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Prize List:
CDs: - Colombe by the David Reinhardt Trio (Cristal). Throughout Colombe, guitarist David Reinhardt leads an organ trio through music that is alive with a stylish vibe, transporting you to Paris by moonlight.
- Stars and Satellites by Trampled by Turtles (Banjodad/Thirty Tigers). The keening fiddles, burbling banjo and mandolin, and lonesome harmonies on Trampled by Turtles’ latest release ought to play well on the open roads of summer.
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La Bala by Ana Tijoux (Nacional). It’s no surprise that Spanish-speaking emcee and femme fatal Ana Tijoux – born in France to parents exiled from Pinochet’s Chilean dictatorship – takes a critical stance on global and personal politics. When she’s rapping, her delivery is fierce and precise, like a silenced semiautomatic pistol.
Books: -
God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet (Riverhead). Dr. Victoria Sweet paints a dynamic portrait of Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco over a 20-year span. The last almshouse in the United States, Laguna Honda reveals that inefficient health care, the kind that allows a doctor to make an unhurried and accurate diagnosis, may be the most cost-effective approach.
- The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal (Norton). When John D’Agata, a writer of creative quasi-fiction, is confronted by fact-checker Jim Fingal, a hot debate about the nature of art and truth erupts.
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins (Spiegel & Grau). A former wrestler and bar brawler, David Milarch became enchanted, then obsessed by the biggest trees in the world. Dubbing them “champions” and confounding the Champion Tree project, Milarch reinvented himself as a green guru, vowing to find and clone these robust specimens worldwide.
DVD: - The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (First Run Features). While St. Louis’ Pruitt-Igoe 1950s housing project became synonymous with the worst parts of ghetto life, this insightful film exposes the root cause of the collapse, and debunks the myths that still circulate around public housing today.
- Better This World (Bullfrog Films). In the supercharged atmosphere of the 2008 Republican National Convention, two young Texas activists were swept up in the moment – and in an FBI investigation.
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