Jul 17 Pitchfork Music Festival, From the Windy City & WBEZ We're working with "Sound Opinions" host and Vocalo blogger Jim DeRogatis this weekend to bring you the best (and worst) of the Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival 2010. Day 1: Robyn, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse and more. Continue reading
Jul 16 Shields and Brooks on Jobs, Palin and Deeper Meaning of Old Spice Ads By Hari Sreenivasan Even after the Senate's passage of a landmark financial reform bill, Mark Shields and David Brooks tell us about how difficult a sell Democrats and the administration face with voters as the midterm elections draw closer yet unemployment remains… Continue reading
Jul 16 Conversation: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns 50 By Tom LeGro This week marks the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Lee's classic, read today in classrooms throughout the country, has sold more than 30 million copies and made a lasting impact on many writers… Continue reading
Jul 16 Lissy Rosemont Writes Songs at My Dining Room Table By Mike Melia Front-woman of the Junior League Band, Lissy Rosemont is set to release her third full-length album, "Jelly Roll," this week with a concert at Washington, D.C.'s Rock N Roll Hotel. Lissy is singer, guitarist, pianist, banjo player...and the author's fiancee. Continue reading
Jul 15 Celebrating the Marriage of Art and Technology at the Creators Project By Molly Finnegan A partnership between Vice Magazine and Intel, the Creators Project was launched on June 26th in New York, bringing established and emerging artists from around the world together to explore the use of technology in art. Continue reading
Jul 14 Haiti Aims to Move Residents Out of Tents, Back Into Habitable Homes By Talea Miller With 1.5 million Haitians still living in tent camps, international organizations and the government are struggling to find legally available land for new settlements and ways to decongest the existing camps. The government is now advising people who can return… Continue reading
Jul 14 States Face Layoffs, Cuts as Federal Medicaid Aid Stalls Across the U.S., cash-strapped states are facing the possibility of layoffs and program cuts this year as an extension of federal Medicaid aid looks increasingly uncertain. Thirty states had written the extension of the additional Medicaid money -- first… Continue reading
Jul 14 Obama's Immigration Problem in Patchwork Nation By Dante Chinni In a country as complex as diverse as the United States, there aren't many issues that cut the same way everywhere. Some places may be strongly opposed, say to free trade, while others tend to be more supportive. Patchwork… Continue reading