Gideon Brower is a writer and radio producer in Los Angeles.
Gideon Brower is a Los Angeles-based writer. You can find more of his radio stories at www.gideonbrower.com.
Music performed by symphony orchestras sounds sublime from the 17th row, but on stage? Not so much.
The situation in Nigeria is bad. More than 200 school girls were kidnapped earlier this month and so far haven't been rescued. Now there are reports of forced weddings and of the girls being taken across the border into neighboring countries.