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Nonprofits That Rock Hard
Maybe rocking out and meeting the band don’t usually correspond with your day job or volunteer activities. But check out the work of these nonprofit organizations that are shamelessly devoted to rock...
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Help Tamara build bridges through music
An ongoing experiment: can our community’s collective brainpower help an idea become reality? Meet Tamara Tamara Turner follows the beat of her own drum – literally and figuratively. Her passion with...
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Ask Ero: Answers for confused and baffled Idealists
In this series of blog posts, I’ll try to answer all your questions (regardless of how ridiculously unqualified I am to answer them.) Consider me sort of a tech-literate, bearded, Ann Landers, or a...
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Balkan brass band plays a new venue: Sing Sing prison
This week’s spotlight: all things prison. — Slavic Soul Party! is a nine-piece New York City brass band dedicated to the Balkan brass tradition and its incorporation with American music. Formed over...
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Lou Reed: Lessons on doing from one of rock’s lifelong mavericks
“I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.” —Lou Reed Lou Reed(photo courtesy Michael Ochs Archives, via dailymail.co.uk) Last week, punks everywhere mourned the loss of...
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The Olympics are about collaboration as much as competition
At Idealist, the sporting world is not our usual beat. The Olympic Games, however, hit us where we live as an inspiring, international gathering of outstanding individuals and teams (not unlike our own...
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