Bullying’ Song Wins National Songwriting Contest

Source: Scoop - New Zealand News

‘ Bullying’ Song Wins National Songwriting Contest Wellington girl Brianna Anglesey has won Caritas’ annual Singout4Justice songwriting competition. Brianna, a Year 8 student at Thorndon School, Wellington, won with ...
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Malaysian Games & Comics Convention (MGCC) 2012

Source: CNN

Last weekend KDU University College hosted the Malaysian Games ...
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Hell-raising: A how-to guide with Anaïs Mitchell

Source: The Independent

Mitchell made her name with her last album, Hadestown . It's a folk opera resetting the Greek Orpheus myth in the Great Depression – on paper, no easy sell. It began as a live stage show, and went through various casts, one o ...
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On the Capitol: West students form PAC for schools and against Walker

Source: Madison.com

The three Rs used to stand for reading, (w)riting and 'rithmetic. Now it seems they could be recalls, recounts and redistricting battles. A group of students at West High School are hoping to school Wisconsin voters by forming a ...
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A different class: the expansion of Steiner schools

Source: Guardian Unlimited

The school run resembles the exodus from a festival. There are vans with hippyish bumper stickers – Homeopathy Heals, says one – bouncing down a track to the sprawling car park, where women in ponchos hug th ...
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The Guthrie Family Tree

Source: About.com: Folk Music

As I was writing about Cathy Guthrie recently, it occurred to me that there are so many remarkable folk music families in the history of the craft - those who have made music together as a band, and those who have just passed the gene down fr ...
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The 10 Best Bob Dylan Songs Over Seven Minutes

Source: Pate Magazine

If the wind’s got you sideways with with one hand holdin’ on And the other starts slipping and the feeling is gone And yer train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it And the wood’s easy findin’ but yer lazy to fetch it With your silhouette whe ...
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Video Crime

Source: Pushing Ahead of the Dame

“Video Crime,”* a tuneless Bowie collaboration with the Sales brothers, is part of the loose affiliation of “protest” songs on Tin Machine, the subject here a hodgepodge of serial killing (“trash time Bundy,” “late night cannibal“), urban decay/de-indust ...
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Dylan Week: Bob Dylan's Bizarre Comic Book Life

Source: Gothamist

"I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now." We'll be celebrating Bob Dylan's 71st birthday with a series of posts this week. As mercurial as Dylan has always been, there is one thing we do know: for as long as Dylan has been writin ...
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