanding institutional racism. It provides practical suggestions, tools, examples and advice on how white people can intervene in interpersonal and organizational situations to promote social justice
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Starhawk's comprehensive guide on managing collaborative groups with bottom-up leadership and shared power.
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In "Creating Wealth", co-authors Gwendolyn Hallsmith & Bernard Lietaer demonstrate how a healthy society can be attained through developing new systems of exchange.
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While our culture still glorifies the stereotypical "tough guy," there are indications that traditional masculinity is slowly being redefined. That's good news for everyone, especially men.
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Most of us think of dolls as children's playthings, but they have a story to tell about race, culture, heritage, and history.
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In "College Without High School", Blake Boles shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by pursuing goals through meaningful adventures.
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A daughter of slaves and a son of slave-owners embark on a journey of discovery and healing, finding out that family reunions can confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on.
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Successful aging requires control of one's life, and this generation of seniors -- the baby boomers -- will find this book holds a compelling vision for their future.
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Can a park bench transform the way that people interact in public spaces? Danish artist Jeppe Hein says yes.
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Kenyan blog Nairobi Nights reveals the daily life of prostitutes in Nairobi, and gets the nation talking about its secret sex trade.
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There is a glitter and gold link between bankers and artists. Long before the 2008 financial crisis, both influenced our understanding of time and space through their representations of value.
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Ever since On the Road was published, sporadic attempts to bring it to the screen have come to nothing. Hollywood producers evidently saw the book's lack of a storyline with a limiting three-act structure as a drawback. By the time Jack wrote On the Road in 1951, after five years of false starts, he was already in rebellion against conventional storytelling.
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A Latina gentrifer in San Francisco’s Mission District discusses becoming part of her community rather than conquering it.
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Thomas Frank wonders what’s so vibrant about cultural vibrancy, and posits that “vibrant” is the creative class’ code for urban gentrification.
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By placing the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of U.S. history, “A Disability History of the United States” fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past.
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In a city built on a landfill in Paraguay, residents have transformed trash into a Recycled Orchestra.
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I’ve come to learn that my Chinese book, Be Yourself, actually applies to the
country at large. The development of a social system for mankind is
a work in progress. Sure China
can learn things from other societies. But clearly, it must Be Itself. If it
loses the centuries upon centuries of soul, the world loses.
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Reflections on rock music festivals take us from a disappointing Goose Lake Music Festival to permanent hearing loss in New Orleans.
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With Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, Sony/Legacy has now compiled
nearly 60 percent of the Man In Black’s work, covering more than 30 years and
60 CD's worth of Cash’s music.
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There are so many people dealing with fundamental challenges in their
lives at the moment: food, shelter, clean water, etc. These are things
that are not debatable or points of policy; they are human needs.
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A primer on Halloween, the witch's new year.
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On its latest effort, Bend Beyond, the prolific band Woods has created an album that is consistently engaging and artistically progressive.
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At an age when most people have left business concerns behind, Wanda Jackson is still working harder than people just getting started. The Queen of Rockabilly has cranked out Unfinished Business, her second album in as many years.
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Counterculture icons have long been co-opted, packaged, and sold. Now, will the language of political resistance be stolen from the mainstream?
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Music Review of Black Moth Super Rainbow's latest album, Cobra Juicy.
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Discover how a flea market unfolds through the eyes of serious collectors and dealers.
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As climate change descends, ads from Perrier and Diesel use global warming to sell more stuff.
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A conversation with 2012 Utne Visionary David Wish, founder and executive director of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides music education for students in disadvantaged public schools.
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This year marks Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday. But what do we still not know about the elusive, contradictory icon?
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In La Push, Washington, the Quileute tribe has experienced a surge of tourism inspired by the Twilight series.
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Sprinkled among gloom-and-doom stories coming out of Detroit is some
unexpected good news: the city’s growing appeal to young people.
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When it comes to African film, even the most avid film watchers’ minds draw a blank. African titles never make the final cut in all-time-great film lists. It’s this void that Dr. Mahir Saul wants to fill, and break stereotypes along the way.
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Since 2002, David Wish’s organization Little Kids Rock has reached more than 200,000 public school kids who otherwise would not have received music education.
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Vertical gardening looks great, helps cities breathe, and could one day feed urban dwellers.
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How the image of Jesus has been made and remade in American history.
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Singing is banned in Hagia Sophia, but Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics figured out a way to make the sacred structure sing again.
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Poignant and innocent, these childhood letters written by Pete Seeger will transport you back to a simpler time.
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Although Animal Collective's new album Centipede Hz may not immediately stand out as exceptional, the
songs have a way of slowly seeping in so that something new is revealed
with each listen.
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An interview with JULIACKS, author of the graphic novel-style zine Swell, which was adapted for theater during the Women Center Stage festival this year.
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Meet Sergio Magaña, a teacher and the bridge that links the ancient Mexica culture with its modern counterpart. His lesson helps define the end of the era of the Fifth Sun and the coming era of the Sixth in the Aztec calendar.
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Singer-songwriter Sean Rowe has a voice that grabs you and lyrics that keep it, and when you listen to the
fantastic collection of songs on his latest album The Salesman and the Shark, you'll wonder what took so long for Rowe
to get noticed.
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One woman’s surreal adventures living off the grid in a New Mexico earthship, preparing for the fall of America.
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America’s Other Audubon combines
the original panels of Genevieve Jones' book Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds
of Ohio with the story of it's tragic but inspiring creation.
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Encouraging civic involvement, and other radical ideas.
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Mixing the drama of a travel adventure with philosophical introspection, The Expedition, Book 1-Dark Waters, Jason Lewis’ account of the first human-powered circumnavigation of the earth is, simply put, an absolutely riveting and inspirational read.
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The Lowbrow Reader founder and editor Jay Ruttenberg shares a list of his ten favorite contemporary zines.
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San Francisco history led American society toward a greater live-and-let-live tolerance, a shared sense of humanity, and an openness to change that’s as relevant today as it was in the 1960s.
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Clare and the Reasons released KR-51 on July 10th via Frog Stand Records.
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We are all connected through music and we must continue to celebrate
this connection, this language that is so important not just to our own
culture, but also to cultures around this fascinating world of ours.
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Future technology predictions by software designers like Microsoft don’t take approaching problems like resource management and the impacts of climate change seriously enough.
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What’s becoming exceptional about America is its silence in the face of slow decline; its complacency in the face of the dissolution of so many things that are critical to a strong, vibrant community of people.
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It’s time for real change in America—difficult, messy, confusing, enthralling change.
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Dr. Mahir Saul has three things on his mind—continents, connections and cinema. He is a one-man tectonic plate, attempting to bind Europe, Asia, North America and Africa into one large land mass through film, using African cinema to shift cultural perceptions.
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JD McPherson honors the roots of R&B with his debut album Signs and Signifiers.
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MV & EE's new album Space Homestead flows like a stream - moving at its own easy pace, turning and tumbling wherever the day takes it, paying little mind to the commotion of modern life surrounding it.
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Utne Reader is pleased to host the world premiere of the music video for “If Wishes Were Gold” by modern string band Sankofa.
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White Arrows released their debut album, Dry Land Is Not A Myth, on June 19th.
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For those who appreciate the preservation of vintage recorded music, Aimer et Perdre: To Love and To Lose - Songs, 1917-1934 is essential.
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While the conflict between a father’s expectations and his
son’s desires is a story as old as the hills, Jennifer Fox has managed to
capture a unique twist on that experience with her documentary film My Reincarnation, which kicks off the 25th
season of POV on PBS.
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Choose your words
carefully. If eyes are the windows to the soul, words are a window to the
brain ... and the heart.
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On Do Things, Dent May muses on existence—from friendship to finding life’s meaning—with plenty of synth and slightly twisted Beach-Boys-style harmony.
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On The Way We Move, Langhorne Slim & The Law weave
their way through folk, Americana and rock, with Slim singing his heart out the
entire way. His scratchy, honest, not-quite-falsetto voice may not be
classically trained, but more importantly it’s emotive.
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This reissue of Paul McCartney's 1971 album Ram contains 8-bonus songs, a few music videos, and a short documentary.
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The success of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and Mystic Lake Casino gives the lie to the controversy over tribal casinos and Indian gaming.
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The Liars sixth full-length album is all about advancing
boundaries. Since the band’s first experimental rock release in 2001, it has been resolute in
defying genre designations, preferring instead to experiment with sound and
rhythm. WIXIW is no exception.
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Emmy Award-winning composer, New York Times best-selling author and noted philanthropist Peter Buffett offers some background on himself and his motivations.
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Hope For Agoldensummer's Life Inside the Body offers a dose of soulful indie-folk.
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Chris Faraone's new book of gonzo reporting explores Occupy's roots, struggles, and future.
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A new film captures the courage and heartbreak of Detroit's dramatic history.
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Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman charts new lyrical and musical territory as Father John Misty on the new album Fear Fun.
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In the sense that a mutt has several genetic influences and not necessarily one that’s dominant, that descriptor is a fitting title for Americana troubadour Cory Branan’s newest album, Mutt.
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Light in the Attic Records illuminates the solo work of Lee Hazlewood from his fertile late '60s era with The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides (1968-71).
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!WAR reminds us of why feminism was cool and that
the fight for equality is not over.
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Controversy over a recent Formula One race in Bahrain illustrates the confused place of politics in sports.
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Listening to Yann Tiersen’s Skyline
feels a bit like catching up with an old friend: though you might have to get reacquainted, chances are you’ll enjoy doing it.
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Cuban, Afrobeat, lounge and ambient-electronic music all meld beautifully to offer the perfect summertime soundtrack on Congo Sanchez's album Volume 1.
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In "Bonsai People - The Vision of Muhammad Yunus," Holly Mosher’s new documentary about microcredit loan pioneer Muhammad Yunus, Mosher uses a clever method to tell her story.
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For decades, Chicano culture has been built on a legacy of soul music, doo wop, zoot suits, and classic lowriders.
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On Cynic's New Year, Horse Feathers
maintains the stark contrast between their uplifting arrangements and dark,
poetic lyrics that have become a trademark of their sound.
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The Alabama Shakes have come out of nowhere to break big, and once you listen to their debut album, Boys & Girls, you'll understand why.
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What's new in Cuban music and how they do it differently than we do.
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On its Illusion EP, Poor Moon offers folky tunes fit for cloudy, slow-moving mornings when a cup of tea beckons to rub off the haze of sleep.
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If there was ever a doubt it was possible to put a youthful, energetic spin on classic country music without being disrespectful, Chuck Mead has buried it on Back at the Quonset Hut.
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Northern Ireland is covered in images of sectarian conflict, but the Belfast Interface Project aims to refashion old murals to reflect a shared future.
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There's plenty of cool outlaw art on the street, but these three artists engage the audience to diagnose community ills and promote healing.
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Cool Nightmare, the follow-up EP to the debut album of Portland-based quintet Radiation City, captures the oddities and eeriness of nighttime gloom with infectious pop hooks and impressive production.
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Justin Townes Earle sings the lyrics of a world-wise, yet still young man on "Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now."
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Polari occupies a special place in the history of gay culture, but the subversive dialect is now endangered.
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When Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York, couldn’t pay the bills, it tapped into the strength of its community with cooperative ownership. Less than a year later, the bookstore is thriving....
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An architect converts the obsolete payphones that line New York’s city sidewalks into tiny public libraries....
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Jeju Island’s remarkable sisterhood of haenyeo, free-diving grandmothers, is on the edge of extinction
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Modern scrimshaw artists are carving edgier images into whale bones.
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“Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail” showcases the depth of devotion of Dead Heads everywhere.
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In the new Batgirl storyline, comic heroine Barbara Gordon was cured of her paraplegia. Much of the disability community was infuriated...
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Photographer Mandy Barker serves up a meal made of very unconventional—and inedible—ingredients...
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“Masters of American Music” showcases legendary jazz artists.
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A documentary about how Detroit turns its desolate lots into vegetable plots.
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Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s new film is at once realistic and humanistic.
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It’s time for baby boomers and retirees to embrace their age.
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A Japanese manga book makes learning about wine tasting fun...
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With all that’s wrong with the world, let’s at least stand up for polite social interaction...
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Dorothy Collective turns your toy box into a hotbed of subversion...
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India’s hugely popular films wage a cultural war on extremism...
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Why Oprah Winfrey understands women and the power of television better than anyone else
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Doug Rickard’s “A New American Picture” captures serendipitous flashes of modern life from Google Street View...
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A night at the museum with pianist Jason Moran and the recently departed Sam Rivers—an avant-garde jazz giant and saint of the seventies loft scene in New York.
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Fast food’s pioneering juggernaut McDonalds is paving its future path with modern ambiance and cosmopolitan menu items. Is the corporation poised to leave Ronald McDonald for dead on the side of the road?...
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For many people, the legendary songstress put Cape Verde on the map...
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An environmental writer takes issue with The Sound of Music, only to be won over by his daughters’ reenactment of its opening scene in their home hills of Nevada, a place decidedly not the green world of the Austrian Alps...
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A Chicago arts program preserves the city’s most famous music...
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Hanni El Khatib's doo-wop-tinted punk rock vibrates with pure adrenaline...
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Blue Hour is a patient, instrumental soundtrack for complex emotions...
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Kiran Ahluwalia weaves global aesthetics into a sensual tapestry...
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A dramatic triptych shows a rural Chinese mining town slowly suffocating...
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Gary Hustwit's latest documentary provides a glimpse into the world of innovative urban design...
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An Iranian marital drama that turns into a complex, class-conscious exploration of Islamic faith...
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Why believing in Santa Claus makes us bad people...
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A new hip hop song re-imagines “F*ck tha Police” for the Smartphone generation...
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Who wants lasers and glitter when you can have a good old stick?...
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A conservative publication encourages its readers to revisit George Orwell’s “A Hanging,” and then re-examine their stance on capital punishment.
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Not homebrewed beer, not coffee, not artisan soda—the geekiest beverage is good old French bubbly...
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Sleek, clutter-free modernist homes are not for everybody. In fact, sometimes they’re not even for modernist architecture writers…
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Troubled Israeli youths get back on track by going off road...
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One person’s sleeptalk is another’s collectible recording...
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An architect embraces the economic slowdown...
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An aspiring actor endures the indignity of auditioning for commercials...
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Photographers restage and recreate iconic works of art by painters from Rembrandt to van Gogh in surprising ways, both paying homage to the artists and offering cultural criticism….
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Seeing the world in black and white (with subtitles)...
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If you’re not familiar with K-Pop, here’s an introduction to one of the most influential music genres on the planet...
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“Made by Hand” is a film series that shows the beautiful, painstaking work that goes into artisanal products...
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A conductor’s unexpected path to Carnegie Hall...
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After more than 150 years, the great American soda fountain still inspires...
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After nearly four years of prolonged economic struggle people were bound to start asking: Where is the music that speaks to my problems? The answer to this question may be closer than you think...
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Sketch artist Gary Bedard drew Occupy protestors each with a dollar bill taped over his or her mouth, saying, “The dollar bill speaks to ending silence on corporate greed”...
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Is there a better way to teach students about war than glorifying and apologizing for violence?...
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Fashion may be a moving target, but one thing is for sure: Naming babies after living politicians and celebrities is out of style...
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Art Director Stephanie
Glaros explains the process behind an Utne Reader illustration…
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Ben Grasso’s spectacular paintings expose the American dream for what it really is: an empty house broken into a million pieces...
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Esko Lönnberg’s avant-garde documentary about obscure Finnish rock band Circle plunges into the deep end of post-modern cinematography...
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There's only one way to get a sense of America’s food waste: dumpster diving!...
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Kenneth Bowser’s documentary portrays Phil Ochs like the hero of a silver-screen Western...
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The siege of Nanking has been chronicled in a number of dramas and documentaries—but none as lush and majestic as this recent Chinese epic...
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Like Dead Can Dance before them, Prince Rama's spiritually tinted music transcends both creed and genre...
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Banjoist Jake Schepps adroitly balances the refined and the rustic on his arrangements of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's folk music...
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Asa's Beautiful Imperfection is a sparkling pop album colored with exciting international touchstones...
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A photo essay from Shannon Galpin of Mountain2Mountain who rode through Afghanistan by bike and motorcycle...
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When times are tough, people tend to seek art out. This piece kicks off a four-part series examining how the art of today's Great Recession compares to that of two crisis moments of the past -- the Great Depression of the 1930s and the 1970s Recession.
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Our country is in need of a reinvigorated discussion about the death penalty. Here’s a cultural to-do list to get you prepared...
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Under the candy-pink veneer of pop culture website The Frisky hides a true feminist heartbeat. Just check out Today’s Lady News….
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After considering 15,000 submissions from more than 190 countries, an online jury chose a logo they hope will become an internationally recognized symbol for human rights...
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Through shows like the highly acclaimed The Wire, Generation Kill, and Treme, David Simon has shown that television can be more than a tool for appeasing audiences and stoking ratings. It can be a medium that forces us to reconsider our world....
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Architect Peter Williams, who knows firsthand that poor housing results in poor health, is on a mission to design healthy homes for impoverished communities in the UK; Cameroon; Saint-Marc, Haiti; and beyond, through his nonprofit Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments (ARCHIVE)...
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Stanford University cognitive scientist Lera Borditsky conducts groundbreaking research on how language shapes thoughts, making her a figure of controversy among traditional linguists like Noam Chomsky. Boroditsky makes the bold claim that “different languages invite speakers to develop different cognitive skills.”...
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Following the successful path of community-supported agriculture programs, two arts organizations develop a similar program for the art world...
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As the old saying goes, “One man’s dry cleaner shop is another man’s concert hall.”...
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Rock ’n’ roll helped America win the Cold War. India’s film industry threatens to take down Islamic Fundamentalism.
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From the seat of a tricycle rickshaw, Beijing-based artist Nicholas Hanna steers the art of temporary calligraphy into the fast lane...
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Artist Tom Deininger takes impressionist perception to a new level with his re-creation of Monet’s masterpiece Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, composed entirely of found objects.
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Is that a heap of garbage or a work of art?...
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Art Director Stephanie
Glaros explains the process behind an Utne Reader illustration…
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When schools are low on money, cash-strapped teachers often pick up the bill for extra supplies. A new business hopes to make it less expensive...
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Adrian Fisk’s iSpeak photography project hopes to give a voice to the voiceless—all 2.5 billion of them...
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Although they look like crumpled wads of cash, Dan Tague’s miniature money sculptures hide a hidden, anti-capitalist message...
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How boxing got knocked out of the American consciousness...
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Why Garrison Keillor still loves radio. Originally published in the September-October 2005 issue of Utne Reader...
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One teacher’s pragmatic defense of liberal arts education has a refreshing, mortal urgency...
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A feminist teaches film to men serving time for armed robbery and murder. Discussing movies like Crooklyn, The Hurt Locker, and Thelma & Louise chips away at their hard-edged vision of what it is to be a man….
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Last month, a program called Documenting Endangered Languages received $3.9 million in funding to rescue the world’s disappearing languages, which may hold clues to our cultural and biological histories…
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A European dance night promises an extra sensational experience for everyone—including the Deaf...
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The Dorothy Collective turns iconic toys into mischievous satire...
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What I found when I found my people...
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A portrait made from 13,138 dice expresses the randomness of life...
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The 100-year-old organization looks to research that may illuminate its future...
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A dynamic performance artist brings environmentalism to underserved urban communities through the projects Life Is Living and The Living Classroom…
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Are face and neck tattoos the latest status symbol of the upper middle class?...
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Photographer Todd McLellan takes things apart and shows you what’s inside.
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James Mollison’s latest photo essay shows the stark difference between people from different world regions and cultures...
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The Arbor portrays the working-class travails of Northern England’s housing projects...
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Indie record label Asthmatic Kitty's documentary, Make, explores the frontiers of creativity...
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A Swedish documentary offers a refreshing, unbiased look at the black power movement...
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A veteran Texas singer-songwriter rises well above her peers...
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Elegaic chamber music has never sounded so enchanted...
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Garage à Trois combine rock and punk with the technical proficiency of jazz.,,
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Superman was born from the creative minds of two Jewish teens whose boyhoods were steeped in comic books and science fiction—and a real-life traveling Jewish strongman named Zisha Breitbart….
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Felines and humans have cohabitated for millennia. But who domesticated whom?...
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Blending literature and architecture, a visual pop artist creates a seven-story tower of books to celebrate her city's designation as the world book capital.
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Phil Ochs, a protest singer from the ‘60s and ‘70s, lived a short, tragic, enigmatic life...
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Polynesia’s Tuamotu Islands provide the setting for the classic real-life adventure Kon-Tiki and the modern-day organic-worshipping New Testament Church cult….
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In New York City, an intense battle over new bike lanes has erupted into a fierce cultural war. But this isn’t the first time a new mode of transportation has opened a schism…
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As filmmaker Terrence Malick grapples with God’s inscrutability in Tree of Life, a feminist viewer grapples with his depiction of woman as a symbol of virtue....
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In this age of with-us-or-against-us political discourse, even the arts are sometimes complicit in promoting fixed, simplistic, polarizing views as the only way to solve complex social issues.
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An architect praises the lousy economy, comparing the loss of business to a farmer allowing a field to lie fallow for a season to regenerate. What surprisingly positive effects have you found in the economic slowdown?...
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What does the last meal say about the man awaiting execution?...
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We used to name our children to honor inspiring leaders, heros, and artists. That’s no longer the case...
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At a small Portland pub, you can help change the world by drinking tasty microbrews...
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Art Director Stephanie
Glaros explains the process behind an Utne Reader illustration…
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Are those patrons that support all types of art an endangered species?...
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U.S. historical markers are typically nonconfrontational—except for the fake ones put up by Norm Magnusson along U.S. Interstate 75...
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A viral sensation pulls back the curtain on Southern hip-hop...
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An experimental comic book lets you deep into the characters’ minds. That is, if you know how to get in...
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Art Director Stephanie
Glaros explains the process behind an Utne Reader illustration…
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Effervescent artist Agustina Woodgate sews poems into second-hand clothes, with one eye on store security…
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A blog looks at abandoned places and the reasons they became ghost towns...
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Art Director Stephanie
Glaros explains the process behind an Utne Reader illustration…
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The inside story of a shy photographer who no longer owns his own face...
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Despite what dad and granddad have always said, sports may not be the best way for boys to “build character”—or so suggest artists in a new exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
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Paul Walde makes artsy percussion music from insect behavior...
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All you need is scotch tape, an internet connection, and the willingness to vandalize private property...
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Miranda July's latest film, narrated by a stuffed cat, is odd and profound...
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A ribald ride through sexual scandal by documentary genius Errol Morris...
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A former Earth Liberation Front activist is regretful, but not entirely repentant...
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A darkly tinted folk album asks big questions and revels in simple pleasures...
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An Icelandic modern classical composer channels the bombast of a coal mine brass band...
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The forerunner of the Afro-Peruvian music revival returns with a Latin American menagerie...
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Critics extol the mind-nourishing virtues of “cultural vegetables”...
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Criticizing any aspect of hip-hop culture is a task fraught with danger. But author Thomas Chatterton Williams is unafraid to enter the fray…
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One man, 100,000 toothpicks, and a whimsical kinetic replica of San Francisco you have to see to believe…
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Retro-camera apps rewrite history in real time—or at least edit it—as we see fit...
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Opening wide this weekend, Terrence Malick’s fifth film, Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, is the auteur’s most ambitious and emotionally rewarding. . . .
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Soundset is a yearly menagerie of hip hop’s best and brightest stars...
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A look around the web to see how folks are celebrating the man at 70...
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