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Dmitry Medvedev: America’s BFF (Except, not forever.)
Vladimir Putin will be Russia’s president. Again.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 11, 2012 -
Frederic Franklin: Dancing Through the 20th Century
In 2010, at 95 years old, the ballet dancer Frederic Franklin was still performing on stage. Franklin got his big break in Paris, back in the 1930s.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Improv in Bangalore, India
Improvisational theater is common in the west, and it’s a mainstay of comedy in the United States. Think of Chicago’s Second City, The P.I.T.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Charles Dickens’ Biggest Fan
In 2012 fans of Charles Dickens are celebrating the bicentenary of the author’s birth. Many Dickens lovers will be traveling to the UK to celebrate.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Japanese Jazz Opera
The standard view of Japanese popular culture, at least here in the United States, is that it’s wacky, chaotic and impossible to fathom. That’s the first reaction you might get from a video I happened across online.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Engineering the Climate: Who Gets to Decide?
With countries facing stalemates over cuts in greenhouse gas pollution, some are looking to massive technological interventions to help cool the planet. But that raises serious ethical questions: If such technologies were invented, who would get to decide whether and when to use them?Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Owning a Piece of the Berlin Wall
Twenty years ago, the wall that divided East and West Berlin for decades came down in dramatic fashion. Since that time, the Berlin Wall has been broken up and distributed around the world.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Austria’s Vegetable Orchestra
The Vegetable Orchestra is a musical ensemble from Vienna, Austria. The performers play instruments constructed entirely from fresh vegetables.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Chandrika Tandon
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon sings a form of Indian classical music. Her most recent album ‘Soul Call’ was nominated for a Grammy.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Diplomacy and Design at the United Nations
There’s always been a tension in the way the UN Security Council works, between being a working forum for diplomacy, and an outward-looking chamber, transparently accountable to the world. In fact, the nuances of diplomacy are expressed in the very fabric of the UN building’s design.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Blitz: Ghana’s rap ambassador
Blitz the Ambassador was born and raised in Accra, Ghana. But for 10 years his home has been the United States.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Clay Ross and Brazilian Bluegrass
Guitarist Clay Ross grew up in South Carolina. He made a name for himself on the music scene there, but he always had some reservations about his home state and its local music, including bluegrass: he associated both with xenophobia and even racism.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
South Africa’s Latest Pop Sensation: Zahara
A 23-year-old singer-songwriter from a small village in South Africa is taking that country’s music scene by storm. Her name is Zahara, and her album, Loliwe (‘train’ in the Xhosa language) has sold like wildfire since its release in 2011.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Why Democracy Remains Unlikely in Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy
In 2011 the so-called Arab Spring shook the foundations of regimes from Egypt to Libya. But could its ripples spread south to Swaziland?Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Swazi Soul: Bholoja
Bholoja is perhaps the biggest music star in the tiny southern African nation of Swaziland. I met him on a reporting trip late in 2011.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
Corruption and Personal Accountability in India
In 2011, news channels in India were filled with talk of officials on the take. The reported scams ranged from the selling of telecoms licenses to the improper financing of the previous year’s Commonwealth Games.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 5, 2012 -
How Spiritual Gurus Exert Political Influence in India
In India, perhaps the biggest news story of 2011 was a high-profile campaign that mobilized thousands to protest against corruption. What made it distinctly Indian was one of the figures at the center of the protest: a bare-chested yoga guru named Baba Ramdev who undertook a public fast.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 4, 2012 -
Mayra Andrade: A New Musical Star for Cape Verde
Here’s a short profile of Mayra Andrade, a young singer from Cape Verde who’s been compared to the late, great Cesária Évora. Andrade holds Evoria in great esteem, but she’s without a doubt her own artist.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 4, 2012 -
The Travels of Naomi Molten
This is the great story of Naomi Molten, an 82-year-old Englishwoman who hitchhiked around the world in the 1950s. It’s a very small snapshot of her story, at least.Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 4, 2012 -
CGS: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
The 37-year-old Italian band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino trades in movement: never-ending, trance-inducing movement. The current leader, Mauro Durante, plays a large version of tambourine called the tamburello (it’s an animal skin stretched across a round wooden frame, with small, rough cymbals arranged on the edge.) When I interviewed him for this piece, Durante was playing [...]Collected in gallafent's videos Mar 4, 2012
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