The Two-Way
3:22 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

48 Years After Divorce, Couple Is Giving Marriage Another Shot

Credit David Duprey / AP
The happy couple. Lena Henderson and Roland Davis, who will marry again on Saturday.

Originally published on Thu August 2, 2012 6:39 pm

As Lena Henderson says, she hadn't been expecting to remarry Roland Davis some 48 years after their divorce, but "you never know what tomorrow is going to bring."

All Things Considered today tells the touching story of how the two 85-year-olds are set to tie the knot again on Saturday in Buffalo, N.Y.

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Music
3:05 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

WDIY Special Programming at Musikfest's Lyrikplatz

Brand new this year, WDIY is hosting a very special block of programming as part of our sponsorship of this year's Lyrikplatz at Musikfest, located in the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema.

The programs will feature a WDIY host chatting with local and regional musicians and singer-songwriters. It will be part interview, part live performance, a bit like being in the studio when we have a live guest!

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Business
2:58 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Paying for College on Your Financial Choices

Host Laurie A. Siebert, CPA, CFP, AEP talks about how to pay for college in this week’s program. 

Deceptive Cadence
1:53 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? No, Seriously.

Credit Jeff Goldberg / Esto / courtesy of Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall: one of the world's greatest stages.

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 4:00 pm

We all know the punchline to the old joke, right?

Even people who wouldn't know Yo-Yo Ma from Yanni know Carnegie Hall is where the world's greats play. So how do unknown students and amateurs get to perform at one of the world's most celebrated venues?

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World Cafe
1:24 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Langhorne Slim On World Cafe

Credit Courtesy of Todd Roeth
Langhorne Slim.

Originally published on Mon September 17, 2012 3:46 pm

Singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim (real name: Sean Scolnick) took his stage name from his hometown of Langhorne in Bucks County, Pa. After studying at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, Slim moved to Brooklyn and built a national following by touring with The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. Eventually, he made his way to Portland, Ore., where he's lived since the 2009 release of Be Set Free.

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Book Reviews
12:56 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Jaime Hernandez Bridges The Indie-Vs.-Cape Divide

If only Nixon could go to China, only indie-comics master Jaime Hernandez could produce God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls, the brightest, purest, most quintessentially superheroic superhero yarn in years.

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Music Reviews
12:47 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Digging Up The 'Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans'

Originally published on Thu August 2, 2012 9:47 pm

Gil Evans, born a century ago this year, was a leading jazz arranger and composer starting in the 1940s, when he wrote for big bands. He helped organize Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, then arranged Davis' celebrated orchestra albums like Sketches of Spain. Evans, who had his own big bands that went electric in the 1970s and '80s, died in 1991, but some of his rare music has been newly recorded.

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The Torch
12:39 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Wiggin' Out: Bradley Wiggins Drinks To His Gold Medal, And The Mods Applaud

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The Mods' New King? Cyclist Bradley Wiggins sits on a chair that looks an awful lot like a throne, after winning an Olympic gold medal Wednesday. Hailed in Britain for his mod tastes and funny tweets, Wiggins celebrated his win by getting "blind drunk," he said.

Originally published on Thu August 2, 2012 6:54 pm

Fresh off becoming Britain's most-decorated Olympian, cyclist Bradley Wiggins is back in the news, as he updated his Twitter followers Wednesday night with details of how his celebration was going.

"Well what a day, blind drunk at the minute and overwhelmed with all the messages," Wiggins tweeted to his more than 400,000 followers. "Thank You everyone it's been emotional X."

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Concerts
12:36 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Perfume Genius In Concert

Originally published on Fri December 21, 2012 12:38 pm

Seattle-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Hadreas got his start on MySpace and was ultimately discovered by Matador Records, which put out his debut album, Learning, in 2010. Playing songs from both that record and its follow-up, Put Your Back N 2 It, Hadreas was joined by a full-backing band — quite an adjustment, given that he was playing tiny stages just a couple years back.

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Participation Nation
12:35 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Every Day Is Earth Day In Seattle, Wash.

Credit Courtesy of EarthCorps
EarthCorps volunteers help restore the Seattle countryside.

This month we are collecting your stories about the good things Americans are doing to make their community a better place. Some of your contributions will become blog posts and the project will end with a story that weaves together submissions to make a story of Americans by Americans for Americans.

Near their headquarters in a converted WWII naval building, EarthCorps members — brought in from all over the world — do morning yoga before departing to restore parks and creeks in and around Seattle.

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