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“Cancion Mexicana,” 89.3 KUVO-FM Denver’s premier jazz station, which regularly airs Latin rhythms on Sundays, is broadcasting live from Civic Center today, as part of Denver’s Celebrate Culture Cinco de Mayo festivities. Tune in at 10 a.m. to hear the spiciest radio show in the city, Florence Hernandez-Ramos’ “Canción Mexicana,” which regularly airs 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays. (KUVO will broadcast from the festival until 6 p.m. today) Since going on the air in 1985, “Canción” has become Denver’s top-rated show in its time slot, serving weekend eye-openers in the form of sizzling rancheras, conjuntos and cumbia tunes.
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“My Bad” Historically speaking, the apology is the second-oldest concept in mankind. The oldest is the mistake, of course. (Just ask Adam and Eve.) In terms of creativity, however, the apology is No. 1. Take this one offered in 1986 by a Nebraska city councilman: “I do not recall making the racial slur comment. If I did make this statement, it was a slip of the tongue and I am very sorry of it.” Right. This chronicle of 25 years of bad behavior and creative contrition compiled by Paul Slansky and Arleen Sorkin is worth the sticker price just for the last entry: Bill Clinton’s epic “my bad” at a White House prayer breakfast for the Monica Lewinsky affair.
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soundscape-fm.net Art takes many forms. This site is full of the aural, non-musical kind. Listen to recordings of trains going by on a busy street corner in Edinburgh, Scotland, an insane gathering of crows in Cuba, and Inuit kids going fishing in the Arctic in this fascinating collage of sounds. These field recordings are put together by a loose-knit group of amateur sound hunters and artists called phonographers. In one recording, titled “Zen Jiggers,” a phonographer records what sounds like the tiny bells of a Zen monastery when she puts her microphone under the ice on an ice-fishing lake, where fishers are jigging their hooks.
