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The day Elvin Jones fired up Milwaukee’s Lakefront Festival of Art in 1972 |
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If These Quilts Could Talk: Signals along the Underground Railroad |
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Will the Wolf Survive — or Attack? Examining “The Grey” Controversy |
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“In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” — and Duane Allman * |
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The Day the United States Hanged a Woman |
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Discovering a Famous Seafaring Scene in Calatrava’s Pavilion |
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The loss of Milwaukee’s black talk radio stirs memories of Marvin Gaye |
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Wisconsin gave John Steuart Curry a home. He gave back the state’s idea as image |
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Charlie Haden’s bass sang around the world, and back, to The Shenandoah |
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Culture Currents Fave Art Gallery |
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The Deadly Attack of the Smart Phone Zombies |
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“Real/Surreal” explores the haunted intersection of realist and surrealist American art |
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Gorky’s “Garden in Sochi” might give new meanings to the Olympics. |
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My All-time Best Americana/Roots albums. |
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If you asked her, Kathy Naab could write a book: A life remembered |
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A remarkable Mother’s Day story of an unforgettable “Lady” and her gifted son, Arshile Gorky |
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Rembrandt: Last Chances To See a Life-Changing Work of Art |
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Ishmael and Queequeg: the Original Pan-Cultural Odd Couple? |
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Remembering Ron Cuzner and jazz on “The Dark Side” |
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Blogger bio and statement |
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Samsara: A Wordless World of Magnificent Images (opens Friday) |
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Edward S. Curtis preserved America’s Vanishing Race for Posterity |
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More images from Edward Curtis and The Vanishing Race |
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A graphic version of T. Monk (but not Bud Powell) getting unfairly busted by racist cops… |
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Kathy Mattea’s “Coal Journey” Back Home |
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Reprise: Nocturnal Milwaukee jazz DJ Ron Cuzner lives on in musicians’ memories |
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If Dylan wanted to back him up, he must’ve been a hell of a leader. On mountains, he was. |
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Garry Wills exposes the cultural roots of America’s gun mentality |
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A few words about Jeff Poniewaz, and a poem by him |
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A round-trip drive from Milwaukee to the Pacific Ocean — a cultural travelogue part 2 |
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Jazz education is swinging hard across Milwaukee and America |
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The Magician Behind Miles: Reviving the American Individualism of Gil Evans |
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A round-trip drive across America’s mountainous backbone — a cultural travelogue |
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Dissenting thoughts on the Cuzner style |
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A clean, well-lighted place: A river runs through Wisconsin’s roots music mecca |
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Clyfford Still? Yes, the great American painter still holds up, in a whole museum |
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The last of the great 19th-century whaling ships takes another journey, into living history |
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“He IS the guitar.” Blues pioneer Michael Bloomfield finally gets his due |
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Manty Ellis builds a new foundation for Milwaukee’s jazz scene |
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The “Magic Book” of Weather Report and Zawinul interview |
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“I Fought the Law, Brother Dead and Gone” (The ghosts of Brown, Garner & Hamilton) |
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The Aura of the African-American in Visual Art and Culture |
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Resources |
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Modern pioneers: How Lombardi’s Packers transformed football’s racial culture |
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My Moby Dick sculpture from Cottage House Primitives |
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A grand dame of jazz presents a celebration of “Dexter Gordon @ 90.” |
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Three Decisive Days of the Civil War, 150 years ago this week |
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Toni Morrison on Melville and the Language of Denial |
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Culture Currents Picks: Best Jazz and Roots Music of 2014 |
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Jeffrey Foucault: Songwriter on a Train to You |
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Culture Currents writer-creator Kevin Lynch receives top prize for arts criticism from Milwaukee Press Club |
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Collage: Piecing Together Snips and Heaps of a Common Cultural Act — in Colorado |
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Following the inextiguishable flight of The Grateful Dead’s “Dark Star” |
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Milwaukee’s Revived Jazz Gallery: A Beacon for Creative Freedom Burns Again |
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Weather Report: From the First Lightning Bolt to the Rise of a Jazz Tsunami |
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Is the Tedeschi Trucks Band the Best American Group Working Today? |
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An Elegy to a Symphonic Musician — Bill Bennett |
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The paranoid and racist John Birch Society is alive in new guises. |
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A Melville research trip with photos by Katrin Talbot |
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Thelonious Monk died today in 1982. An obit column from back then |
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Undecided Voters (in Swing States?): Who Are Those Guys? |
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Superband leader Christensen survives, but still fights for his financial life |
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“Genius” Jason Moran ain’t gettin’ a big head. He’s updating Fats Waller for shows in Milwaukee and San Francisco… |
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George Bernard Shaw scrutinizes human folly and romance in APT’s “The Doctor’s Dilemma” |
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A very behind-the-beat blog on my favorite jazz recordings of 2013. |
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Tedeschi Trucks Band – Part 2: A Comparison and a Closer Look |
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Gifted trumpeter-composer Philip Dizack will play three Milwaukee dates |
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Bluegrass inventor Bill Monroe (Sept. 13, 1911-Sept. 9, 1996) Springs a Surprise |
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“Trains That Passed in the Night” — How photographer O. Winston Link told a classic American story |
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Discovering the black community’s role in the Underground Railroad’s “Hidden History” |
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Political Call and Response and The Falling Man Who Still Haunts |
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Guitarist Manty Ellis tells all about Milwaukee jazz back in the day |
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Wisconsin Proud: Shimon and Lindemann reveal courage, commitment and salt-of-earth soul |
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A barely suppressed sneer: The persistence of Dick Cheney’s dark “honor.” |
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Bandleader Maria Schneider walks a wintry tightrope over her jazz success |
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They’ve got the back of the Man in Black: Johnny Cash |
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Trumpeter Russ Johnson opens new vistas in jazz conversation |
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Photos That Made History and Make You Remember |
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Eagle Wings and Byrd Calls, and a Gust of Defiantly Mystical Romanticism |
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Stepping Inside the Outside the Box New Music Festival |
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Coltrane comes home, to find his deepest or his most far-flung self? |
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Robert Hilburn’s “Johnny Cash: The Life” feels like a definitive biography |
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It’s spring and jazz is busting out all over in Milwaukee |
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Drummer-composer Devin Drobka harbors dreams for a surviving world in “Bell Dance Songs” |
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Masterpieces born of rebellion: from Van Gogh to Pollock at the Milwaukee Art Museum |
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My Best Jazz Experiences of 2012 (in memory of James Hazard) |
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My book “Voices in the River: The Jazz Message to Democracy” gets a pre-published airing |
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The Perpetual Adolescence of Match.com: Social Network Bans Moby-Dick |
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American Players Theatre’s Sarah Day makes Didion’s devastating “Year” magical |
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Antler reaches for sky-born ideas and touches people down here |
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Stemper’s “Persistence of Honor” speaks volumes in pure music |
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Critic Gary Giddins scurries up the masthead of The Pequod. What do you think of Moby-Dick? |
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The Tedeschi Trucks Band: As Timeless as the Red Rocks of Colorado |
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“Edward Curtis and the Vanishing Race,” two more memorable samples |
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Recent Hauntings: Does American Democracy Stand a Ghost of a Chance? |
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Pondering Jesus Christ’s birth, death and “immaculate reconception,” via Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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Charles Woodson: A Poster Boy for Packer Ageism? — Part 2 |
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Thoreau on newsworthiness/ Environmental writing anthology |
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Singer Jackie Allen’s Sophistication and Soul comes home to Milwaukee |
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Under Richard Thompson’s spell: From tragic loss to boyish wisdom |
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Riding with another African American as “guilty” as Trayvon Martin, and Pip |
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Grammy-winning trumpeter Brian Lynch salutes unsung heroes of his art |
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Edo de Waart records Mahler/Harvey Taylor’s new trumpeting |
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Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist: Marilynne Robinson |
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Delving into the Depths of Trump the Stump — a comment and a visual image |
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The original Milwaukee Jazz Gallery’s Shadow and Act |
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Rediscovering a Cezanne Chateau in my Basement |
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Titian’s “Christ (the Humanist) and the Adulteress” |
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Out There in the Life and Time of Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) |
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And a few more big jazz dates for Jazz Appreciation Month |
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Aaron Rodgers is finally getting a little more subtle with his comedy |
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Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair. Hover through the Fog and Filthy Air! |
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Looking again at how the great Italian painter Titian understood ancient times, and ours |
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Why Gore Vidal (1925-2012) Still Matters |
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Levon Helm and The Band: A Speculative Fictional Fragment and a Tribute |
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Ramblin’ Jack Elliott still takes his audience down a long, crooked road |
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Plucking Musical Fruit Deep in Appalachia |
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“Revival’s in the air” at Gregg Allman’s Potawatomi concert |
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Alone and live, guitar wizard David Torn’s far-reaching sonic colors recall Pink Floyd and beyond |
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Guy Clark and Darrell Scott: Country Troubadours for Our Times |
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Author Michael Perry reflects on his friendship with two Wisconsin photographers |
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The Adventures of Madame Maggie, or the Return of the Hound of the Baskervilles. |
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Literary critic, writer and professor Ihab Hassan spent a lifetime questing for humanity |
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Sand County Songs: Aldo Leopold’s Words and Ideas Make Beautiful Music. |
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Discovering Ecuador’s color, bounty and majesty in August of 2014 |
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A Coen Brothers movie reaches for a rootsy wrinkle in time |
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The Gypsy Lumberjacks are pied pipers who carry a heavy vernacular load like pros |
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“The Journey” — A Deathly Odyssey Teaches Trumpeter David Cooper about Music and Life |
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Climber-skiier-banojist Bill Briggs redux and a correction |
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A review: Charlie Haden and Keith Jarrett’s “Last Dance” |
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On Charlie Sykes, “right to work” in Wisconsin, and the will to power |
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Scott Walker hears from God, or thinks his job creation makes him really special |
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Fave Art Gallery: Sloan, just because |
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Culture Currents moves to the Grand Tetons |
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“The Changin’ Times” and The Drizzly November of Bob Dylan’s Soul |
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Maria Schneider just nabbed 3 Classical Grammies. Deservedly? |
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Jeff (Because) Poniewaz hovers over the freeway |
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Kenneth Lonergan’s “Margaret” endures a modern-day “Shock Corridor.” |
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A round-trip drive to the Pacific Ocean — Part 3: The SFJAZZ Collective remembers and creates like America could |
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CC readers, introducing (bugle fanfare) the new house cat, Queen Cleopat- er, Chloe |
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The Tedeschi-Trucks Band sets a high bar for American vernacular music |
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Up there in the wind, listen for Johnny Cash — his voice, courage and vision |
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My best albums of 2012 in roots vernacular music |
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James McMurtry’s “Game” reveals more of himself, and of a vividly evoked America |
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A Musical Meditation on Honor and Barack Obama |
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Paul Ryan: The Story of the Peanut Butter-munching Automaton and his Granny |
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“Searching for Sal” — A quest for the hole-in-one, and even more elusive truths. |
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Inside a real wild animal sanctuary |
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Rodney Crowell’s long and winding road back to Emmylou |
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Digging (up) the Year’s Vernaculars, Roots and All |
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Amiri Baraka: A Native Son of Racial Reality and Necessity |
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On 9/11 Anniversary: How Another City Survived its own Fallen Men (Women and Children) |
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If you are what you eat, did I know what I was, and how all that stuff got to be food? |
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Jazz singer Mark Murphy (1932-2015), “The next Sinatra,” did it his way |
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Going back to Townes Van Zandt’s “Proud Mountains,” to anyone’s mountains. |
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Stemper’s “Persistence of Honor” (Preferred performance link) and other upcoming Stemper events |
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John Mellencamp and Stephen King conjur the Ghost Brothers of Darkland County |
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Riding with another African American as “guilty” as Trayvon Martin, and Pip |
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The Flatlanders head for the hills, or was it for a sure-bet payday? |
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Here’s my list of “Books that Mattered the Most to Me.” |
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Is She Safe Because Buddha is on the Smart Phone? |
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“Hope Springs” Bubbles Below the Oscar Radar |
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“Big Miracle”: A video movie gem hidden below an icy Alaskan surface |
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Wit, wisdom, and evocation emanate from Richard Wiegel’s “Wiegel Room” |
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It Must Work is holding a fundraiser for a new well for orphans without water in West Africa |
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Paul Kantner took Jefferson Airplane/Starship and ’60s American rock high and far |
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Wynton Marsalis makes like St. Nick with his bag of traditional and contemporary goodies |
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Is it Jurassic Jazz, or a new creature with a very big sonic footprint? |
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Color this your favorite Jackie Allen album |
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How can the government be everywhere stealing our guns, Senator Lee? |
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P.S. On Trayvon Martin post. Is Zimmerman a provoker or a victim? (Give us The Watchman!) |
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Chicago Yestet gears up with music of empowering politics |
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Did I see yo mammy steal somebody’s Grammy? Kudos and Komplaints |
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A weekend brimming with performing arts choices in Milwaukee |
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A discography: Exploring the jazz orchestra’s wilds and wonders |
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Heyyy watermelon man, the whole world hears you playin’ that jazz! |
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Five Visionary Musicians Travel to the Apocalypse and Beyond |
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Ornette lives! A brief appreciation of Ornette Coleman and “The Cry” (1930-2015) |
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Culture Currents Best Jazz Albums etc. of 2015 |
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P.S. On Trayvon Martin post. Is Zimmerman a provoker or a victim? (Give us The Watchman!) |
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Another list of ideas for action from Walter Mosley |
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Wall Street on the Edge: A Deadly Margin for Error |
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Culture Currents adopts a new theme image from the Appalachian mountains |
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While Republicans filibuster (and fiddle), the grieving wall of Newtown may come to life |
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Marquette High grad chronicles how Iowa built a field of dreams for marriage equality |
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Trumpeter Jamie Breiwick plays at his CD release party Saturday at the Jazz Estate |
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More thoughts on Levon Helm from Louie Perez of Los Lobos and a great video |
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Paul Geremia Dwells in the Obscure Depths of the Blues He Brings to Light |
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A Walmart Cinderella Sweeps Up on Desolation Row |
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Does Marion Cotillard forge an anti-Ahab heroine for our time in “Rust and Bone”? |
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Bill Camplin’s “Understory” digs deep, while casting a long shadow on the present |
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A very brief photo essay on driving into Appalachia |
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Another trip, with abundant comic relief from politics and other ugly human doings |
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Thoughts of a saddened and bemused Bee Gees fan from 1967 |
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Two days left to see Kandinsky, a great thinker and a greater artist |
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Santana, Trucks and Tedeschi feelin’ good |
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Jeffrey Foucault’s Cold Satellite Transmits a Yeats-like Vibe |
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WORDS, SOUNDS AND IMAGES OF COMMON (AND UNCOMMON) CULTURE |
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You Doubt Ryan Thinks of Humans as Mathematical Digits? |
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American Players Theatre’s Jim DeVita conjures a Shakespeare-haunted murder-mystery |
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Richard Deibenkorn is the summer artist of lush and glaring riches |
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Russell Banks returns to short stories with a great novelist’s sagacity for human nature |
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Los Lobos: The powerful and beautiful social comment of “Gates of Gold” |
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A couple of urgent cultural and political readings of late |
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Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider on nature, and on the best Gil Evans |
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A Gust of Cooling Emily Dickinson |
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Jonathan Klett’s potent video film “Truth, Communion, Immense Possibility, and Art” |
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Does Walker walk the walk, too? Nah, he just pushes a pile he treats like garbage (cartoon by Kevin Lynch). |
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The Bad Plus go to “the emotional core,” and to ironies and contradictions |
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Culture Currents and No Depression Celebrate the Best Roots Music Albums of 2015 |
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Culture Currents is now on Facebook |
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Two Guys and Their Guitars |
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“Black Radio” Radiates Across Milwaukee’s Great Divide |
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The Shepherd Express has provided fact-based reporting to help you make an informed vote. |
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National Literacy Month is here |
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Trumpeter Jamie Breiwick “dreams” of Thelonious Monk’s music |
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The Great Charles Woodson: Poster Boy for Packer Ageism? — Part 2 |
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Another dose of too-slippery-to-peg Americana |
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A few thoughts on “Take Five.” |
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Correction: Starting time of Brian Lynch Master Class. |
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What are the most “popular” posts on Culture Currents? Here’s a full list. |
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The Bad Plus adds up a new Rite of Spring with smart subtraction |
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Getting down off your horse and savin’ a little face is as American as apple pie in the face. |
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Marc Eisen finds musicians who nail the Zeitgeist and its Parade of Masqueraders |
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Jonathan Klett’s potent video film “Truth, Communion, Immense Possibility, and Art” |
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Trumpeter Russ Johnson re-imagines Eric Dolphy’s classic album “Out to Lunch!” |
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now vote to recall |
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As Mittor Romsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams… |
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Sam Francis Carried Printmaking into Deep and Beautiful Realms |
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Local labor movement struggles for job creation. |
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James McMurtry talks about the making of “Complicated Game” and more |
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Moby rises again (intact) on match.com |
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Happy About a Hanging? |
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Something to do, to be responsible for. |
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Guitarist David Torn’s far-out and far-in music goes on tour, with a new album |
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The Jefferson Airplane lands on a New York rooftop — inspired ’60s anarchy |
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What’s Scott Walker up to now? |
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“The Highway Home, Spying Sun”: a photograph and two poems |
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