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Listen to Friday's show · Sept. 5, 2008

Alan Ball Re-Emerges With Vampires, 'Towelhead'

It's a big week for the creator of the death-obsessed series Six Feet Under. After several years out of the spotlight, his two major projects are emerging within a few days of each other. He discusses why both are focused on sex.

Foreclosure May Become Health Problem

Behind the foreclosure numbers are a lot of families under severe stress.

Lessons From The Convention

Analyst Juan Williams assesses the state of the presidential campaign.

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Economy Why Politicians Like To Talk About Scranton
The gritty Pennsylvania city has emerged as a symbolic battleground this election season. We talk with the Obama campaign and a neighborhood organization about how a slumping economy is affecting Scranton.
Business What Detroit Wants From Candidates
As the auto industry struggles, people in Detroit are growing increasingly worried. We find out why some think that Michigan may be the true Ohio this election season.

Underworld; 'Banstyle/Sappys Curry'
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Artist:
Underworld
Composer:
Emerson/Smith/Hyde
CD Title:
Second Toughest in the Infants
Label:
Wax Trax!
Catalog Number:
7240
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Noiseshaper; 'Rise'
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Artist:
Noiseshaper
Composer:
Hirn/Fleischmann
CD Title:
Real to Reel
Label:
Miracle Sounds
Catalog Number:
0001
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Nation Hurricane Hanna Approaches
Hurricane Hanna is on its way to North Carolina and other hurricanes are close behind. Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, discusses the coming storms.
News What Hanna Did To Haiti
Tropical Storm Hanna has killed over a hundred people in Haiti, and thousands more are still displaced. Madeleine Brand talks to Louis Vigneault of UNICEF in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

D.j. Rels; 'Moonride'
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Artist:
D.j. Rels
Composer:
D.j. Rels
CD Title:
Theme for a Broken Soul
Label:
Stones Throw
Catalog Number:
Sth2087-p
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- Released: 2004
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Shirley Horn; 'Come Dance With Me [Sugardaddy Remix Tom Findlay and Tim Hutton]'
Listen now: 'Come Dance With Me [Sugardaddy Remix Tom Findlay and Tim Hutton]'
Artist:
Shirley Horn
Composer:
Cahn/Van Heusen
CD Title:
Verve Remixed, Vol. 3
Label:
Verve
Catalog Number:
000416602
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Smadj; 'C'est Comme Si C'etait Fait'
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Artist:
Smadj
Composer:
Smadj, Rokia Traore
CD Title:
Take it and Drive
Label:
Rasa
Catalog Number:
Rs-3162-2

Economy 'Marketplace' Report: Unemployment Soars
August was a bad month. Employers slashed 84,000 jobs and the unemployment rate hit a five-year high. We explore why this is particularly bad for female workers.

The Six Parts Seven; 'Conversation Heart'
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Artist:
The Six Parts Seven
Composer:
Six Parts Seven
CD Title:
Casually Smashed to Pieces
Label:
Suicide Squeeze
Catalog Number:
052
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Vernon Reid; 'Time'
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Artist:
Vernon Reid
Composer:
Reid
CD Title:
Known Unknown
Label:
Favored Nations
Catalog Number:
2320
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Movies Summary Judgment: A Record Summer For Movies
Despite economic woes, domestic ticket sales topped a record $4 billion this summer. Slate.com's Mark Jordan Legan caught up with a few movie-goers to see what they enjoyed about their cinematic experience. Food prices weren't part of it.
Music Reviews The Gits' Mia Zapata Resurrected In Film
Kerri O'Kane's new film The Gits succeeds as a documentary—she makes the viewer fall in love with her subject—and then some. Working with sparse footage from the 1980s and '90s, O'Kane still manages to make us fall head over heels for the rag-tag bunch of punk rock misfits better known as the Gits.

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra; 'Elephant'
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Artist:
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Composer:
Axelrod/O'Malley/Ma
CD Title:
Who Is This America?
Label:
Ropeadope
Catalog Number:
51533
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Tuatara; '25th & 6th'
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Artist:
Tuatara
Composer:
Martin/Harwood/Buck
CD Title:
The Loading Program
Label:
Fast Horse
Catalog Number:
7
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Metropilitan Jazz Affair; 'Navaronne'
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Artist:
Metropilitan Jazz Affair
Composer:
Hovart/Ronget/Devig
CD Title:
Lounge Story, Vol. 2
Label:
Dreyfus
Catalog Number:
36264
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