A Woody Guthrie Centennial Moment: Woody and Moses
Folkways founder MOSES ASCH regarded WOODY GUTHRIE as a meaningful artist, but Woody's undisciplined ways agitated him. A…
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It’s Got That Swing…: Alexandre Tharaud’s <i>Swinging Paris Le Boeuf Sur le Toit</i>
Recalling the glory days in the 1920s of the famed Paris nightspot Le Boeuf Sur le Toit, French…
NASA’S Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by Ancient Starlight
Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in…
The Cautionary Tale of Jenny Wren
From his last published novel, Our Mutual Friend, comes the tale of Jenny Wren, a character Dickens uses…
Rocketship X-M
DEEP ROOTS THEATER: Now playiing--Rocketship X-M, a 1950 sci-fi opus starring Lloyd Bridges in a script by blacklisted…
Rossini on Rossini, Byron on Rossini
From his 1886 book From Mozart to Marvio V1: Reminiscences of a Half Century, Louis Engel discloses the…
A Master Returns to Bach, With Glorious Results
As a young pianist, András Schiff earned wide esteem for his 1980s recordings of the major keyboard works…
Farm Bill Update
The fate of the Farm Bill, the effects of its not being passed, and wither the conservation compliance…
De Paris, Tout pour l’amour
Anticipation is building in Europe for the breakout prospects of 22-year-old Parisian songstress Juliette Katz, who is being…
Written In the Land
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of over 25,000 years of Aboriginal occupation within this area, and Kakadu's rock art…