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For hip-hop's 50th anniversary, we look at how NPR Music's Tiny Desk concert series became a platform for many of hip-hop's greatest. Plus, what the San Diego hip-hop scene is like and how the genre grew into the cultural force it is today.
ConversationsUncategorizedTo Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen ArmstrongParabola EditorsSep 9, 202213 min readOne bright spring day, Parabola met with Karen Armstrong in her suite at the Parker Meridian hotel in Manhattan. The petite, friendly 62-year-old British ex-nun, arguably the most influential commentator on religion in the English-speaking world, was on tour to… Read MoreConversationsThe…
We're listening to new or notable music from San Diego musicians Nonexistent Night, Tasha Smith Godinez, Cali the Dreamer and Steven Schick, and touring Americana singer Margo Cilker.
huge wind gusts began hitting manhattan and this crane that had been inspected suddenly, you know, basically blew with the wind and went backwards and over and literally began dangling precariously over west 57th street here in midtown. so the fire department, the police department, emergency management officials responded to the scene, evacuated the surrounding buildings including a major hotel right there an 57th street. parker meridian. yeah. they re trying to figure out, what do we do with this? there s really not much they could do because the wind gusts, it s not safe to go up there and try to secure it at this time. they inspected it, said, look, we hope it holds. right now we ve at least cleared the area and hope it holds until the winds die down and we can secure it or replace it. there s the remarkable video of it. it actually collapsing. so it may be a little while that s 70 stories up. and the mayor actually said it may not have been that this was any negligence