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Evergreen Farms
By Rosemary Conroy on Friday, November 21, 2008.There are numerous benefits to the environment and the neighborhood of a local Christmas Tree farm.
Writers on a New England Stage: Anita Shreve
By Laura Knoy on Friday, November 21, 2008.Massachusetts-born writer Anita Shreve is the author of 14 books, including The Pilot’s Wife, chosen as an Oprah Book Club Selection, and The Weight of Water, a murder mystery set on the Isles of Shoals. Her latest offering, Testimony, opens the door to a sex scandal at a New England boarding school that starts with a video tape and ripples out into an entire community. This week Anita Shreve traveled to The Music Hall in Portsmouth to be a part of our Writers on a New England Stage series. She spoke before a live audience on her new book and then was joined by NHPR's Laura Knoy. Today we bring you that performance.
Budget Complications Go Beyond The Numbers
By Josh Rogers on Thursday, November 20, 2008.As Donald Rumsfeld once remarked, “you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have.” While he was talking about Iraq, the former defense secretary’s observation also applies to budget season in Concord.
November 20, 2008
Today on Word of Mouth, why should Lindsay, Britney and TomKat get all the attention? Now you can hire your own personal photographer to stalk you around as you go about your daily business. It’s guaranteed to make people curious, if nothing else. Plus, reviving a tradition. Sacred harp music goes back to the origins of America. We talk with a filmmaker who documented the dying breed of self-taught singers. And we meet two young women in Appalachia who are mixing hip-hop into their roots music. And we’ll get some tips on how to maintain a sliver of privacy in a world gone online.
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Two Events at St. Anselm's
By Avishay Artsy on Thursday, November 20, 2008.
If you’re in the Manchester area this evening, you might be interested in a couple events at Saint Anselm’s College. Two prominent intellectuals, both Harvard professors, will be speaking.
Awake, My Soul: The Music of Sacred Harp
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 20, 2008.
Shape-note singing may be fading, but can still be heard inside of the white churches of the American South. The style, also called sacred harp singing after an influential songbook published more than 100 years ago, has elements that stretch back at least to Elizabethan England, maybe even to Medieval chants. It flourished in colonial New England and in its present form took deep root in the rural South, where it is still sung today in four-part harmony in full, loud voices.
Sacred harp practitioners, whose grandparents and great-grandparents sang on worn church pews, are documented in the film Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp. A new, two-CD set draws music from the film, along with interpretations by contemporary musicians, giving us a fine reason to revisit the film, co-directed by Erica Hinton and Matt Hinton.
Matt Hinton joins us from Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta to explore one of the country’s earliest indigenous musical traditions.
Watch the trailer for Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp:
(Photo by squashpicker)
Candid Camera For Hire
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 20, 2008.We don’t often get into celebrity gossip magazines on this show. But indulge me for a minute. There’s a certain allure to flipping through glossy tabloids to see celebrities walking their dogs, swimming at the beach or buying groceries, under the headline "Celebrities: They’re Just Like Us" - so we could be just like them. The difference is that we don’t have people with cameras stalking us all day.
Last month on Live with Regis and Kelly, Victoria Beckham talked about how some of her best family photos come from the paparazzi. She said, “you never have to take a camera because somebody is always going to capture that moment... and they often retouch [the photographs]!"
If you wish you could have your most intimate family moments captured by strangers, fear not. All it takes is a little cash. Izaz Rony is a 23-year-old who runs the New York-based photo service MethodIzaz. For $500 an hour and up, he’ll follow you around and take candid pictures of you.
There are paparazzi-for-hire services like Celeb4ADay, that provide a publicist and limo and bodyguard along with shouting photographers, for people to live out their fantasies of being like Brangelina or Paris. But what Izaz does is a little different. He joins us from New York to tell us more about his innovative business.
(Photo courtesy of MethodIzaz)
