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...sure-handed tenderness of his music complements Park’s message. “There’s a thread of redemption running through these songs,” he says, offering “Blackbird Through the Dark” as a track from the new album in which that thread shows through. He attributes the album’s redemptive focus to current events, expressing his feeling that “this is really the moment where we can make things better...

Author: By Adam T. Horn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Patrick Park Aims to Please | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...eventually resettled. It was not until 1997 that Washington officially acknowledged the valor of the Hmong soldiers. A small stone with a copper plaque was placed in their honor between the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame in Arlington National Cemetery. (Read "A Blackbird's Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hmong and the CIA | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...Antietam’s heavier, more distorted songs featured complex tempo changes and polyrhythms. The audience had no difficulty moshing during the sludge hardcore of Connecticut’s Iron Hand before sitting down to take in the melodic finger-picked folk of New Hampshire’s Redwing Blackbird...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hardcore Harvard | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...digitized body parts is still kind of far out. But then, so are most things about Cross Match. The company was founded in 1996 by Scott, a medical ultrasound specialist, and two fellow engineers turned garage inventors, Jim Davis, who worked on the engine of the SR-71 Blackbird at Lockheed, and Ellis Betensky, who improved Vivitar zoom lenses and pioneered computer-aided design for cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...this year, the red-winged blackbird hysteria seems louder than ever. Joggers along Lake Michigan have gotten plucked. Workers on the edge of the city's downtown business district have lunched on street corners instead of park benches to avoid becoming part of a reenactment of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic The Birds. Experts say it appears urban red wings are more aggressive than their rural counterparts, partly because the city birds are particularly sensitive to (or fed up with) excessive human encroachment on their turf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Under Attack — by Blackbirds | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

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