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Tangled Up with Dylan: The Ballad of AJ Weberman
In 2006, A.J. Weberman, along with some of his former students, appeared in a documentary film about his exploits as a Dylanologist. The film includes a performance by Peel and Weberman of…
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Tangled Up with Dylan: The Ballad of AJ Weberman
In 2006, A.J. Weberman, along with some of his former students, appeared in a documentary film about his exploits as a Dylanologist. The film includes a performance by Peel and Weberman of “The Ballad of A. J. Weberman,” a tribute…
Free Chol Soo Lee
Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans, helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for…
Ethan Lim: Cambodian Futures in Food
This is Culinary Futurism. Filmmaker Dustin Nakao-Haider follows Chicago-based chef Ethan Lim as he creates vibrant dishes inspired by the rich, complex history of Cambodia. Drawing on his family’s culinary legacy of over half a century, Lim’s award-winning cooking imagines…
The Power Broker: The World that Robert Moses Built
MIKE & IKE Factory Tour
JUST BORN is a candy company in Pennsylvania that produces MIKE & IKE! Those candies you love until you hate them are surprisingly complex to produce. (Source: Just Born Quality Confections)
Why This Billionaire is Spending Millions to be Young Again
Blueprint is a public science experiment to determine whether it’s possible to stay the same biological age. This requires slowing down aging processes as much as possible and then reversing the aging that has happened. Currently Bryan Johnson’s speed of…
Carly Simon on Her Marriage to James Taylor
Journalist Dan Rather interviews Carly Simon on her marriage to James Taylor, which made them one of music’s greatest power couples.
The Making of 10cc’s ‘I’m Not in Love’
Find out how this classic soft rock song — based on multiple vocal tracks — in this short documentary about the band 10cc.
Bob Dylan and Santana Talk to Annoying Interviewer
Bob Dylan likes Manic Street Preachers and Santana likes African music from France. Dylan says The Wallflowers’ music “sounds good” to him and that “everybody’s got to be the first somebody.”
Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street
Little Rock Arkansas’s West 9th Street was once a vibrant, African-American business and entertainment district. Taborian Hall is the only remaining historic structure on West 9th Street and stands as a living witness of the street’s former glory days. Throughout…