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≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Gimme Shelter, the lead track from the Rolling Stones’ classic album Let It Bleed, goes international in this video produced by PlayingforChange, the same folks who brought you wonderful versions of Stand By Me and Bob Marley’s Redemption Song. Musicians from India, Italy, Jamaica, Brazil, Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and the US  – they all play [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Literature, Radio | ≅ 2 Comments
We posted this long ago, and we’re doing it again because it’s just too good — too good to collect digital dust. The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it premiered with a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s now classic 1932 novel, Brave New [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1975 Nelson Algren left Chicago for good. The famed writer had gone to Paterson, New Jersey on a magazine assignment to cover the Rubin “Hurricane” Carter murder case and decided to stay. This rare video footage was apparently made during his brief return to the Windy City to gather his things. We watch as [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 9 Comments
Charlie Chaplin is said to have added his 4 1/2 minute final speech to The Great Dictator (1940) only after Hitler’s invasion of France. The speech both showcases the actor’s considerable dramatic gifts and makes a prescient, eloquent plea for human decency. So the idea of adding any kind of extra music, especially a composition by [...]
≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
Starting at 9 pm PDT tonight, YouTube will make 10,000 Creative Commons videos available to anyone using YouTube’s video editor. Initially the Creative Commons library will be loaded with videos from C-SPAN, Public.Resource.org, Voice of America, and Al Jazeera, and you can bet that more content providers will be added down the line. This partnership will let video/filmmakers unleash their [...]
≡ Category: History, Online Courses | ≅ 1 Comment
During the 1960s and 1970s, the University of Wisconsin-Madison put together one of the finest history programs in the United States, and it was anchored by George Mosse, a German-born cultural historian who authored 25 books covering the English Reformation, Lutheran theology, Jewish history, and fascist ideology. Though he died in 1999, Mosse still remains a [...]
≡ Category: Beat & Tweets | ≅ Leave a Comment
These cultural goodies (and others) flowed through our Twitter stream during the past week. Find us at @openculture … or Like us on Facebook. •Cult filmmaker John Waters talks about his transgressive humor, oddball lifestyle, and what inspires him. •Aussie student finds universe’s ‘missing mass,’ a problem that puzzled astrophysicists for decades. •Liking Is for Cowards. Go [...]
≡ Category: Film, Sci Fi, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Ever since Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created the very first installment of the The Uncanny X-Men for Marvel in 1963, the beloved team of mutant superheroes known as the X-Men have conquered almost every medium in popular culture from television to video games, to movies and of course comic books. Their enduring popularity isn’t [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 6 Comments
Inspired by Tyler Cullen’s project in New York, Dan Maas hit the streets in London and asked “Hey! What Song are You Listening To?” The tracks, listed below the jump, appeal a bit more to my geezerish tastes. By the time we reach Krakow we should be in good shape …
Last month, Terje Sorgjerd gave us a jaw-dropping video of El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain, and home to one of the world’s best observatories. This month, he returns to his native land and films the Lofoten archipelago, situated at the 68th and 69th parallels of the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. Filmed between April 29 and May 10, Sorgjerd captures what he calls [...]
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