Perhaps you heard about it but never understood exactly what it was all about. Esther Wong, the unlikely godmother of punk who showcased such groups as Oingo Boingo at her Madame Wong’s clubs in Chinatown and Santa Monica in the late 1970s and ‘80s, has died. They were led by a cattle rancher by the name of Ammon Bundy - the son of Cliven Bundy. In 2016, a group of armed militants occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in western Oregon.
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Should we allow ranchers to graze cattle, or should the western land be a place where wild animals can roam free and be protected, or is it land we want to reserve for recreation? As you can imagine, there is no consensus on the answers to these questions but there are a LOT of strong feelings, and over the years, those strong feelings have sometimes bubbled up to the surface and manifested in protests and even violence. Madame Wong’s was having trouble driving business with a regular Polynesian dance floor show. And there have always been questions about how this immense swath of land should be used. On a Tuesday night in October 1978, a struggling restaurant in Chinatown decided to try some new music. About 85 percent of Nevada, 61 percent of Alaska, 53 percent of Oregon, the list goes on. In the second, a death row inmate at San Quentin discovers Buddhist practices that help to calm his mind, and embrace compassion.įeaturing Cyrus Habib, Jarvis Masters, Leigh Marz, and Justin Zorn.Most of the American west is owned by the Federal Government. In the first, the Lieutenant Governor of Washington State abandons politics to become a Jesuit novice, and takes a temporary vow of silence. Her Madame Wong's restaurant on Sun Mun Way in Chinatown, which she opened in 1970 with her now-deceased first husband, George Wong, originally featured Polynesian bands. In a noisy, tumultuous world, how can we find inner peace? This episode features two stories about the transformative power of silence. At first slow to accept punk rock, new wave and other 1970s music, the colorful and sometimes controversial Wong came to be one its most ardent patrons in Los Angeles. I love how this episode turned out and I’m so proud of everyone involved, that I want to share it with you as a bonus episode. But the story Twenty Thousand Hertz produced tackles the main thesis of Golden more head on. It’s boring, but it works, and it’s so ingrained that it’s hard to imagine not using it. It’s often the one we try first - or the one we use as a last resort when all the other ordering methods fail. Leigh showed up on a mini-story episode 99pi a few months talking about the ever increasing loudness of sirens as a way of measuring just how loud our world has become. 99 Invisible 00:31:59 In much of the western world, alphabetical order is simply a default we take for granted.The Chinatown Punk Wars were racial: Esther Wong was often referred to as. We’ve collaborated a number of times, but we’re featuring them today because our sibling podcast produced an episode with my actual sibling Leigh Marz, co-author of the book Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise. Esther Wong Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (also known as.
In case of Twenty Thousand Hertz, hear the world differently. I think of it as almost a sibling of 99% Invisible: lovingly produced and reported deep dives into everyday things that make you see the world differently. The podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz is a show about the world's most interesting and recognizable sounds.
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