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Mountain Stage
1:51 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Elizabeth Cook On Mountain Stage

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Elizabeth Cook performs on Mountain Stage.
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Originally published on Tue February 26, 2013 11:42 am

Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook makes her third appearance on Mountain Stage, recorded live on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown. Cook's first appearance on the show took place nearly 10 years ago, and since then her star has risen slowly and steadily.

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Live in Concert
1:16 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Live Thursday: Grizzly Bear In Concert

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Grizzly Bear began in 2004 as a bedroom recording project for Massachusetts native Ed Droste (DROE-stee).
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In the years since, Grizzly Bear has grown to a full band, giving sold-out shows at some of the most storied venues in the country, including the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C
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For this performance, the group highlighted cuts from Grizzly Bear's latest album, the richly layered Shields. Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor adds clarinet to the mix.
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Recreating the sonic scope of Shields required a carefully orchestrated assortment of effects pedals.
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Ed Droste's earliest recordings were moody and roughly sketched. But with the full band, the songs have become bigger and more polished.
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Fans expecting the gentler side of Grizzly Bear were taken by surprise with this performance. The show was bass-heavy, loud and at times epic.
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Drummer Christopher Bear has been with the group since it released its first album, Horn Of Plenty, in 2004. Shileds is Grizzly Bear's fourth full-length.
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For much of the 9:30 Club performance, the band was bathed in warm red light, with jellyfish-like lanterns that slowly rose and fell throughout the show.
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Grizzly Bear spent much of the first half of the 90-minute show on the group's latest batch of songs. Later in the set, the band dug deeper into its catalog, featuring songs such as "Knife" and "On A Neck, On A Spit" from the 2006 breakout album Yellow House.
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Grizzly Bear guitarist Daniel Rosen is also known as one-half of the duo Department Of Eagles, and released his own solo EP in 2012 called Silent Hour/Golden Mile.
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Toward the end of the set, Grizzly Bear treated fans to one of the group's most popular songs, "Two Weeks." Signer Droste tells NPR "it's just a simple reference to taking time off from all the stresses of life and trying to save up all those vacation days."
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Originally published on Tue October 2, 2012 10:54 am

Grizzly Bear began in 2004 as a bedroom recording project for Massachusetts native Ed Droste. His early songs were mostly trippy, atmospheric and roughly sketched soundscapes, but by 2006, Grizzly Bear had evolved into a full band and released the slightly more polished album Yellow House. The group's 2009 breakthrough, Veckatimist, and the new Shields are both richly layered productions with gorgeous, soaring harmonies and artful melodies and rhythms.

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The Two-Way
1:06 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Egypt Issues Arrest Warrant For Americans Behind Muhammad Film

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Los Angles County Sheriff's officers escort an unidentified person out of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula's home in Cerritos, Calif., early Saturday.
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By Eyder Peralta

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 2:26 pm

Egypt's general prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for eight Americans in relation to the anti-Muslim film that has sparked worldwide protests.

While it's not entirely clear who made the The Innocence of Muslims, a Coptic Christian from California named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has admitted having a role in the film's making.

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Music Reviews
1:00 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Brad Mehldau: (Unlikely) Songs By Other People

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Brad Mehldau's latest covers project, Where Do You Start, came out Tuesday.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 7:23 pm

At this point, there's nothing special about jazz musicians playing post-Beatles pop: It's just the new normal. But one of the trendsetters on that score was pianist Brad Mehldau and his versions of Radiohead and Nick Drake tunes. Now, Mehldau's trio has a new covers album out.

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Asia
12:42 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

With Honors Awaiting, Aung San Suu Kyi Visits U.S.

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Myanmar's Member of Parliament and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is making her first visit to the U.S. in twenty years.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, began a lengthy visit to the U.S. by meeting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in Washington. Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who was under house arrest for 15 years, is now free to travel and has been welcomed abroad as if she were a head of state.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 2:00 pm

It's been a long time since Aung San Suu Kyi visited the U.S., but it's a homecoming nonetheless — and this time with star treatment.

Suu Kyi, the opposition leader from Myanmar, also known as Burma, lived in New York from 1969-1971, while working for the United Nations, and her eldest son, Alexander Aris, studied and settled in the U.S.

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The Salt
12:21 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Fruit And Veggies Linked To Lower Obesity Rates In New State Fat Rankings

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Customers line up for farmers market produce on a corner in Washington, D.C., where people eat more fruits and veggies than in many states.
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By Allison Aubrey

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 4:32 pm

Every year, we dutifully report on the annual Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation state obesity rankings, and every year, it's a similar story — a handful of southern states, on the whole, are the biggest. (It's Mississippi, Louisiana, and West Virginia in 2011, in case you were wondering.)

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The Two-Way
12:21 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Chicago Teachers Scheduled To Vote On Contract

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Teacher Patty Westcott pickets outside Clissold Elementary School in Chicago on Tuesday.
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Originally published on Wed September 19, 2012 7:43 am

Update at 6:15 p.m. ET. Strike Suspended:

Chicago teachers voted to suspend a strike that had gone into its seventh day today.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that means that 350,000 students in the nation's third-largest school district will return to classrooms this week.

The AP reports:

"The union's House of Delegates voted Tuesday to suspend the strike after learning details of a tentative contract agreement.

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It's All Politics
12:19 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Obama Backers More Nuanced Than '47 Percent' — And So Are Romney's

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President Obama after speaking Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
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By Alan Greenblatt

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 1:26 pm

Mitt Romney has gotten into political hot water for asserting that "47 percent of the people" favor President Obama because they are "dependent upon government."

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The Two-Way
12:13 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Our Mistake: We Missed The Ball On Reporting Baseball's 500,000th Error

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Jose Reyes of the Miami Marlins.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 12:53 pm

This blogger makes mistakes, as sharp-eyed Two-Way readers who can spell and punctuate know all too well.

So errors are something familiar.

Which brings up this milestone: Miami Marlins shortstop Jose Reyes on Saturday committed what is thought to have been the 500,000th error in Major League history (since 1876, that is).

But did he?

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Politics
11:51 am
Tue September 18, 2012

Romney 'Secret Video,' Curveball Or Game Changer?

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The liberal magazine Mother Jones has released video clips of Mitt Romney making controversial remarks to a group of donors. The Romney campaign is scrambling to address the political fallout. Host Michel Martin discusses the comments with U.S. News and World Report columnist Mary Kate Cary and Voto Latino's Maria Teresa Kumar.

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