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So It Goes at the Vonnegut Library
Blog: My Kind of Town (& Around) - 19 November 2011
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Best Music, 2011
Blog: Music Road - 17 November 2011
This is a time of year for gift lists, shopping lists, and best of lists.
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India to Indiana in song and image
Blog: Music Road - 1 November 2011
Singer and songwriter Carrie Newcomer had an unexpected opportunity to go to India, and to share her music and ideas there. The experiences she had in India have come through in songs she has included on her latest album Everything is Everywhere.
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Lady in Indiana
Blog: A Lady in London - 23 May 2011
It’s not often that my travels take me to Indiana. Aside from a Notre Dame football game a few years ago, I’ve never been to the state. But when one of my best friends from college planned a wedding in Indiana, it was time to head to the Midwest to celebrate and do a bit [...]
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Vonnegut Library/Museum Opens
Blog: My Kind of Town (& Around) - 12 January 2011
The new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library has opened in downtown Indianapolis. Why Indy? Because Vonnegut was born and raised there, of course.
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holiday gift list: books
Blog: Music Road - 29 November 2010
Several books to consider as you make out your holiday gift lists -- or at any time of year, really.
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Scenes from the Greyhound
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 19 October 2010
In an effort to balance the sheer karmic spectacular of Keija's birthday weekend, the universe sent me on a day-long bus ride, which kicked off with a six hour delay and a drug addict relieving herself on the ground in front of me while trying to engage me in conversation. Faced with the prospect of sharing a bus seat with her and her urine-soaked leggings, I was actually grateful when the Indianapolis-bound convicted murderer decided to befriend me. At least he retained full control of his bladder.
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Road Trip Music: Ohio
Blog: Music Road - 18 August 2010
A place of change and challenge, testing and opportunity, successful experiments and failed ones, exploring new ways of living and seeing how familiar ones would work beyond the edges of civilization: this was the Ohio River Valley in the early years of the American republic. As the Great American Road Trip winds through the state of Ohio, the soundtrack comprises a set of songs about the people who ventured to that frontier, and how they faced the challenges the found there.
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Road Trip Music: Indiana
Blog: Music Road - 11 August 2010
Carrie Newcomer sings of journeys of the heart, and of the spirit, of family ties and the threads of friendship, of encountering God in muddy boots and mystery in summer peaches. She is a Hoosier, brought up in Indiana and based there still.
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composer and player: a conversation
Blog: Music Road - 23 April 2010
Take a listen to this conversation between violinist Hilary Hahn and composer Jennifer Higdon. They are classical musicians, but whatever sort of music you play or listen to, it's worth your time for the insights on collaboration, co operation, and creativity.Higdon was recently named winner of a Pulitzer prize for the piece they are talking of here, in a conversation which took place in Indianapolis right after the premier performance of the work. you may also wish to see
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Travelogue: St. Louis to Indiana
Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 18 July 2009
Time Period: June 12 – June 29 Miles Driven: 799 After a couple of weeks of our adventures being driven on visiting family in Texas and St. Louis, our attentions turned to social time with new and old friends. We had found some regional Burning Man events to attend, and even rendezvoused with another friend and took [...]
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Dark Lord Day
Blog: My Kind of Town (& Around) - 20 April 2009
Are you prepared to meet the Dark Lord on April 25? You'll need a Golden Ticket to do so and to imbibe his black elixir.
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