Category: News & Entertainment

Austin City Limits

ACL has announced their lineup for the upcoming season.
Looks like a great schedule.
They’ll start the season off with Norah Jones on Oct. 6.

Five years, several Grammys and millions of records later, Norah Jones makes a triumphant return to the ACL stage. The Texas-born chanteuse showcases both old favorites and songs such as “My Dear Country” and “Thinking About You” from her recent bestselling album Not Too Late.

I haven’t found a schedule yet, but Brian Bailey’s reporting the show, going into it’s 33rd year will also feature Wilco, Van Morrison, Regina Spektor, Lucinda Williams, and John Mayer this season.
More great reasons to have a DVR – if it works properly.

StoryCorps

KERA’s “Think” had a great show yesterday with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay.
The StoryCorps project records American stories from all walks of lives by inviting individuals to bring a family member to the booth and spend 40 minutes interviewing them.
Once the session is over, the participants receive a copy of the interview and one copy is sent to the Library of Congress for safe keeping so generations to come can listen and learn from the stories.
From Think:

StoryCorps, the revolutionary project to record American stories, is visiting North Texas and we want you to participate. We’ll spend this hour with StoryCorps founder and MacArthur Fellow, Dave Isay. We’ll also hear a few of the remarkable stories the project has collected since its inception in 2003.

You can listen to the show here
Or find out more and listen to other clips at the StoryCorps website.
Such a great idea. If you’re in the Dallas/Fort Worth area I’d really recommend trying to get a family member to join you during a StoryCorps interview.
Or read the DIY Guide and record stories for your own family.

UMHB 48, Texas Lutheran 0

UMHB put the spank on Texas Lutheran yesterday.
Very nicely done. This is the third game UMHB seems to have walked all over their opponents.
It may easily be one of the best teams, if not the best teams the school has ever produced.
Should we start planning a trip to Salem yet?

Read the full story

Huckabee the hipster

GetReligion.com has an interesting look at Huckabee as the hipster.

In many ways, the news coverage of GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee reminds me of the type that would be given to a city’s new young, hip youth pastor. He’s got all the right moves, says all the right things, draws praise from nearly everyone, including his opponents, and — guess what? — he strums the guitar. One more thing: he’s got a great personal story of losing nearly enough weight to make up another person.
The focus on the new guy is primarily on how different he is from the typical image people have of pastors. To those writing profiles of him, it’s somehow shocking that a pastor could be, like, normal.
Huckabee’s media coverage has all these elements, and he’s a pastor nonetheless. The news profiles give off a tone of amazement as they describe what could be the new face of the religious right.

Still loving this interview on the Daily Show:
“I’m a conservative but I’m not mad at everybody over it.”
“I’m pro-life and I believe life begins at conception but it doesn’t end at birth..”

Huckabee is getting some unusual coverage from many different media outlets. His humor and religion are mixing together in a not-so-unusual way, at least outside of politics in the last couple of decades, and the media’s picking up on it. Is Huckabee, in his efforts to be the evangelical right’s new political leader, changing the image of the group? Or is he some kind of exception to the rule in the eyes of the media?

Digg the story here

Fact checking Bush’s speech on Iraq

From NPR:

This week, President Bush and members of Congress have been focused on the war in Iraq and how well it is — or is not — succeeding. Both sides have made a lot of sometimes competing claims about the situation there. On Thursday night, it was President Bush’s turn, as he addressed the nation from the Oval Office. NPR has this analysis of some of the president’s assertions.

Read the analysis and listen to the story.
Think they were one sided? Think the missed something vital? Let me know.

Latest bin Laden video a fake?

I haven’t seen this covered anywhere else, but just noticed an article on Booman Tribune (thanks to Digg) suggests the latest bin Laden video is a fake after the video freezes from 1:58 to 12:30, while the audio continues.

Osama Bin Laden’s widely publicized video address to the American people has a peculiarity that casts serious doubt on its authenticity: the video freezes at about 1 minute and 36 58 seconds, and motion only resumes again at 12:30. The video then freezes again at 14:02 remains frozen until the end. All references to current events, such as the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, and Sarkozy and Brown being the leaders of France and the UK, respectively, occur when the video is frozen! The words spoken when the video is in motion contain no references to contemporary events and could have been (and likely were) made before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Wonder why ABC News, the CIA and others either refused to report his, ignored it or if someone else produced a different video with the video frozen.
You can download the entire video here