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Feature Stories Archive
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| 1/7/98 | Adopt a Sculpture | Tamar Charney |
| Description Split Ring by Clement Meadmore stood over the foundation in front of Hudson's in Grand Rapids Woodland Shopping Center for more than 20 years. But now the hudge black metal ring is wainting in storage to find out who's going to adopt it. Interviews Steve Lash, Manager of Concept Design at Michelin |
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| 1/7/98 | Business of Perugino | Wendy Nelson |
| Description An exhibition of works by renaissance artist Perugino (Peru-jeeno) opened in Grand Rapids to rave reviews from both the local and national media. But the spotlight's not just on the show, there's been a lot of attention given to its location. Michigan Radio's Wendy Nelson reports. Interviews |
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| 1/8/98 | Tires in All Colors | Tamar Charney |
| Description Tires can now be purple, green, red, you name it. And you can see some of these colorful tires at this year's North American International Auto show. Colored tires are a new idea that originally came out of the Michelin student design competition. Interviews |
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| 1/9/98 | Tekqua | Tamar Charney |
| Description One of the things that draws people to the North American International Auto Show is the way out dream cars that push the boundaries of car design. Insiders call them concept cars. But there's more to a concept car than just fun, many advances in car technology originated in these fantasy cars. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports that students designed one of this year's wildest concept cars. Interviews
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| 1/21/98 | Borka's Books | Tamar Charney |
| Description Recently films and personal stories about the disintegration of Yugoslavia have started to emerge. These works are often resonate with people when news reports and other accounts of the war haven't. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports there a woman living in here in Michigan who has been telling the tales of her life in Yugoslavia through talks and books. Interviews |
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| 1/26/98 | WQRS Rocks | Jerome Vaughn |
| Description Symphonies around the country have been contending with declining ticket sales and other budgetary woes. As Jerome Vaughn reports, symphonies aren't the only organizations having a tough time selling classical music: Classical music radio has fallen on troubled times. Detroit's commercial classical station WQRS recently changed its format to alternative rock. Interviews |
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| 1/29/98 | The Seventh Dream | Tamar Charney |
| Description The headlines are everywhere - stories about children and violence. A few years ago, the Flint Youth Theater group turned the violence children live with into a theatrical work called "The 7th Dream." Monologues, interpretive dance, and video montage offer true accounts of violence in young people's everyday lives. All the text in the piece was culled from writings by students in the Flint School System. ("The 7th Dream" was presented on Capitol Hill on February 4 and 6.) Interviews
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| 2/5/98 | Gwen Frostic | Gretchen Millich |
| Description 91 year old Gretchen Frostic makes block prints of the natural world that surrounds her studio in Benzonia Michigan. Her prints and studio are a popular destination for visitors around Michigan. Gretchen Millich visited Frostic to talk about her life and the creative process. Interviews |
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| 2/16/98 | Historic Flags | Bob Whitman |
| Description Michigan's Capitol has undergone a complete restoration. The building looks almost exactly as it did when it opened in 1897. But there is one element still missing--the battle flags Michigan regiments carried with them in the Civil War. Today, the Capitol Committee and the State Historical Museum are trying to raise money to preserve the flags. Interviews |
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| 2/18/98 | Exquisite Corpse | Tamar Charney |
| Description A surrealist parlor game is being played in caf5s, homes, and schools all over Ann Arbor. The local popularity of this game called Exquisite Corpse is due to an exhibit at the Ann Arbor Art Center called the Exquisite Corpse, Revealed. Michigan artists were teamed up to play Exquisite Corpse. The exhibit consists of the art work that is created by the game. Interviews |
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| 2/18/98 | Art Commission | Tamar Charney |
| Description The Ann Arbor City Council approved a resolution to form the Ann Arbor City Arts Commission. The new commission will act as a clearinghouse for public art projects in Ann Arbor. Interviews |
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| 2/19/98 | Narratives and Museums | Tamar Charney |
| Description Kimberly Camp, president of the Museum of African American History in Detroit, tells the story of African American history. She's giving a talk as part of a series of lectures presented by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities called "Museums and Narrative." The lectures look at the narratives or stories told by museums. Interviews |
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| 2/24/98 | COSI - Ned Kahn: Weather Artist | Tamar Charney |
| Description A traveling exhibit of science sculpture has made its Midwestern stop at Toledo's Center of Science and Industry, or COSI. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney caught up with the creative force behind this exhibit. He's Ned Kahn, a sculptor who uses the forces of nature as his medium. Interviews
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| 3/2/98 | East Grand Rapids Movie | Wendy Nelson |
| Description Go to any video store, and you'll see there's no shortage of movies about high school students and their antics. So hearing the news that a Hollywood studio is making yet another one of these films might elicit a yawn from most people, but not in East Grand Rapids. Adam Hertz is a 1991 graduate of East Grand Rapids High and his screenplay about the attempt of four high school boys to lose their virginity prior to prom has resulted in public outrage and critical editorials. Interviews |
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| 3/5/98 | Monet at Ann Arbor | Tracey Samilton |
| Description "Monet at Vetheuil", an exhibit at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, features paintings that chronicle Monet's life during a harsh winter in Vetheuil. During that period, Monet discovered he could revisit a scene time and time again: a realization that yielded some of his most famous serial works - waterlilies, the haystacks and cathedrals. The exhibit has been a blockbuster for the U-M Art Museum. Interviews |
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| 3/12/98 | Odawa with Teacher Kenny Pheasant | Tamar Charney |
| Description Odawa is a Native American language that originated in the Great Lakes area hundreds of years ago, yet until recently the language was all but extinct. But now Odawa is experiencing something of a revival. As Roger Wight reports, Kenny Pheasant is even teaching Odawa in northern Michigan's public schools. Interviews
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| 3/17/98 | New Teaching Strategies | Tamar Charney |
| Description New technology has been changing everything from art to science. Looking at a national radio project called Education FOREcast News Service, Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney examined how teachers are being more effective thanks to technology. In Midland, Dow High School took part in a study evaluating some new anatomy teaching tools. Interviews |
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| 3/26/98 | Nuns | Wendy Nelson |
| Description Music therapy isn't new. In fact, it's been used in the U.S. for at least 50 years. But the popularity of music therapy has grown significantly in recent years. As it catches on, music therapists are reaching out to new groups, and in West Michigan forging some interesting alliances. Wendy Nelson has a look at how music therapy is being used to change the lives of autistic children and juvenile delinquents. Interviews |
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| 4/7/98 | DSO EuroTour '98 | Tamar Charney & |
| Description In April and May Detroit Symphony Orchestra heads to Detroit Metro Airport to embark on a whirlwind European concert tour. It will be the first major tour in almost a decade. Orchestra members talk about acting as ambassadors for Detroit, the rigors of touring, and the difference between European and American audiences Interviews
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| 4/7/98 | Our Two Nutcrackers | Tamar Charney |
| Description This year the Detroit Opera Theater will house a traditional performance of the Nutcracker as well as the Harlem Nutcracker. The Ann Arbor-based University Musical Society commissioned Donald Byrd to create the Harlem Nutcracker in 1996. Now with the help of the Arts League of Michigan, the University of Michigan, and the Detroit Opera House, it will play in Detroit. Interviews |
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| 4/7/98 | Hillary Clinton | Tamar Charney |
| Description The University of Michigan's Year of Humanities and Arts (YOHA) is concluding with a speech by Hillary Clinton. The First Lady will discuss the Millennium Project and efforts to celebrate and promote this century's history and heritage. |
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| 4/9/98 | Patrick "The Twig Guy" Dougherty | Tamar Charney |
| Description Sculptor Patrick Dougherty travels around the country weaving sticks into large walk-through sculptures. He created one of these pieces last year for Western Michigan University. And now with the help of volunteers and interested passersby, Dougherty is building 12 of these fairy tale-like spiraling structures on the corner of the University of Michigan campus. Tamar Charney takes a look at how he builds these nest-like creations. Interviews |
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| 4/15/98 | Last True Story of the Titanic | Bob Whitman |
| Description April 15th was the 86th anniversary of the night the world hasn't forgotten -- the sinking of the Titanic. What happened that night has been the subject of heavily researched articles, books and films. Yet new facets of the story keep turning up. A Michigan marine artist named Jim Clary was involved in the hunt for the liner. He's written a book called "The Last True Story of the Titanic." Bob Whitman paid him a visit to see his artwork and to talk about the Titanic. Interviews |
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| 4/20/98 | H-Net | Tamar Charney |
| Description A new web site called Michigan Culture Link is a joint project by the Michigan Humanities Council, The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Michigan State University, and H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line. The web site features a state wide calendar of cultural activities, resources for schools and teachers, and lists of touring performers and speakers. Interviews |
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| 4/25/98 | Gilmore: The Man, Myth, & Festival | Tamar Charney |
| Description The fourth Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival celebrates keyboard music and the artists who play them with concerts, master classes, and public education programs: more than 100 events - all held in the communities surrounding Kalamazoo. Gilmore was a philanthropist who supported struggling artists. After his death the Gilmore Festival and Gilmore Artist Award were established by the Gilmore Foundation. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at the festival and the unusual selection strategy employed by the Gilmore Artist Award. Interviews
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| 4/27/98 | Alpenhorns | Wendy Nelson |
| Description A couple of Grand Rapids horn players have taken up a new instrument - the Alpenhorn. So far, neither musician is playing the alpenhorn professionally, but they are making use of the 12-foot-long alpenhorn as a teaching tool. It seems the large, unusual looking and sounding instrument is turning heads and interesting people in horns. Interviews |
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| 4/28/98 | Detroit Boys Choir | Jerome Vaughn |
| Description It was announced earlier this week that a New York tradition is coming to Detroit...to stay. Efforts are underway to create a Detroit version of the Boys Choir of Harlem. The Boys Choir of Harlem is best known for its fabulous singing...Singing which has lead to worldwide tours and a number of recordings. And now the organization is looking to enrich the lives of inner city children elsewhere, by lending its expertise to fledgling choirs in other cities. Interviews |
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| 4/30/98 | Richard Tillinghast: The Professor's House | Tamar Charney |
| Description Poet Richard Tillinghast's newest endeavor is reciting poetry with his son's band. The nationally known poet, essayist, and University of Michigan professor of English joined the band because it's fun and it's a way to interest a new generation in poetry. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney introduces listeners to Tillinghast's poetry and his collaborations with musicians and visual artists. Interviews |
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| 5/6/98 | Arthur Miller | Tamar Charney |
| Description University of Michigan graduate and award winning playwright Arthur Miller was honored at a dinner in New York City. At the dinner Miller and UofM President Lee Bollinger spoke of plans to construct an Arthur Miller theater in Ann Arbor. The two also recounted tales of Miller discovering his talent as a playwright while a UofM student. Miller's new play Mr. Peter's Connections is being performed at New York's Signature Theater Company. Interviews |
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| 5/7/98 | CMU Broadcasting | Joan Silvi |
| Description At their latest meeting, trustees at Central Michigan University unanimously reaffirmed their commitment to C-M-U's public broadcasting system, which is one of the largest in the nation. The vote seems uncontroversial, but the events leading up to it have been anything but that Interviews |
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| 5/12/98 | Girl Givers | Wendy Nelson |
| Description The word "philanthropist" is likely to conjure up images of wealthy old businessmen, doling out money in the name of doing good and reducing their tax liability at the same time. But in West Michigan, an innovative program is challenging that image introducing young women to the world of philanthropy, using a hands-on approach. Michigan Radio's Wendy Nelson reports on "Young Women for Change." Interviews |
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| 5/21/98 | I Am Opera | Michielle Corum |
| Description Twice a week, inner city children have been gathering to learn about opera, thanks to a program developed by the Interlochen Center for the Arts. The program is called Interlochen Arts Mentorship, or "I Am." Interlochen alumni in the Detroit area are working with the Michigan Opera Theater to interest children in opera. Michelle Corum takes listeners though a day at the "I Am" opera workshop. Interviews |
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| 5/22/98 | Putt Putt Modernism | Mike Perini & Tamar Charney |
| Description The Flint Institute of Arts is showing an exhibit called Putt Modernism. It's a nine-hole Putt-Putt golf course designed by artists. Many of the holes offer an artist's commentary on societal issues like the homeless, AIDS and censorship, while others look at the lighter side of culture and kitsch, sending up everything from Elvis to putt-putt. Mike Perini takes listeners on a journey through the Putt Modernism course. |
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| 5/27/98 | Portraits of Pride: Michigan's Veterans | Wendy Nelson |
| Description A West Michigan photographer is working to keep the images of veterans in the public eye for more than just Memorial Day. The exhibit "Michigan Veterans of Five Wars" features portraits of Michigan's veterans captured on film by David Dejonge. Interviews |
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| 6/5/98 | Pewabic Pottery | Gretchen Millich |
| Description In the City of Detroit, a small ceramics business has been operating for nearly a century. Pewabic Pottery became famous in the early 1900s during the Arts and Crafts period for its distinctive handmade tiles. As Gretchen Millich reports, Pewabic is now enjoying new-found popularity. Interviews |
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| 6/5/98 | Face 2 Interface: New Media & the Spectator | Tamar Charney |
| Description Face to Interface: New Media and the Spectator is an art exhibit currently on view at the Ann Arbor Art Center Exhibition Gallery. Works from five different new media artists from around Michigan are exhibited on a computer of sorts. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney got a tour of the exhibit from the exhibit's curator who says he's hoping people will start evaluating New Media Art the same way they do more traditional art. Interviews |
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| 6/19/98 | National Youth Orchestra Festival | Michelle Corum & Roger Wight |
| Description In June, over 500 of America's top young musicians gathered in Interlochen, MI, to take part in the National Youth Orchestra Festival. It's the first time in decades that such an event has taken place in this country. Over the course of the five-day festival, these students study with conductors and musicians from leading orchestras as they prepare and perform festival repertoire. Reporter Michelle Corum prepared a sound portrait during the National Youth Orchestra's first rehearsal with conductor James DePriest. Then Roger Wight talked with students and faculty at the conclusion of the festival to find out how things worked out. Interviews |
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| 6/25/98 | Quilts | Tamar Charney |
| Description An exhibit called "To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions" shows how quilting was introduced to Native American communities by European missionaries and the craft very quickly gained popularity as quilts were adopted into tribal rituals and practices. But, even though quilting shows up in just about every tribe from here to Hawaii, it has been an overlooked native art form until now. Marsha MacDowell and Kurt Dewhurst of the MSU Museum have curated the exhibit for the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian to let more people know about native quilting traditions. Interviews |
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| 6/26/98 | Green Acres | Tamar Charney |
| Description On June 26, an illustrated children's book, The Gardner, will be awarded a Caldcott Honor for its illustrations. This same book has already claimed over a dozen awards ranging from a Christopher to an ADDY Honor. The book's creators are David Small and Sarah Stewart. Small is a writer and illustrator with over 24 children's books bearing his name. He and Sarah Stewart have created three books together including The Library and the Money Tree which are favorites of adults and children alike. Small also draws for the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney took a drive out to the couple's historic home on Michigan's Saint Joseph River and found out the couple's feelings of being out of place in rural Michigan feed the emotional content of their children's books. Interviews |
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| 6/29/98 | Asylum Sale | Michelle Corum & Tamar Charney |
| Description People from all across the state drove to Traverse City for a look at items at an unusual liquidation sale. Along with historic furniture and books, the Northern Michigan Asylum sold off its wheelchairs, leather restraints, and other antique medical devices including a fever inducer cabinet and a early electro-shock machine. Interlochen Public Radio's Michelle Corum stopped by the old hospital to have a look at the items and the people interested in purchasing pieces of medical history. Interviews
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| 6/30/98 | Calder | Wendy Nelson |
| Description Over the span of his long and productive career, Alexander Calder created more than 16-thousand works of art - from his early wire sculptures, to the mobiles he invented, to his later public monuments. In Michigan he's best known for the piece he created for Grand Rapids. And perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Grand Rapids is a place where Calder's art has worked its way into people's everyday lives. Interviews
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| 7/1/98 | Lighthouse Museum | Roger White |
| Description Mackinac City is one of four places being considered as the site of a national lighthouse museum. During the past several months, the Lighthouse Site Selection Committee has visited Staten Island, NY; Point Judith, RI; and Hull, MA. Recently they paid their visit to Mackinac City. Roger Wight tagged along with the committee during the visit and talked to people in Mackinac City to find out what they think about having a lighthouse museum in their town. Interviews |
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| 7/12/98 | Michigan's Great Outdoor Culture | Tamar Charney |
| Description Few family trips to a state or a national park are complete without the campfire presentation about nature with a park ranger. This summer visitors to Northern Michigan's parks find that the campfire programs are about Michigan's history and culture instead of flora and fauna. Tamar Charney reports on Michigan's Great Outdoors Culture Tour Interviews |
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| 7/13/98 | African American Disc Jockeys | Scott Pohl |
| Description A new book, written by a Telecommunications professor a Michigan State University, explores the history and importance African-American disc-jockeys in the United States. In "Legendary Pioneers of Black Radio," author Gilbert Williams examines how these DJ's became popular and how they changed radio and the lives of their listeners. Interviews |
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| 7/15-17/98 | Behind the Art: A Diary of an Artist | Tamar Charney |
| Description "It's so funny because I wanted to be an artist so I could express myself and create and do what I wanted...but now I have to be creative on demand." These words are part of an audio diary kept by potter Melissa Emery as she creates work for an upcoming art fair. It would seem artists like Melissa lead a charmed life creating art, traveling the country to art fairs, and generally following their muses. But things aren't quite so rosy. The stress of uncertain finances take their toll, as does the pressure of having to be creative on a deadline. Behind the Art: A Diary of an Artist is a first person radio story told through Melissa's comments during the five days she spent wired with a microphone. | ||
| 7/17-18/98 | Saginaw Carousel | Tamar Charney |
| Description An unusual carousel opened to the public in Saginaw. It's unusual because it's hand carved. These days carousel horses are made from fiberglass, or occasionally by carving machines. But, for the past year and a half firemen, priests, and other people from all walks of life have been spending hour upon hour making a carousel the way they were made at the turn of the century. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney took a ride on the carousel and found out how this community project came to be. Interviews
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| 7/15/98 | 5 Foot Art | Rick Jenness, Stephen Kantor & Tamar Charney |
| Description Michigan Radio sent interns Stephanie Kantor and Rick Jenness to the Ann Arbor Art Fair to search for unusual art that's catching people's fancy. And sure enough there among the pottery and jewelry were five- foot-tall human statues made from molded resin that was then painted. There's a Catholic cardinal, an old potato-picking man, a violinist and an 18th century French man. These realistic-looking, almost life-size sculptures are created by an artist new to the Ann Arbor Art Fair -- Susan Gysler of New York State. Interviews |
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| 7/17/98 | Anti Art Fair | Rick Jenness & Tamar Charney |
| Description Rick Jenness went to an Ann Arbor park to talk with residents and find out how art fairs affect the lives of Ann Arborites. Interviews |
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| 7/17/98 | Bird on a Stick | Mike Perini |
| Description A satirical commentary in song about the questionable quality of some of the "art" at the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. |
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| 7/24/98 | US Savings Bond Artist | Tamar Charney |
| Description A new series of US Savings Bonds features artwork by a Detroit area artist. Interviews |
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| 7/24/98 | Human Zoo | Wendy Nelson |
| Description The Human Zoo is a piece of performance art that comments on the current state of the human condition. The mixed messages that society gives to women are portrayed by the Menstrual Minstrel in the "Uterine Room." The "Crack Room" and "AIDS Room" illustrate the toll disease and addiction take on society. Other rooms comment on domestic violence and other societal ills. There's also a "Bad Mime Room" -- yes, the mime talks! Interviews |
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| 7/27/98 | Voices: Crime Prevention Through Art | Tamar Charney |
| Description As emphasis in juvenile justice has shifted from prevention and rehabilitation to punishment, new programs aimed at preventing crime by diverting kids to other activities are often criticized. For the past year, Kalamazoo has been experimenting with one of these controversial programs. A year-long pilot project called "Voices: Positive Self Expression" is a crime prevention program that teaches young people art. It's run by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and funded by a Law Enforcement Block Grant. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at Voices during one of its last sessions before funding ends in September. Interviews |
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| 8/17/98 | Sculpted Book World | Tamar Charney |
| Description The next time you are rummaging through piles of old books at a garage sale or a used book store take a look around you. Among the other fellow readers or collectors you may discover artists - shopping for their art supplies. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports on artists who create sculpture with books. Exhibits at Cranbrook Art Museum and the U of M Special Collections Library show how artists make art from books that have been painted on, burnt, cut up, and left outside to weather and rot. Artists such as Michele Duchamp started using books this way almost a century ago. Interviews
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| 8/20/98 | Blind Art Camp | Tamar Charney |
| Description While many people assume being blind would cut a person off from the world of art, a Western Michigan man's work shows that art that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye, is often aesthetically pleasing to touch. Paul Ponchillia is a professor at Western Michigan University, a sculptor, and the organizer of camps to make up deficits when visually impaired kids are mainstreamed. For years he's run a sports camp, now he's put together an art camp. The kids learn sculpture, drama, and storytelling. We visit Ponchillia at his studio and the camp to learn how art can be done by sight or by touch. Interviews |
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| 8/21/98 | Angels at the DIA | Tamar Charney |
| Description On Sunday, Aug. 23, the exhibit "The Invisible Made Visible: Angels from the Vatican" becomes visible to the general public at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney got a preview of the exhibition. Interviews |
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| 9/11/98 | Sleeping Bear Book | Michelle Corum |
| Description A famous legend has been put into written and illustrated form, sold in bookstores, and proposed as the "official state children's book." But seeing the legend turned into a commodity bothers some people. Reporter Michelle Corum talks with some storytellers about their relationship with the story of the mother bear and her cubs who must swim across Lake Michigan. Interviews
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| 10/1/98 | International Computer Music Festival | Tamar Charney |
| Description The 23rd International Computer Music Conference's 1998 gathering was held in Ann Arbor. Musicians, engineers, computer programmers, and physicists gather to share ideas about using computers in music and other related art forms. It's a conference that helps create innovations in music, art, dance, and the tools that create these art forms. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at the conference and a tool that turns a dancer's body into a musical instrument. Interviews |
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| 10/8/98 | That History Word | Tamar Charney |
| Description Remember the term pluralism? If, in the decades after junior high American history class, you're still feeling like maybe you don't quite understand the term and why it's so important to the history of this country, there's a web site that might help. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney visited the site with its two creators to find out: what is pluralism? Interviews |
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| 10/8/98 | Tillinghast CD | Tamar Charney |
| Description Follow up story on new CD by poet and University of Michigan Professor Richard Tillinghast. Interviews |
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| 10/26/98 | Shattered Mirror | Tamar Charney |
| Description A new experimental opera opens Wednesday (Oct 28th) at the University of Michigan. It's called The Shattered Mirror and it's based on the myths and ideas of Joseph Campbell. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney stopped by a rehearsal to talk to the opera's creator about the work and some of the new instruments created for the opera. Interviews Michael Udow, University of Michigan
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| 10/27/98 | Book Terrors | Tamar Charney |
| Description The scholarly or academic book has always been a niche publication. But the future of these books about narrow but often important topics may be in question. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at a series of forums being held at the UofM that look at the future of the paper based academic book. Interviews |
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| 10/31/98 | Haunted Lighthouses | Michelle Corum |
| Description Lighthouses are meant to attract attention, and that they do. Michigan has a lighthouse museum in the works. And lighthouse trading cards are being swapped like baseball cards. But lighthouses can also be mystifying, even eerie. For Halloween Interlochen Public Radio's Michelle Corum offers this look at spooky Great Lakes lighthouse stories. Interviews |
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| 11/2/98 | Blue Stain | Frida Waara |
| Description Lake Superior's shoreline is a magnet for artists. Whatever the woods and waters do to their souls is sure to show up in their poems, paintings, or photographs. For craftsmen the influence may not be so obvious, but reporter Frida Waara found a cabinetmaker in Marquette with a "Lake Effect" all his own. Interviews
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| 11/5/98 | Steppettes Tap Dancing | Tamar Charney |
| Description Tap dance has experienced a resurgence over the past decade or so, thanks in part to the introduction of Hip-Hop into tap. A Flint area trio of teenagers is starting to make a name for themselves with their hip-hop-inspired tapping. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney takes a look at the history of tap dance and the changes in the art form that have inspired the Steppettes. Interviews |
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| 11/13/98 | Secret Spaces | Tamar Charney |
| Description Whether it's to hide, play, or create imaginary worlds kids seek hideouts, forts, attic stairways, and other small secret spaces. But there are people who are concerned that kids are losing the opportunity to find these special places particularly the outdoor ones. Interviews |
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| 11/20/98 | Between Two Worlds: Arab Americans in Detroit | Marisa Helms |
| Description A new exhibit at Michigan State University called "Between Two Worlds: Arab Americans in Greater Detroit" aims to introduce people to the rich tapestry of Arab-American culture. The exhibit features mementos of everyday life, from photographs of a full century of immigration to religious artifacts and traditional musical instruments. Interviews |
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| 11/23/98 | Magnificent Obsessions | Wendy Nelson |
| Description A group of West Michigan museums is showcasing the sometimes unusual and often-times vast collections of area residents. The collections feature canoes, autographs, wooden boxes, and even lips. Wendy Nelson has a look at the Grand Rapids Public Museum's exhibit, "Magnificent Obsessions." Interviews |
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| 11/26/98 | Harlem Nutcracker | Tamar Charney |
| Description The Harlem Nutcracker is well on its way to becoming a holiday classic. The music comes from Duke Ellington's version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Additional music from composer David Berger. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney spoke with David Berger and members of the Detroit children's cast about the Harlem Nutcracker. Interviews
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| 12/4/98 | Composer for Hire | Tamar Charney |
| Description For most performances classical musicians play the standard repertoire - works by Bach, Beethoven, and so on. Occasionally, though, classical soloists want something special and personal to play. As Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney reports that's when composers like one West Michigan man come into the picture. Interviews |
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| 12/8/98 | Spirituality & Medicine | Bill Poorman |
| Description New medical studies have been launched at the University of Michigan and the Karmanos Cancer Institute that look at how religion and spirituality can play a role in health and healing. Bill Poorman talks with clergy members, doctors, and patients about the growing interest by medical science in combining spirituality and medical practice Interviews |
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| 12/14/98 | Poetry of Southwest Michigan | Tamar Charney |
| Description There's a new anthology of poetry and stories out that's written by the people who make southwest Michigan their home. Writings by farmers, school teachers, and even children tell the often untold stories of small-town rural life. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at the writers and organizers behind the community writing project, "Home and Other Places: Voices of Southwest Michigan." Interviews
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| 12/22/98 | Beat Poet Papers | Tamar Charney |
| Description In the past couple of months, the University of Michigan Libraries received a collection of papers, photographs, and first-edition books that belonged to poet Robert Frost. The donation from Frost's grandson will be added to the University of Michigan's already substantial Frost collection. The library has also acquired an enormous collection of writings, personal papers, and other items from a living poet. These materials will form the foundation of a research archive relating to contemporary poetry, in particular, beat poetry. Michigan Radio's Tamar Charney has a look at the newly purchased Anne Waldman archive. Interviews |
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| 12/22/98 | Auldlangxiety | Mike Perini & Tamar Charney |
| Description The holiday season is about family, friends, and being part of yearly traditions. Michigan Radio's Mike Perini discovered how important holiday traditions can be when one year it looked like a tradition might not happen. It's the story of Auldlangxiety. |
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| 12/23/98 | Boys and Girl Choir of Detroit's First Concert | Jerome Vaughn |
| Description In the spring of 1998, the formation of a Boys Choir of Detroit based on the Harlem boys choir was announced. The goal of the choir is the same as the Harlem Boys Choir to teach kids to sing and improve and better their lives. Over the past months auditions were held for a boys and a girls choir, rehearsals commenced, and lessons were taught about commitment and obeying rules. Jerome Vaughn has a look at the choirs as they get ready for their first major concert. Interviews |
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