Pejk Malinovski

Pete Seeger performs in Newburgh, New York, in 1987.

Pete Seeger’s centennial

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In 2010, Kurt Andersen paid a visit to Pete Seeger at his home. The folk music giant would have turned 100 this week.

Laika poses in a training capsule.

Laika’s dream

The old poet and the radios

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Revenge of the nerds

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Be here now

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How to modernize your kimono

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Last night Roland brought me along to his friend’s kimono Party. Yes, you guessed it, a kimono party is a party with people dressed in kimonos. Of course it was somewhat tongue in cheek, but as most Japanese these people were dead serious about their hobby. There was a one hour presentation on ways to […]

How long would you wait for your loved one?

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10 years is how long Hachiko waited for his master at Shibuya station. Every day from 1925 to 1935, the dog would go to the station and wait for the afternoon train, the train that his master used to take home from work. Only he wasn’t coming because he was dead and so Hachiko waited […]

James Dean of classical music

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is what Tim Page the music critic called Glenn Gould. Privately they were close friends. When Gould had finished his legendary 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg variations he asked Tim Page, who was then a host of a music show at WNYC, to do an interview with him. Only, Gould would script it all! Casting […]

Woody Guthrie 2.0

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Producing ourAmerican Iconsstory on “This Land Is Your Land” allowed me to meet some great people. As I trawled through Woody-land, I spoke with his daughter, Nora, and sang with his friend, Pete Seeger. I also stumbled uponthis cool projectby the folk-rock bandAkron/Familycalled ‘Woody Guthrie’s America.’ The band members asked a bunch of their friends […]

Dreaming of Osama

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Usually when we heard from Osama Bin Laden it was on audio tapes broadcast on Al Jazeera — but he also appeared in bedrooms all over the world, haunting our dreams. This piece, Dr…