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Jungle Writers

David P. Kronmiller, Editor-In-Chief
Notes from the Jungle
Matthew Tullman, Current Events Editor
On current events.
Joyce Chen Blogging from New York.
Tharuna Devchand Blogging from South Africa.
J Lampinen
Our resident comic strip, Congo & Steve
Joanna Lord
Blogging on life, art and spirituality.
Jeremy Olsen
Director of Development and occasional commentator.
Dan Rickabus
On things musical.
Nicky Schildkraut
On poetry.

Plus guest writers and past staff, including Zach Fehst, Amy Reynolds, Aaron Vaccaro, Jae Day, Sarah Jawaid, Scott Martin, and Bronson Picket.
June 17, 2010, at 12:25 am — Arts and Culture | Music | Music In Our House | Videos | music video | video interview — / / / / / / /

MUSIC IN OUR HOUSE: RED LIGHT GO

David P. Kronmiller

The Second Episode of Season 2 of “Music in Our House” featuring the music of Red Light Go and Dana Castaldo.

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April 21, 2010, at 10:38 pm — Arts and Culture | Audio | Music | Poetry | Videos | Writing | music video | poetry reading — / / / / / / / /

Music: Alan Chan’s “Without A Trail To Lace”

Jeremy Olsen



On Saturday, April 10, Yuri Inoo gave this performance of “Without A Trail To Lace,” a composition for voice and vibraphone by Alan Chan on two poems by Nicky Schildkraut. In this unusual yet oddly effective performance, percussionist Yuri Inoo’s musical companion was… a video of soprano Courtney Huffman.

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April 10, 2010, at 10:00 pm — Arts and Culture | Music | Music In Our House | Videos | music video | video interview — / / / / / / /

Music In Our House welcomes Dan Rickabus

David P. Kronmiller


A performance in my home by our own music blogger, Dan Rickabus, singing and rockin’ the uke.

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February 26, 2010, at 2:04 pm — Arts and Culture | Audio | Music | Music In Our House | Videos | audio interview | music tracks | music video — / / / / / /

Music In HIS House: Dan Rickabus

Jeremy Olsen

Here’s a video from uke-rocker (?!) Dan Rickabus. His smooth-yet-gritty voice and his big, ukelele-glazed rock sensibilities are very easy on the ears.

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October 14, 2009, at 11:21 pm — Blogs | Interviews | Videos | video interview — / / / /

BREAKING BREAD OVER RELIGION

David P. Kronmiller

We’re pleased to announce the premiere of our new series/segment “Breaking Bread” where I sit down over a meal with a guest and discuss a topic about which we don’t fundamentally see eye to eye and hope that by the end of the meal we’ll find some common ground. And to kick things off we tackled that unifying of all topics – Religion.

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June 19, 2009, at 10:50 pm — Blogs | Videos — / /

Iranian Uprising: The Twitter Revolution

David P. Kronmiller

Huffington Post has been covering this with amazing focus. So many stories coming out of Iran because of new technology and a new kind of bravery I think. Here’s a video they have up from an Iranian woman reciting a poem while recording video of the nightly prayers – thousands of voices can be heard praying and calling out the name of God in the background. Amazing.

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May 26, 2009, at 6:58 pm — Arts and Culture | Audio | Interviews | Music | Music In Our House | Videos | audio interview | music tracks | music video | video interview — / /

Music In Our House welcomes Lightning Inside You

David P. Kronmiller

A performance in my home by the band Lightning Inside You. Also: Jeremy Olsen interviews the band, and we share a track from their EP.

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May 22, 2009, at 10:04 pm — Arts and Culture | Film | Videos | Web Series | and Boris —

AND BORIS: season two trailer

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Don’t miss season two of David P. Kronmiller’s exciting action adventure webseries, and Boris!

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April 4, 2009, at 5:46 pm — Arts and Culture | Film | Videos | Web Series | and Boris — / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

and BORIS: Season 3 Episode 3 “Corndogs and Boris”

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Season 3 of David P. Kronmiller’s action adventure webseries and Boris!

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March 18, 2009, at 12:00 pm — Arts and Culture | Interviews | Music | Music In Our House | Videos | audio interview | music tracks | music video — / / /

Music In Our House welcomes Nathan Schafer

David P. Kronmiller

Nathan Schafer performs “You Did” from his EP A Lapse in my home for our series “Music In Our House.” Jeremy Olsen conducts an interview, and we’ve also got a track straight from the CD for you.

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