4:51pm

Thu June 16, 2011
The Two-Way

University Of New Mexico Football Player Arrested For Sagging Pants

Deshon Marman, a 20-year-old University of New Mexico football player, ended up in jail because of the way he wore his pants.

Albuquerque's KRQE reports that Marman was boarding a U.S. Airways flight Wednesday at San Francisco International Airport when an airline employee asked him to pull up his pants, "because she said, they were 'below his butt and his boxer shorts were showing.'"

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4:47pm

Thu June 16, 2011
Deceptive Cadence

And Away We Go: Classical Summer Music Festivals 2011

Credit Stu Rosner / courtesy of Tanglewood

For classical music fans, summer is a feast. It's not just about the garden-fresh foods and sparkling beverages you take along to a lawn concert. Summer performances will carry you through winter's cold, from familiar favorites to exciting and invigorating premieres.

Whether you're planning a serious road trip or are making a quick escape, here are some highlights from more than a dozen festivals stretching from coast to coast this summer.

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4:38pm

Thu June 16, 2011
The Commonwealth

Controversial Pro-Bridges Movie Debuts

Attendees of this morning’s premiere of the short movie Building Bridges with Benny Breeze were asked to sign an oath saying they would listen to all sides of the debate over the Ohio River Bridges Project and be respectful of anyone with differing opinions. At the end of the movie, the star—Chris Saunders playing Benny Breeze—faced the camera and told the dozen people who signed the oath and stayed for the show that they were either for progress (meaning they were in favor of the bridges project) or against it. And if they were against it, they should “get the f*** out of this region.”

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4:38pm

Thu June 16, 2011
The Thistle and Shamrock

The Thistle And Shamrock: Soundtracks

From The Chieftains Oscar winning "Barry Lyndon" soundtrack in the 1970s, to the '90s epics "Last of the Mohicans," "Braveheart," "Rob Roy" and "Titanic," cinematic Celtic music has our attention this week.

This episode originally aired the week of June 2.

For more information on this program, visit www.thistleradio.com.

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4:36pm

Thu June 16, 2011
Business and the Economy

Red Cross Cuts Jobs In Blood Services

The Red Cross says a restructuring of its blood services division won’t have much of a local impact. The agency announced this week that 400 to 500 jobs will be cut nationwide under the plan. It says a drop in monetary donations and rising costs forced the restructuring. “Locally the impact of the restructuring has been minimal. Three positions in the River Valley Region were affected by restructuring,” said Katy Maloy,spokeswoman for the Red Cross River Valley Blood Services Region, which includes the Louisville area and parts of Indiana and Illinois.

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4:34pm

Thu June 16, 2011
Asia

Chinese Reopen Debate Over Chairman Mao's Legacy

Originally published on Wed June 22, 2011 4:34 pm

As China prepares to mark the 90th anniversary of its Communist Party on July 1, there are signs of a new ideological struggle over former leader Mao Zedong's legacy.

The conflict is being played out online amid a backdrop of heightened nostalgia for the revolutionary days, as a young leftist takes on an elderly economist who dared to publicly criticize the founder of the People's Republic of China.

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4:34pm

Thu June 16, 2011
Europe

With Greece Near Default, Wider Impact Feared

Credit Aris Messinis / AFP/Getty Images

With Greece in political and economic turmoil, financial market participants worry what effect it will have on the rest of the world. Euro-zone countries helped fund a previous rescue package for Greece. But French and German banks are still highly exposed to potential losses in Greece.

And that has investors in the U.S. and elsewhere worried about potential fallout.

If Greece is unable to pass austerity measures and cannot secure more international aid, it will start defaulting on $165 billion worth of debt this summer.

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4:28pm

Thu June 16, 2011
The Two-Way

Stuck In Your Job? So Are Millions Of Others

After exploring the notion that there are about 2 million "open" jobs in the U.S., All Things Considered today looks into Bloomberg Businessweek's conclusion that "up to 28 million Americans [are] stuck in jobs they would have left in ordinary times."

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4:24pm

Thu June 16, 2011
Live At The Village Vanguard

Mark Turner Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 11:44 am

Credit John Rogers for NPR/johnrogersnyc.com

By Patrick Jarenwattananon

The kids these days: They want to sound like Mark Turner. Well, at least the saxophone students do, and sure, certainly not all of them. But he's still probably the most influential tenor man of his generation. Why is that?

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4:15pm

Thu June 16, 2011
Statehouse News

Beshear Sells Surplus Property

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is selling surplus state property again. This time it's a vacant lot in Frankfort. Since taking office in 2007, Gov. Beshear says his administration has generated nearly $7.5 million through surplus real estate sales. Included in that figure is nearly $79,000 Beshear says the state got for a vacant, two-acre industrial lot in Frankfort.

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