Oakridge – A Work in Progress
You can stream or download the entire State of the Re:Union Oakridge radio episode, or listen to it broken up [...]
OAKRIDGE - A work in Progress
From the moment I heard the music and poetry of Blair, I was in love with it and believed in it. He weaves spoken word poetry, with folk rock, trip-hop and punk. On his MySpace page, he writes, “My dad looked like Chuck Berry, played like Hank Williams. My mom cleaned white folk’s houses. She raised five children. On her own. I inherited all sorts of ghosts from both of them. Sometimes I can fly.” (more…)
A new documentary, The Recess Ends, about people sharing their belief in community, debuts tonight at 8pm EST, 5pm PST on justin.tv, an interactive internet medium.
HuffPo writes about it here…
“It’s our journey, but it is America’s story,” says Austin Chu, the older of two brothers who drove across the country last year to create a video documentary of the recession. Their project may remind us of some of the famous images that grew out of the Great Depression, photographs such as the “Migrant Mother” series by Dorothea Lange in the 1930s.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, is nicknamed the Scenic City for a good reason. With breathtaking vistas of the Appalachian mountains and the Tennessee River flowing through it, the city is rich with outdoor beauty. To add to its resume, Forbes ranked Chattanooga as the eighth most affordable city in America in 2009. But Chattanooga hasn’t always had [...]
