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...stuff on a Philadelphia FM station and attended his first concert at our Town Hall. The local folk club, The Second Fret at 19th and Sansom Streets, hosted most of the singers Dylan hung out with and learned from. Dave Van Ronk played there; the gravel-voiced Brooklyn bear was one of my favorites, and an inspiration to the young Dylan. Indeed, I thought Dylan's "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" was a radio-friendly bowdlerization of Van Ronk's "Baby, Let Me Lay It on You." (Turns out Dylan learned the song from its author, Eric Von Schmidt...
...right to speak, and I respect (and would defend) that right. But what kind of freedom can we possibly aspire to if we cannot learn from the politics and views of others, if somebody else’s politics are so offensive to us that we cannot bear to listen to them, learn to understand them if not embrace them? Disruptive protest has its time and place, but so does listening to contrary opinion (which is not the same thing, I should add, as complacency...
...foreign box office. Offside was granted a screening at this year's Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, which is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Then, in advance of February's Berlin International Film Festival, at which Panahi's film picked up the Silver Bear, a group of participating Iranian directors was told by Ministry officials to speak freely to the foreign press. And last month, after women protested outside Tehran's stadium, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lifted the ban on women attending games. Some of the protesters were carrying signs saying we don't want...
...Baghdad ER" is a raw, unflinching look at the human cost of the three-year conflict. The doctors and nurses who bear witness play starring roles in a documentary that offers close-ups of medical heroes at work and play. Not surprisingly, a few voice despair over the extent and relentlessness of the carnage. But their words reflect compassion more than partisanship, something the Washington brass could embrace as a sign of commitment to save every life. The film quotes a soldier saying he and his buddies are comforted to know "there's still a chance we'll survive...
...Mawurndjul is considered the Michelangelo of rarrk, then the MQB is his Sistine Chapel. Across 150 sq m of ground-floor ceiling, his sacred billabong at Milmilngkan ripples and sings; the rarrk's kinetic power suggesting the presence of Ngalyod. Nearby, his painted hollow-log column appears to bear the weight of the building. Mawurndjul visited Paris last September to hand-paint his lorrkkon log and supervise the ceiling work, joining his artisans on the scaffolding. "His eye followed every single line as it was painted," recalls Lonergan...