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Baron Dave Romm
By Baron Dave Romm
What follows is the Proclamation issued by the Office of the Mayor of Minneapolis with the Seal of the City of Minneapolis, Minn. and the signature of Mayor R. T. Ryback. The framed original stays here.
Proclamation
Whereas, This 18th day of September, Old Calendar 2004, Year of our Moon Landing 35, Shockwave Radio Theater has been on the air for Twenty Five Years; and
Whereas, Shockwave Radio Theater is a groundbreaking radio program originating on Fresh Air Radio KFAI, 90.3FM in Minneapolis, 106.7FM in St. Paul; and
Whereas, Shockwave Radio Theater serves the community with a unique blend of original science fiction humor, interviews, music, reviews and commentary; and
Whereas, Shockwave Radio Theater is the only tactile radio program in Earth's history; and
Whereas. Shockwave Radio Theater maintains a web site, www.romm.org, with archival audio, graphic and written material; and
Whereas, Shockwave Radio Theater is a resource that has enriched and promoted the city of Minneapolis;
Now, Therefore, I, R.T. Rybak, Mayor of the City of Minneapolis, do hereby proclaim this 18th day of September in the Year of our Moon Landing 35 to be
Shockwave Radio Theater Day
in the City of
Minneapolis
Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia with a radio show, a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here, you can order Shockwave Radio Theater CDs, and you can hear the last two Shockwave broadcasts in Real Audio here (scroll down to Shockwave). Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air, and I'm continuing to collect extra-weird stuff.
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Argues for Alternative Fuels
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson's new Mercedes has never had a drop of gas in it, but it drives as well as any car he's ever had. So, he wonders, why aren't foreclosed family farms in the United States being used to grow soy, corn and other vegetables for environmentally friendly fuels?
"We don't have to be out there fighting wars all over the world," he says. "We can give a young couple a way to make a living on a 200- or 300-acre farm."
Making family farms profitable was a major theme of Farm Aid's 17th concert, held Saturday at the White River Amphitheater. This was Farm Aid's first appearance west of the Rockies - a change suggested by Seattle resident Dave Matthews.
Besides board members Nelson, Matthews, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, Farm Aid 2004 featured Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and others.
Nelson said he's angry there's a need for a Farm Aid. "We're not treating our raw producers in this country very well," he said.
Willie Nelson
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks to supporters as singer Sheryl Crow looks on during the senator's annual Steak Fry fund-raiser, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004, in Indianola, Iowa.
Photo by Charlie Neibergall
Station Denies Firing
KIRO
A radio station Sunday denied a talk show host's claim that was fired because he criticized CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges to the authenticity of memos about resident Bush's National Guard service.
KIRO-AM Radio, a CBS affiliate (in Seattle), canceled "The Brian Maloney Show" because of scheduling conflicts, the station's general manager said Sunday.
"The primary reason Brian Maloney's show was canceled is because KIRO's broadcasts of the Seattle Seahawks football games significantly reduces our Sunday talk lineup and we felt the remaining time slots would be better filled by other hosts," Ken Berry said in a statement.
He said several hosts on the station "have criticized and continue to criticize Rather and CBS with no interference from management."
KIRO
Dedicating Show to Russia Victims
Van Cliburn
Acclaimed pianist Van Cliburn returns to Russia this week to help heal some very deep wounds.
Cliburn will be honored by President Vladimir Putin and play a concert dedicated to the memory of the more than 330 school siege victims in Beslan.
The 70-year-old Texan will be making his 10th trip to the country. In 1958, Cliburn, then 23, won the first Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition held in Moscow; he has since performed around the world.
Van Cliburn
Plans New York Show
Patti Smith
Punk-era New York music icons Patti Smith and Television plan to share a stage for the first time since 1977.
The artists will perform Oct. 2 at Gotham's Roseland Ballroom.
The date is significant for Smith, as it is the 135th anniversary of the birth of spiritual/political leader Mahatma Gandhi, to whom she pays tribute on her well-received latest album, "Trampin'," released in April via Columbia.
Patti Smith
A Philly Soft Pretzel store is barricaded with pretzel dough as the town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, braces itself for evacuations due to Delaware River flooding, September 19, 2004. Remnants of Hurricane Ivan caused heavy rains in the Poconos and northern New Jersey, causing the Delaware River to swell some 6 to 8 feet over flood level and forcing evacuations of towns throughout the surrounding areas of the Delaware River.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
Tells Musicians to Pay Dues
Elton John
A word of advice from Elton John to up-and-coming musicians: Pay your dues.
"Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers," said John, who was in Shanghai Saturday for his first shows in China in his four-decade career.
"We didn't just make a video, then go out on the road. We were on the road before we had got a record contract," said the singer and pianist, who started out in the early 1960s toiling on the British pub circuit with the soul act Bluesology.
Asked with whom he would most like to work, John named Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, his collaborator on 2001's "Songs From the West Coast."
"The greatest songwriter on the planet at the moment is Rufus Wainwright," John said.
Elton John
Oops, She Married, Again
Britney Spears
Pop singer Britney Spears married her fiance, dancer Kevin Federline, in a surprise ceremony, her record label said Sunday.
"She did marry him yesterday," Jive Records spokeswoman Sonia Muckle said. She declined to provide further details.
The wedding was held Saturday evening at a private home in the Studio City area with 20 to 30 people attending, "Entertainment Tonight" said on its Web site.
Britney Spears
People pass in front of Colosseum during the 'White Night', a nocturnal extravaganza of cultural events, in Rome September 19, 2004. Two million people massed in Rome's streets, monuments and museums overnight, celebrating the Italian capital's second annual 'White Night'.
Photo by Tony Gentile
Visit to Arkansas Remembered
Beatles
Forty years later, Carrie Mae Snapp is still aglow over her brush with The Beatles. Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' improbable, clandestine arrival in Walnut Ridge, population 4,925, and Monday marks 40 years since a throng - including a teenage Snapp - got wind of their visit and surrounded the British megastars as they left for a concert in New York.
It was the musical legends' only visit to Arkansas, a moment still worth remembering for many in Walnut Ridge.
"This was a life-changing event and it sort of validated us in our isolated, little town," Snapp said. "How many times did the Beatles come to Arkansas? In 1964, at the height of their fame, what were the chances of it? Sputnik could have fallen on us more easily."
For the rest, Beatles
The USS Chung-Hoon sits ready to be placed in active service while members of Halau Hula Olana Ai dance during its commissioning ceremony on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, September 18, 2004. The Chung-Hoon is the newest and most advanced guided-missile destroyer. It is named after Rear Admiral Gordon P. Chung-Hoon of Hawaii who was on the USS Arizona when it was attacked on December 7, 1942. Several years later Adm. Chung Hoon, then a commander of the USS Sigsbee won the Navy Cross and Silver Star for the destruction of 20 enemy planes near Japan and battle duty against a Japanese Kamikaze hit with simultaneous plane strikes in Okinawa. This is the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a Chinese-Hawaiian.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
Returns to Azerbaijan Birthplace
Mstislav Rostropovich
World-renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was making a rare return to his birthplace in Azerbaijan to conduct a gala concert and hand out much-needed vaccines to children.
The 77-year-old musician, who left the former Soviet republic as a small child, was holding the conductor's baton at a performance of Azerbaijan's State Philharmonic Orchestra Saturday evening.
Earlier in the day, Rostropovich visited Children's Hospital No. 6 in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, where he donated vaccines against cholera, measles and typhoid.
The vaccines are "a way of expressing my gratitude to the place of my birth," said Rostropovich, who was accompanied at the hospital by Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev.
Mstislav Rostropovich
In Memory
Eddie Adams
Eddie Adams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist whose half-century of work was defined by a single frame - an Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War - died early Sunday. He was 71.
Adams died at his Manhattan home from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, said his assistant, Jessica Stuart. Diagnosed last May with the incurable neurological disorder, he quickly lost his speech and had become increasingly invalided.
Despite that, he remained alert, working into his final days on projects that included a video profile which Adams called "my last assignment," and was featured on entertainer Jerry Lewis' annual 24-hour Labor Day Telethon to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association - an event that Adams himself regularly photographed for Parade magazine.
In a statement, Lewis acknowledged the irony of Adams being afflicted with one of the diseases for which the charity drive raises funds. "I'm touched by the courage and strength he's shown in facing ALS," he said.
Born Edward Adams on June 12, 1933, in New Kensington, Pa., he served as a Marine Corps combat photographer in the Korean War and became one of the nation's top photojournalists with newspapers, the AP from 1962-72 and again 1976-80; and with Time-Life, Parade and other publications.
Along with 13 wars, he covered international politics, fashion and show business. His portraits included U.S. presidents from Richard Nixon to President Bush and such world figures as Pope John Paul II, Deng Xiao Ping, Anwar Sadat, Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Gandhi and the Shah of Iran.
In addition to a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for the Saigon execution picture, Adams's more than 500 honors included a 1978 Robert Capa Award and three George Polk Memorial Awards for war coverage.
Eddie Adams
In Memory
Marvin Mitchelson
Divorce lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson, who worked on high-profile, big-money marital disputes involving scores of Hollywood stars, has died. He was 76.
Mitchelson died Saturday after battling cancer at the Rehabilitation Center of Beverly Hills, his longtime publicist Sy Presten said Sunday.
After beginning his law practice in 1957, Mitchelson worked on cases involving famous names such as Quincy Jones, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hugh Hefner, Robert De Niro, Bob Dylan, Sylvester Stallone, Mick Jagger, Mike Tyson and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Most of the cases involved divorces.
In his first celebrity divorce case, representing actor James Mason's wife, Pamela, in the 1960s, Mitchelson won a then-astonishing $1 million settlement.
While representing Marlon Brando's ex-wife, actress Anna Kashfi, in a custody case, Mitchelson settled by negotiating with Brando directly in the actor's home.
He also successfully defended actress Joan Collins in a case involving a prenuptial agreement with ex-husband Peter Holm.
In the 1980s, Mitchelson represented actor Lee Marvin's live-in girlfriend, Michelle Triola, who sued Marvin for palimony, which Mitchelson often quipped was "a commitment with no rings attached," Presten said.
In recent years, Mitchelson observed that the majority of prenuptial agreements end up in divorce.
But the divorce specialist had no need for his own counsel. He was married for 45 years and often joked that he wasn't setting a good example for his divorce practice.
Mitchelson is survived by his wife, a son and a sister.
Marvin Mitchelson
Chinese children play a tug-of-war with a crocodile at the Panyu Crocodile Park in Panyu, Guangdong province, September 19, 2004. Students, under the supervision of crocodile experts and veterinarians, played with crocodiles as they learned the general habits of the reptile on a Sunday field trip.
