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Bounce Love

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Big Freedia and Katey Red in the Third Ward of New Orleans; photo courtesy of Lyle Ashton Harris for the New York Times

For those of you who enjoyed State of the Re:Union’s story on Bounce music in our New Orleans episode– and the gay and transgender rappers who are the genre’s growing stars– check out the new feature about it from the New York Times! And if you haven’t heard SOTRU’s take, be sure to give a listen (it’s in Segment C!)… You’ll be poppin’ in no time…

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All Hands on Deck to Get the News and Deliver It

Monday, June 28th, 2010

One of the first things that attracted me to SOTRU was the idea of telling the stories behind the news headlines– the issues that may inform our lives in a big way, but don’t make it to the top of a newscast or front page of the paper. But, that said, knowing what’s going down where we live is a vital part of having a healthy community… and these are not easy times for the news industry. (more…)

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This Disaster Moves in Slow Motion: Thinking of New Orleans & the Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

It was only weeks after the SOTRU team was in New Orleans that the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico began sending millions of gallons of oil on a slow creep towards the Louisiana shore. We spent much of our time in the Crescent City talking to people about the slow, painstaking work of recovery from the winds and floods of Hurricane Katrina—and here they are, facing another natural disaster. (more…)

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A City Is Like an Elephant

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Whether by default or design, all of us on the SOTRU team are gradually becoming city experts. With each fresh location we go to, we accumulate new perspectives on how different places are approaching a frequently overlapping set of challenges, be it how to stem a rise in crime or reverse a loss of jobs, halt a wave of foreclosures or repair an urban infrastructure that’s seen better days.  What if to solve some of these problems we turned not to the usual handful of urban planners and economic development honchos… but to a group of physicists? (more…)

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