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Music from Lucy Wainwright Roche and Loudon Wainwright

Lucy Wainwright Roche and her father Loudon Wainwright perform live together in our studio. Lucy will be celebrating her birthday bash at Joe’s Pub on Sun., Dec. 16, with a night of stories and songs.

Event: Lucy Wainwright Roche will be performing songs and telling stories with special guests Dave Hill, David Rakoff, and Martha Plimpton
Joe's Pub
Sunday, December 16 at 9:30 pm
425 Lafayette Street
Tickets available at The Public Theater box office, by phone at 212-967-7555, or here

More about Lucy Wainwright Roche’s birthday party at Joe’s Pub
Lucy Wainwright Roche’s MySpace page

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How Pablo Picasso Found His Style

Between 1917 and 1932, Pablo Picasso found his artistic style, drifted away from his wife, and began an affair with a much younger woman. The third volume of John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso biography series focuses on those years.

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 is available for purchase at amazon.com

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WFMU: The Coolest Freeform Radio Station Around

Named the best radio station in America by Rolling Stone magazine four years running, freeform listener-supported radio station WFMU plays everything from hand-cranked wax cylinders to punk to schlock-a-billy music. It’s broadcast here in New York at 91.1 FM. Station manager Ken Freedman and WFMU DJ Dave the Spazz explain how WFMU and freeform radio have learned to survive in today’s competitive media world.

Also, Dave the Spazz has edited a new book, The Best of LCD: The Art and Writing of WFMU, with a forward by Jim Jarmusch and artwork by superstars of the cultural underground like Harvey Pekar, Chris Ware, and Daniel Clowes.

Event: Join Dave the Spazz and other WFMU personalities for a reading and special live broadcast
Friday, December 16 at 6 pm
The Community Bookstore
143 7th Avenue (between Carroll and Garfield Streets) Park Slope, Brooklyn

The Best of LCD is available for purchase at amazon.com

WFMU’s website
Dave the Spazz’s WFMU show, “Music to Spazz By”
SLIDESHOW: The Best of LCD

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Underreported: Afghan Public Opinion Poll

Most of the news from Afghanistan focuses on the Taliban, or US and NATO troops, or the opium poppy crop. We hear very little about what the people Afghanistan think about what’s happening to their country. Pollster and political scientist Craig Charney of Charney Research recently conducted a poll of Afghan public opinion.

More about Charney Research, including the recent Afghanistan poll

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Underreported: What Life is Like for US Soldiers in Afghanistan

The war in Iraq gets more headlines, but US soldiers in Afghanistan are still battling it out with the Taliban and Al Qaeda the old-fashioned way – traveling on foot, building crude bunkers, and advancing slowly. Sebastian Junger and photographer Tim Hetherington joined an American platoon in the Korengal Valley, one of the most desperately fought-over pieces of terrain in the world.

Read Junger’s article for the January Vanity Fair, “Into the Valley of Death”
See Tim Hetheringon's Portraits of the Korengal

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