Month: November 2008

workin w hahva at “the coffee shop” on mariposa. man, they’ve been playing all the classic jams today. they actually played blood sweat and tears, lucretia mcevil…i used to jump up and down and run around the living room to that song when i was like 7yrs old. now it’s “songs in the key of … [Read more…]

  Music to Your Ears? Music for Your Heart, Too By Maggie Fox, Reuters (Story about the study was picked up last night by ABC’s World News) WASHINGTON Songs that make our hearts soar can make them stronger too, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. They found that when people listened to their favorite music, their blood vessels … [Read more…]

A couple weeks ago I was at an Education Innovation panel in DC (w Harlem Children Zone’s Geoffrey Canada, Harvard Education Innovation Lab Economist Roland Fryer, NYT Mag Editor Paul Tough and CAP Senior Fellow/MNSi Board member, Robert Gordon)  Roland raised one of his central questions – in short, and in general (unrelated to Obama), how do … [Read more…]

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible…tonight is your answer.” “So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other.” … [Read more…]

  South Philly where you at? Photo courtesy of Obama Arts Policy member, Damian Woetzel.

                                Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago author and radio broadcast personality Studs Terkel, who let America’s common people tell their tales in such books as Working and The Good War, died Friday at his home, his publisher said. He was 96.  Mr. Terkel, who once described his … [Read more…]