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Date |
Title |
Producer |
1/21/08 |
Parkour: The Art of Displacement (mp3) |
Jennifer
Guerra |
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Description
If you think park benches are just for sitting and walls are something you walk around…then you probably haven’t experienced parkour (par-CORE). It’s a kind of extreme martial art form that originated in France. Parkour is still relatively unknown in the states, though it did make an appearance in the latest James Bond movie. Michigan Radio’s Jennifer Guerra spent some time with a local parkour club and has this story.
Interviews
Mike Friedman-University of Michigan Parkour Club Co-Founder
Travis Graves-University of Michigan Parkour Club Co-Founder
Michael Atkinson-professor of sport and leisure sciences in the UK
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2/7/08 |
Homegrown Fiddlers: Fiddling for Fun (mp3) |
Jennifer
Guerra |
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Description
Hooten’, hollering, dancing and laughing…probably not your typical description of a string music concert. That is unless the string music in question is fiddle music. A group called the Saline Fiddlers is on a mission to turn string music into a high energy, explosive sound. Michigan Radio’s Jennifer Guerra dropped by for a fiddle practice and has this story.
Interviews
Andrew Schantz-Saline Fiddler
Ben Culver-Saline Fiddler's artistic director
Nick Armstrong
Casey Lee-Saline Fiddler
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2/14/08 |
A Detroit Thing: A Film About Detroit Music (mp3) |
Jennifer
Guerra |
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Description
Anthony Brancaleone (BRANK lee own) is one of the guys behind a new, independent documentary called A Detroit Thing. The movie looks at the struggles Detroit musicians go through to make it big and what happens when they don’t. Jennifer Guerra spoke with Brancaleone about what it takes to make it as a musician in Michigan and as a filmmaker.
Interviews
Anthony Brancaleone-film-maker in Detroit
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2/15/08 |
Slatkin and the DSO: A New Conductor (mp3) |
Vince Duffy |
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Description
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra announced its new fall season today. The schedule features four world premieres, several works by American composers, and many guest artists. But perhaps MOST notable about the season is the debut of Leonard Slatkin (SLAT kin) as the DSO’s new Music Director. Michigan Radio’s Jennifer Guerra spoke with the maestro.
Interviews
Leonard Slatkin-Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director
Justin Davidison-New York Magazine Classical Music Critic
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2/21/08 |
A New Way to See the Holocaust: Art Created From Letters (mp3) |
Richie Duchon |
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Description
The Holocaust is something we learn about through books and photographs, or maybe a visit to a museum. But a University of Michigan Professor and a world renowned artist are teaming up to change that. Michigan Radio's Richie Duchon reports.
Interviews
Trimpin-German sound and sculpture artist
Victor Rosenberg-University of Michigan Professor (School of Information)
Michael Berenbaum-Holocaust scholar at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles
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2/29/08 |
Our Shifting Vowels: The Way We Talk Changes (mp3) |
Linda Stephan |
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Description
In Michigan -- the way we pronounce some of our vowels is shifting. Something called the "Northern Cities Vowel Shift" is taking over the way we talk. It's a way of pronouncing words that didn't exist 75 years ago. Now it's spreading from Michigan's cities out to the countryside. As Linda Stephan reports, if you don't have this new dialect -- your daughter likely will.
Interviews
Young Women at Mall
Dennis Preston - Linguist, Michigan State University
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3/12/08 |
Warhol: Rapid Exposure (mp3) |
Kaomi Goetz |
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Description
Work by one of the 20th century's most celebrated pop artists is coming to West Michigan. Andy Warhol: Rapid Exposure opens today (FRI) at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Michigan Radio's Kaomi Goetz reports that Warhol fans and people unfamiliar with his work may discover there's more to Andy Warhol than iconic Campbell's soup cans.
Interviews
Rick Axsom - Organizing Curator Rapid Exposure, Grand Rapids Art Museum
Henry Matthews - Director of the Galleries and Collections, Grand Valley State University
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3/15/08 |
Jeanne Leiby's Downriver: Short Stories About Downriver (mp3) |
Jennifer
Guerra |
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Description
Even if you haven't had a chance to visit Detroit personally...you can still get a taste for what life there is like. There have been countless books and films set in Detroit. Detroit Rock City, 8 Mile, Middlesex, and any number of Elmore Leonard books, to name a few. But what about the cities just south of Detroit? Cities like Riverview and Taylor and Gross Ile. Author Jeanne Leiby set out to give those cities their literary due with a collection of stories called Downriver. Here with another installment of the Artist Spotlight is Michigan Radio's Jennifer Guerra.
Interviews
Jeanne Leiby - author of Downriver
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3/16/08 |
A Wordsmithing Battle, For the Ladies Only (mp3) |
Sarah Hulett |
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Description
In Detroit tonight, a champion will be made. A field of 50
contenders spent Thursday and Friday nights competing in preliminary bouts.
A dozen of them made it to tonight's finals. Michigan Radio's Sarah Hulett
reports on the contest that will settle who is queen of the microphone.
Interviews
Natalie Illum- Poet,Washington DC
Ms. Wise - Poet, Philadelphia
Kalimah Johnson- Poet Detroit
Sean McGarragle - Bout Manager, Women of the World Poetry Slam
Cassie Poe - Co-chair Women of the World Poetry Slam,Poetry Slam
Incorporated
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3/17/08 |
South Africa Struggles with Heritage: And Gets Help from Michigan (mp3) |
Jennifer
Guerra |
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Description
Democracy in South Africa is only 13 years old. The country has experienced
massive social and political change in the last decade, and is still trying
to figure out how to tell its history. As Michigan Radio's Vincent Duffy
reports, it's a history the universities of South Africa want to tell
completely.
Interviews
Dan Herwitz - Director of the Institute for the Humanties, University of
Michigan
Brian O'Connell - Vice Chancellor, University of Western Cape in Capetown
John Hendrix - Dean of Social Sciences and the Humanities at Fort Hare |
4/16/08 |
Fundraising Gets Creative: Creative Fundraising Tactics (mp3) |
Jennifer
Guerra |
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Description
Once upon a time, Michigan had the fourth highest arts funding in the
nation. And once upon a time wasn't even that long ago. It was 2001. But as
of last year, the state's per capita arts funding dropped to 44th in the
nation. That means in order to survive, non-profit arts organizations are
now counting on less money from the state... and on more money from YOU.
Michigan Radio's Jennifer Guerra has our story
Interviews
Christen McArdle - Executive Director, Ann Arbor Film Festival
Susan Badger Booth - Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Amy Miller - Development Director, Neutral Zone
Janelle Mahlmann - Program Coordinator, Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids
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4/16/08 |
Clearing the Air to Sing (mp3) |
Richie Duchon |
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Description
Michigan is one of 18 states that has not passed some form of smoking ban
for restaurants and bars. But the next time you go out to see live music,
the air in the place may be a little cleaner, and you may have the band to
thank. Michigan Radio's Richie Duchon reports.
Interviews
Tyler Duncan - Keys and Bagpipes, My Dear Disco
Jason Berry - Booking Agent, The Bling Pig
Ken Sikkima - Senior Policy Fellow, Public Sector Consultants
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4/23/08 |
The Electric Kalimba: Kalimba Audio Postcard (mp3) |
Jennifer Guerrera |
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Description
The kalimba is an ancient African instrument made out of wood and tiny
metal tines that you pluck with your thumbs. Two Detroit musicians have
updated the instrument for the 21st century. Over one-hundred of their
hand-crafted kalimbas are on display at the U-F-O Factory in Detroit.
Michigan Radio's Jennifer Guerra visited the gallery...and sent back this
audio postcard
Interviews
Elliot Bergman - Musician, Kalimba Owner
Warn Defever - Musician, Kalimba Owner |
5/6/08 |
Hemingway's Michigan: Great Michigan Read (mp3) |
Jennifer Guerrera |
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Description
People don't read a whole lot of literature anymore. That's according to a
recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts. In an effort to buck
the trend, the Michigan Humanities Council came up with the idea to turn
the state into one giant book club where everyone reads the same book at
the same time. The book that was chosen for the first ever Great Michigan
Read is The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway. Michigan Radio's
Jennifer Guerra has more.
Interviews
Valerie Hemingway - Hemingway's daughter-in-law
Mary Crockett - Reader, Michigan resident
Debra Madonna - Reader, Michigan resident
Adam Colas - Student, 826 Michigan
Eva Colas - Student, 826 Michigan
Ryan Howard - Instructor, 826 Michigan
A Michigan Humanities Council-funded project.
Visit www.greatmichiganread.org
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