The new Harper’s has a striking image by Kevin Cooley. “Beautiful nightscapes with perfectly placed interventions,” sez Photoshelter.
Wind River Canyonl Thermopolis, Wyoming
© Kevin Cooley: Night Shift series
Failed Housing Project; Morelia, Mexico
© Kevin Cooley: Daytime series
More from Juárez: NPR blog-post and story:
Feist sings like an angel on A Colbert Christmas, for this heavenly auto-prayer answering message:
This weeks HV Podcast— We tour a “Turkey Ranch,” following the gobbler from farmyard to frozen food. By producer Scott Carrier, “Turkey Ranch” (6:54 mp3):
Gonna miss our weekly sips of True Blood. But this exceptional HBO episodic love-story, vampires-live, Louisiana lunacy returns next summer. Alan Ball, the creator of another HBO great, Six Feet Under, based this TV series on the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris.
The show intro is as good as TV gets; “True Blood- Opening Credits” (music: “Bad Things” by Jace Everett):
Hearing Voices from NPR®
039 Portrait of a Plague: For AIDS Awareness Day
Host: Joe Richman of Radio Diaries
Airs week of: 2011-11-30 (Originally: 2008-11-26)
“Portrait of a Plague” (52:00 mp3):
A Day Without Art
Sister Agnes Ramashiga makes her rounds at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto; 2000 patients check in daily, half are HIV positive. It’s “Just Another Day At the Biggest Hospital In the World,” a Radio Diaries by Joe Richman & Sue Johnson (Picture-Projects).
HIV-Positive teenagers, Tanya, Mark, and Tenisha, record audio diaries about living “The Positive Life”; produced by by Stephen Smith & Stephanie Curtis for American RadioWorks (photos and journals at ARW).)
Poet Lisa Buscani is “Counting” on her mom’s health advice, from the book Jangle and the CD Word Up
And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary (CD at Arkiv Music) by Laura Kaminsky is a compositon for viola, cello, piano, and for a narrator, reciting poems, biblical verse, and stories of Tamakloe, a warrior, tailor, and AIDS victim.
AIDS once meant death. Now improved treatments keep HIV-positive people alive for decides. So what’s that like, being brought back from the dead; as when Jesus revived his dead friend “Lazarus;” by Krandall Kraus from his book Book: It’s Never About What It’s About.
“Letters to Butchie” are a dying mother’s writings to a son she’ll never see, produced by Dave Isay Sound Portraits (music: Nick Drake).
Web Resources:
CDC (USA), Critcal Path, AVERT (UK), UN AIDS, Know HIV/AIDS, AIDS Diary, Visual AIDS.
Animations from Creative Time- Day Without Art: Web Action, top to bottom:
Ben Benjamin- Superbad & Chisato Uyeki- Chisa, Guthrie Dolin, Yoshi Sodeoka- Soundtoys, Friederike Paetzold- Iconogene, Lance Arthur of Glassdog.
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[More from Mexico. This is last story by slain newspaper journalist Armando Rodriguez, of El Diario de Juárez , translated by Molly Molloy, research librarian at New Mexico State University- Las Cruces…]
The man assassinated
Tuesday night in the Diaz Ordaz viaduct
was
a street clown,
according to the state authority.
Nevertheless, this person has not been identified,
but it was reported
that he was between 25 and 30 years old,
1.77 meters tall,
delicate,
light brown complexion,
short black hair.
The victim’s face was painted as a clown,
green with a red nose,
reported the State Prosecutor’s office.
He wore a red polo shirt,
a navy blue sweatshirt, blue jeans,
white underwear,
gray socks labeled USA,
gray and white Converse tennis
and a dark beret.
The body was found in the Diaz Ordaz viaduct,
at Norzagaray Blvd in the colonia Bellavista, on November 11 at 9:40 pm.
The body was found on its side,
with bullet wounds in the right side,
chest and head.
At this time, the motive for the murder is unknown as well as the
identities of the murderers.
This is beautiful: Keyboardist Henry Hey of the band Rudder plays with the rhythm and melody of Sarah Palin speech:
via Glassdog.
The Public Radio Exchange’s PRX 3.0 is unleashed, with a new sliding features collection on the front, playlists, 30sec prevus w/o login, and this nice intro video:
The stories of Burmese refugees, the Karen people, recorded in the camps on the Thailand-Burma border, and in their new American homes. Thru it all their music preserves their culture.
Aired on NPR Day to Day; with help from KGLT, by producer Jack Chance, “Burma Blues for Karen” (5:30 mp3):
More Chance music and pix at Guerilla Ethnomusicology.
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
038 Let’s Eat— For Thanksgiving
Host— Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 11/19/2008 – 11/26/2008
Let’s Eat (53:00 mp3):
A Thanksgiving audio feast. We binge on fattening stories, then purge with a documentary on refusing food:
Joe Frank describes a typically twisted family “Thanksgiving Dinner” (from his program “Pilgrim“).
detail of painting “First Thanksgiving” by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris (1863-1930)
courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Scott Carrier tours a “Turkey Ranch,” following the gobbler from farmyard to frozen food.
photo by Harry M. Rhoads (1880-1975)
courtesy Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library
Dean Olscher of The Next Big Thing goes “Chowhounding in St. Paul,” searching for Hmong food, with cellphone assistance from the Chowhound, Jim Leff.
Sarah J. Hale, Editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, led a campaign through
the 1850s-1860s to establish Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday
And Annie Cheney offers a touching document of her eating disorder, “Concerning Breakfast” from Jay Allison’s Life Stories series.
Library of Congress- Thanksgiving in American Memory
US Census Bureau- Thanksgiving Day, 2007
At Funny or Die “Mark Gagliardi drank a bottle of Scotch… And then discussed a famous historical event. That night history was made… Drunk History.” This first episode is on Aaron, Alex and ammo, “Drunk History Vol. 1:”
In subsequent episodes Jack Black as Ben Franklin flies kites and f%#ks.
Another ZBS 2 Minute Film Noir aired on NPR Day to Day: An investor in a pro-Mafia musical does not like the dance number entitled, “Cement Sneakers.”
“Barking Guns & Dancing Dolls” (2:18 mp3):
We’ve updated our ever-popular Sarah Vowell page with new mp3s and a link to her new book, “Sarah’s Consonant Vowells…“
Pretty good idea: “How to use Google Alerts to find out if your site gets hacked.” Make an Alert w/ some common spam terms, eg:
viagra OR cialis OR Xanax site:yoursite.com
I just made such an alert, so let’s see if this post triggers one.
The latest StoryCorps: John Brown (L) tells his brother Paul (R) about his on-air appearance as a gay guy educating evangelical radio.
“John (w/ Paul) Brown” (2:35 mp3):
It’s getting cold out, time for the Fleet Foxes short “White Winter Hymnal:”
Fleet Foxes: space | wikipedia | amazon | Sub Pop
“White Winter Hymnal” (2:27 mp3):
StoryCorps declares November 28 2008 the first annual National Day of Listening, and offer a Do-It-Yourself Guide to help you:
This holiday season, ask the people around you about their lives — it could be your grandmother, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood. By listening to their stories, you will be telling them that they matter and they won’t ever be forgotten. It may be the most meaningful time you spend this year.
“Juarez Insanity,” a TV story by Scott Carrier and videographer Lisa Miller, aired on PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly series. Scott and Lisa spent time with José Antonio Galván, a born-again preacher in Juárez, Mexico, who cares for homeless drug-addicted, mentally ill street people with no place to live but El Pastor’s shelter (Albergue Para Discapacitaros Mentales) out in the desert just south of the U.S. border.
I’ve got 110 patients, my “childs,” that are my childs, not my patients, my childs, and this is a mental institution, especially for the person of the streets. For the people who they lay down on the streets like trash, nobody wants them except Jesus Christ and your server, his servant.
Photo © Julián Cardona
Joe Frank‘s stage performance, “Just an Ordinary Man,” returns to Largo at the Coronet December 2nd and 3rd. Largo is taking reservations now. (Call 310-855-0350 and press #0 for ticket sales.)
