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...album. Fusion music often ends up combining the worst elements of two styles rather than the best. But Burnside is too good of a musician to let that happen. As a blues man, he's the real thing: a former sharecropper who sounds like he belongs more on a Smithsonian Folkways recording than a concert stage. Some of the most magical moments on this latest album come when Burnside shuts off the incessant drum beat behind him and just, as they say, does his thing. Unfortunately, the dance element of Come On In hardly matches Burnside's bluesy croonings. Except...
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), in conjunction with three other research institutions, have discovered an entire solar system orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae...
Though it sounds as though you may never want to leave town, the nation's capital is just 75 miles away. Chestertown is free of Washington's traffic and tempo but close enough that the Cantors go often to visit the Smithsonian museums. They also travel the 70 miles to Baltimore to visit its renowned aquarium...
...check local listings). The series, written by Elijah Wald, a music critic for the Boston Globe, and directed by Boston-based filmmaker John Junkerman, is a multimedia event: there's a corresponding seven-hour, seven-part series airing on Public Radio International; a 36-song, two-CD sound track (Smithsonian Folkways); and a 352-page companion book (St. Martin's). But the purpose of each is singularly focused: to document the contemporary musical traditions that thrive on the banks of the Mississippi, from Lake Itasca, the river's source, to where the waters empty into the Gulf of Mexico...
...CREAM CONE Americans did not start eating ice cream out of cones until 1904-at the world's fair in St. Louis, Mo. The Smithsonian recognizes Abe Doumar, a Lebanese immigrant, as the inventor. He rolled a waffle from one stall and put ice cream in it from another and sold the combination. He then created a machine for producing the cone...