Flouting, reinventing, and exploring rituals and traditions. Sound artist Ellen Band weaves together prayers offered in fifteen different places of worship. In a short story by John Haskell, a man’s daily toast-eating acquires its own kind of significance. And in a midtown Manhattan loft, cacophony moves toward harmony as Tuvan and American cultures meet in a musical experiment. Also this week, news from the front - of the Martha Stewart trial, from a mother-daughter team of courtroom sketch artists.
If You’re Thinking of Speeding in Finland...
Court Savvy
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| Martha and her attorney Robert Morvillo |
Eleventh Commandment
Portals of Prayer
Tuvan Blues
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| Hazmat Modine and Huun Huur Tu making music (Anya Rozhdedestvenskaya) |
Toast
In this short story, written and read here by Next Big Thing contributor John Haskell, a morning ritual carries a man in and out of love. Produced by Curtis Fox.
To Make an End Is To Make a Beginning
Recently we lost a few very special voices. Here we remember them. Produced by Emily Botein.
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