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A million years ago…

January 26th, 2012 · No Comments

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Love & Light (& Latkes) to you and yours

December 23rd, 2011 · No Comments

Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog A Jewish pop quiz with Matt Damon and the luscious Scarlett Johansson, with (YES!) mentions of Gwyneth Paltrow. (Jew?)

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Iconic

November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

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The chances of anything coming from Mars…

October 31st, 2011 · No Comments

…are a million to one, but still they come! Happy Halloween!  We’ll celebrate here tonight with the following broadcasts on the stream: 7:00 PM EDT:  The Mercury Theatre on the Air’s October 30, 1938 presentation of ‘War of the Worlds’, starring Orson Wells.  It secured Wells’ fame for all time.  And it’s still spooky. 8:00 [...]

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Weekend in the Parc — Osheaga 2011

August 7th, 2011 · No Comments

Osheaga was a name used for the area that is now Montreal by some of the first European settlers in the region. The name is said to originate from Jacques Cartier when he met the Mohawks near the Lachine rapids in what is now Montreal. But so the Mohawk oral history goes the white man [...]

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Do you Q?

June 19th, 2011 · No Comments

If you spend anytime listening to CBC Radio, you do. Q is one of the most popular radio shows in Canada, and it’s starting to get picked up by NPR (used to stand for National Public Radio, now it’s just letters like KFC…hmmm….) stations here in the States. Jian Ghomeshi is the host and co-creater [...]

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Up in the sky! It’s a plane! It’s a bird! Plane! Bird! It’s…

May 25th, 2011 · No Comments

They have appeared regularly here on VermontMornings.com. If you just can’t get enough of Booptrax, you’ll be happy to know that you can now listen to them 24/7.  If you like musical oddities, audio rarities and other ear ticklers, go check them out for yourself:  Booptrax.com.

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‘God’s empty chair’

February 16th, 2011 · No Comments

Those words were originally seen in Jack Kerouac‘s “On The Road.”  They’re  how Dean Moriarty describes the piano bench that George Shearing just vacated.  Shearing, the London-born jazz piano legend, died Monday of heart failure in New York City at the age of 91.  Blind from birth, Shearing began playing at the age of three [...]

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This is how they do it in Argentina:

December 30th, 2010 · No Comments

(‘Dancing With The Stars’ that is…) SILVINA ESCUDERO STRIPDANCE 25-10-2010 Uploaded by betocammpos. – See the latest featured music videos.

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And a couple hundred miles to the north…

December 27th, 2010 · No Comments

…less snow, but more magic in Montreal.  This exhibit, which runs through February, is at Place Des Arts, in the heart of downtown.

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