Google And Dish Network Test TV Search Engine
Mar 9th, 2010 · Google has partnered itself with Dish Network to test a television search engine that would compile results from both traditional programming and web video services.
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The Thistle And Shamrock: New Gaelic Voices
Mar 3rd, 2010 · Explore the branches of contemporary song sprouting from the roots of ancient vocal traditions with Alyth McCormack, Nuala Kennedy and Julie Fowlis.
Carolina Chocolate Drops A Brand-New Album
Mar 1st, 2010 · Though they work as a traditional African-American string band, Carolina Chocolate Drops' members throw in some modern twists. The Durham, N.C.-based trio plays a wide variety of instruments, including the banjo, fiddle, jug, bones and harmonica. All of those sounds are featured on the band's newest record, Genuine Negro Jig.
Joanna Newsom Maps A Triple-Album Heart
Feb 23rd, 2010 · Newsom comes from a great tradition of visionary California oddballs such as Terry Riley and Frank Zappa. Like her forebears, her ambitions run deep and wide. On her new triple-length album, Have One on Me, Newsom taps into myths of the American West and the open road.
Researchers: Most 'Test Tube' Kids Are Healthy
Feb 21st, 2010 · More than 30 years after the world greeted its first "test-tube" baby with a mixture of awe, elation and concern, researchers say they are finding only a few medical differences between these children and kids conceived in the traditional way.
'They Know So Much Music': The Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival
Feb 19th, 2010 · Talk to most jazz folk in or from the Washington, D.C. region, and they'll sing the praises of Paul Carr, tenor saxophonist and jazz educator. He's also now reviving the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, a D.C. area tradition with more than a few unique aspects to it.
Cumbia Moderna De Soledad: Fela Around The World
Feb 18th, 2010 · With its sparse but powerful percussive push and chanting chorus, "Shacalao" strips Fela Kuti's more groove-laden song "Shakara" down to rhythmic studs, pushing it forward with the two-step beat that lies at the heart of cumbia. Yet, while Cumbia Moderna de Soledad remakes Fela, it also gestures to the deep tradition that bonds eastern Colombia with western Africa.
Vancouver Olympic Logo: A Smiling Marker Of Death?
Feb 18th, 2010 · So, what's the deal with that smiling pile of rocks used as the logo for the Vancouver Games? It's a stylized version of an "inukshuk," the stone cairns built by the Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. But an expert says traditional inukshuks don't use the human form — unless you want to mark the spot where someone has been killed.
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