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...your hotel concierge will know how to find it. NEKA Suteja Neka is Ubud's foremost art dealer and patron, and his gallery, tel: (62-361) 975 034, houses much good Balinese art, including beautiful examples of traditional shadow puppets. These are one of Indonesia's best-known folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate artists who have called Bali home over the years, including Rudolf Bonnet and Arie Smit. SENIWATI GALLERY OF ART BY WOMEN This...
...economic boom in the past several years. Real estate values were skyrocketing and major casino chains from Las Vegas were building resorts along the water. All of that is gone. The rich white vacationers from New Orleans have left. What remains is a desperate population of working class folk trying to piece their lives back together...
...best station I made was centered around a cool folk singer named Greg Brown. I love the guy's work, but he doesn't have a monopoly on gravelly harmonies and ramblin' acoustic guitar. I knew that going in, and was happy to get a stream of his fellow folksters, including some exceptional unknowns, as well as giants like Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens...
Dylan was a sensation in the small folk world as soon as he started writing his own stuff. Turned down by Baez's label, Vanguard ("We don't record freaks here," the bosses supposedly said), he caught a wild break when legendary producer John Hammond signed him to the ultraconservative Columbia Records. In less than two years, Blowin' in the Wind was a smash for Peter Paul & Mary, and two years later, Like a Rolling Stone...
When Dylan went electric, the folkies reacted as if they had been electrocuted. In the documentary, Seeger still seethes at the memory of Dylan's set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. "I said, 'Goddammit, it's terrible,'" he recalls. "'If I had an ax, I'd chop the mike cable right now.'" Some old fans felt the same. In those days the second half of a Dylan concert, when he worked in front of a small band (later known as the Band), was frequently punctuated by audience cries of "Traitor!" and "Judas...