KEEP LOOKING UP: Jack Horkheimer, host of PBS' spectacular five-minute astronomy show Star Gazer, closed each episode with this imperative. He passed away this past week and, shortly before his death, suggested that this be his epitaph. Last week also saw the passing of industrial designer David Rowland, theater director Christoph Schlingensief, anime filmmaker Satoshi Kon, photographer Herman Leonard and critic Frank Kermode. All offered a unique voice in their respective fields, fields that will always be thankful for their contributions. This week's AIR Stream is full of expressions of gratitude, from Sun Ra's ode to the Comet Kohoutek to Fatih Akin's implicit acknowledgment of the influence of Fassbinder on his work to Novos Baianos' appropriations of such musical genres as tropicália, chorinho and bossa nova. Gratitude abounds: so look up and tune in--we'll be grateful.
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AIR STREAM PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK
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Click here for more. Beyond the Subtitles #293: Fatih Akin, Soul Kitchen
Fatih Akin is one of the world's great directors. His latest film, Soul Kitchen, is an amiable comedy about a Berlin restaurant, two brothers, a crazy chef and tax collectors, and it marks a notable change of pace from his past endeavors. As he tells us here, his previous film, The Edge of Heaven, was written expressly for Fassbinder muse Hanna Schygulla, and explains how his latest effort was originally conceived as a lark. Click here for more. BOMB Magazine: Fiction for Driving: Charlie Smith
Click here for more. Radio Profiles: Travelgoat
Zachary Aarons joins host David Weinstein for a conversation about his multimedia travel site Travelgoat, which features video vignettes and articles on the secrets and historic treasures and terrors of cities around the USA. Aarons reveals a few unknowns about New York, including the story of the Collect Pond, an unfortunate mess of a "park," for lack of a better word, festering just down the block from the Clocktower. Click here for more. Beyond the Subtitles #294: Liev Schreiber, Salt
Hailed as one of the definitive actors of his generation, Liev Schreiber pursues in his film and theater roles a smörgåsbord of variously contrasting and complementary roles. Salt, his hit summer movie opposite Angelina Jolie, casts Schreiber as a resourceful CIA operative, while a year ago, in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, he was wonderfully convincing as a cross-dressing celebrant during the Summer of Peace and Love. Click here for more. Sonoridade #4: Novos Baianos
For the fourth edition of Sonoridade, host Béco Dranoff selects classics by Novos Baianos, the seminal musical collective that was almost impossibly prolific: from their foundation in Salvador in 1969 to their dissolution in 1978, the band released eight records. More impressive than the extent of their output is its breadth and depth: they fused for the first time such musical styles as samba, rock, tropicália, chorinho, bossa nova, psychedelia, MPB and more. Their 1972 album Acabou Chorare was recently voted The Most Important Brazilian Album Of All Time by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone. Click here for more episodes of Sonoridade.
Listen NOWBLURRINGradio: Episode 8
The Jam is on one end of this latest mix by DB, while the solo work of Jam front-man Paul Weller is on the other; everything in between was recorded at some point between The Jam's first album and Weller's most recent. It should come as little surprise, then, that, whether the other groups lean more toward the luminaries' New Wave tendencies, their post-punk experimentations, their pop rock glories or just their general sense of musical wanderlust, the ghost of the mod revivalists looms as a dancing influence throughout. Click here for more episodes of BLURRINGradio.
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LEGACY SHOWS IN THIS WEEK'S STREAM The Kalup Linzy Variety Show #2: Telling It Like It Is
This program features an unleashed Lawanda Page and a tamed Millie Jackson. Listen to what happens when Jackson keeps in what she usually lets loose, and when Page was not portraying the Bible-toting Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son. Click here for more. DJ Culture: Mikkel Hess, Hess is More
Mikkel Hess, of the eclectic and vigorously curious band Hess Is More, stops by the Clocktower to offer now-redundant evidence of the breadth of his musical influences. Click here for more. Experimental Composers: Margaret Noble, Orwell's 1984 Remixed
Contemporary sound artist Margaret Noble transforms Orwell's novel into a postmodern soundscape of modern media, original and sampled music, timeless news reports and more. Click here for more. Warm Up 2008: Au Revoir Simone
agnès b. presented this live performance by then-only-recently-discovered dreamy, nostalgic electropop of Au Revoir Simone, which took place as part of at PS1 Warm Up on July 19, 2008. Available only in the AIR Stream. Warm Up 2007: Mike Simonetti
DJ Mike Simonetti's adored labels Trouble Man Unlimited and Italians Do It Better sponsored this live performance of his at PS1 Warm up on August 11, 2007. Available only in the AIR Stream. Sonorama: Sun Ra: The Concert for the Comet Kohoutek
A recording of the legendary 1973 show at New York's Town Hall. Kohoutek won't reappear for another 75,000, so tune in because, with the exception of Sun Ra, none of us will be around to see it again. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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