http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog Tomorrow's NPR journalists today! Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:19:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Felipe Coronel, better known as Immortal Technique, is the closest thing we have to a one-man revolution in music today. Long before the slew of Obama-centric rap that has emerged in the past few months, Technique has been educating and urging listeners to become active participants in their politics and ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=881 Washington, D.C. celebrated its 16th Annual Caribbean Carnival this past June, during a two-day festival held on the 28th and 29th of the month. Caribbean bands and dancers decked out in colorful costumes laden with feathers, topped with exotic headdresses, swarmed the Georgia Avenue, NW, corridor during the first-day parade. The ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=931 Who knew upon starting my internship this summer that wigs would become such a key element of my life? For the last 2 months while researching my Intern Edition piece on wigs and why people wear them on a daily basis, wigs have consumed and intrigued me. I interviewed avid ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=871 Last month, Carina Giamerese wrote a note about Playing the Building, an installation by David Byrne in New York City’s Battery Maritime Building. Recently I was lucky enough to visit Byrne's installation, with Carina and some other friends and fellow interns, to play the building myself. There were a fair number ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=851   Shauna and I left Maryland around 1 p.m.  It was July 13 and a hell-hot day.  I’ve never owned one of those thick, spiral-bound Thomas Guide-thingies and I don’t have a portable GPS. So I Googled the route to Winton, North Carolina.   I find it interesting that all those computer generated ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=861 Sohodolls | Ribbed Music for the Numb Generation | Released October 18 2007 in US Somehow the British electro trio escaped my attention since their most recent album earned them radioplay, but fortunately one of my favorite trash-rock duos remixed the Sohodolls this summer, bringing them much-deserved limelight this side of the ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=831 As the official countdown begins until I see Radiohead in Camden, NJ next week (five days, by the way), I am reminded of the pre-In Rainbows tour two summers ago when I purchased tickets to both nights of their Tower Theatre run for 450% above face value. Both nights sold ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=841 Kid Sister’s radio-friendly Pro Nails featuring Kanye West was fun and infectious and all, but this Control remix made it physically impossible for me to sit in my chair. I swear, one of these days a Kid Sister induced dance party while driving is going to make me crash into ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=821 When you experience the excessive price points at boutiques like Cusp on M Street, Georgetown shopping can seem like it’s limited to getting fingerprints on the storefront glass. With a little help from the District of Columbia’s Sales Tax Holiday, though, your window shopping dreams could finally come true. Washington, D.C., is ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=811 As the sun beat down on the National Mall on a Friday afternoon in June, a small crowd gathered under the Bhutanese “foodways” tent, where Dr. Karma Phuntsho was busy preparing for his afternoon cooking demonstration.   As people took their seats, Phuntsho posed a quick question to his audience: “Where is ... http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/internedition/sum08/blog/?p=801