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GOP Proposes Eliminating AmeriCorps and Funding for Public Broadcasting

February 22, 2011

I normally don’t use our blog as a political platform. However, I would like to share two petitions on Change.org which shed light on upcoming Republican budget cut proposals – the complete elimination of the AmeriCorps program and zeroing out funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Each of these proposals offends me as a [...]

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A Denver McDonald’s Uses Classical Music to Scare Away Teenagers? Really?

August 13, 2010

Classical music is yet again being used as a sonic weapon. I recently wrote a post about a Canadian library which was using classical music to prevent teens from loitering at its front entrance. Now, it looks like McDonald’s is jumping on the acoustic bandwagon. According to Alexis Madrigal’s post on The Atlantic, he came [...]

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A Musical Transformation – How One Young Palestinian Man Went from Throwing Stones at Israeli Soldiers to Opening Music Schools in the Middle East

July 10, 2010

Perhaps it is music which will change the world – Pablo Casals I heard a moving story by reporter Sandy Tolan on NPR this morning about how music changed the life of one young Palestinian man. In 1988, a photographer in the West Bank took a picture of eight-year-old Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan with tears in [...]

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NPR New Show – Alt.Latino Talks Music and Soccer, and Interviews Juanes about World Cup 2010

June 16, 2010

NPR kicked off a new show – Alt.Latino – hosted by Jasmine Garsd and Felix Contreras yesterday.  The show is dedicated to talking about the different sides of Latino music and music inspired by Latin America. Appropriately, the first show was dedicated to talking about soccer.  After all, the World Cup is in full swing [...]

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The Metal World Is All A Twitter Over Anvil Story

May 28, 2009

Never heard of Anvil?  Well, now is your chance to learn more about a Heavy Metal icon of sorts.  The buzz is percolating over a new document about the Canadian Heavy Metal which inspires such popular acts like Guns N’ Roses and Metallica. You wouldn’t expect a heavy metal act with a documentary, of all [...]

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