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 How did your life collide with the headlines in 2007? What's your holiday performance story? 
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Opening Theme: Start From Scratch - Artist: Galactic
CD: Crazyhorse Mongoose (Capricorn)   The Language of LifeThe Terry Schiavo case has played out over the last few weeks in the courts. We look at the language of the law as well as a phrase that has become popular, "the sanctity of life." People on both sides of the issue say that it's something they want to preserve. Host Barbara Bogaev talked with a theology professor to find out what the phrase means. Online resource:
Music Bridge: Toy Boat - Artist: Jeff Parker
CD: The Relatives (Thrill Jockey) Chicago's Garden of EdenChicago is a place where snow is more likely than sunshine this time of year. That's not true inside the Garfield Park Conservatory, producer Jonathan Menjivar's tropical oasis in the Windy City. Online resource:
Music Bridge: Songs without Words, Op. 62, No. 6: Spring Song - Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
CD: The Best of Mendelssohn (RCA)
Weekend Weather
Weekend America's John Moe takes a look at weather patterns and Saturday happenings all across the country. Online resources:
Running, Mud and MargaritasWhen runner and contributor Ian Chillag reached for water on his run this morning, he got margaritas and marshmallows. He calls Weekend America from the Mt. Penn Mud Festival for a live update. Online resources:
Music Bridge: Chase Me - Artist: Hexstatic
CD: Master-View (Ninja Tune) 
Music Picks with Tom Pryor - Part 1
If music is the universal language, then Marta Topferova speaks it perfectly. But the Czech-born singer had to learn Spanish to sing the music she loved as a child: Argentinean tangos, Venezuelan vals, the nueva cancions of the Caribbean. Critics like Tom Pryor of Global Rhythm Magazine are taking note. Tom's set list:
 Grano de Arena | Performed by Marta Topferova from the album, La Marea (Harmonia-Mundi/World Village)Train To Heaven | Performed by Motion Trio and Odeon from the album, Pictures from the Street (Asphalt Tango)Woman In Hell | Performed by Warsaw Village Band from the album, Uprooting (Harmonia Mundi/ World Village)
Chain of InfluenceWeekend America is linking Americans through the people who influence them. We started with Poet Laureate Ted Kooser and now we've come to Robert Coles, a world-renowned writer and child psychiatrist. Links in the chain:
Music Bridge: Walk Through Walls - Artist: I'm Not a Gun
CD: Our Lives on Wednesdays (City Centre Offices) Easter in D.C.This weekend, millions of kids will be hunting for Easter eggs. But the park in producer Katie Davis' neighborhood isn't exactly where you'd want your kids hunting. She and her neighbors have been working hard to get it up to snuff in time for the hunt.
Music Picks with Tom Pryor - Part 2
The Motion Trio plays their accordions so well that their music can lure people out of a concert hall onto a street corner. Tom Pryor of Global Rhythm Magazine brought their latest CD so host Barbara Bogaev could hear what makes them such a draw. Tom's set list:
Grano de Arena | Performed by Marta Topferova from the album, La Marea (Harmonia-Mundi/World Village)Train To Heaven | Performed by Motion Trio and Odeon from the album, Pictures from the Street (Asphalt Tango)Woman In Hell | Performed by Warsaw Village Band from the album, Uprooting (Harmonia Mundi/ World Village)>
Opening Theme: Start From Scratch - Artist: Galactic
CD: Crazyhorse Mongoose (Capricorn)  Tragedy in Red LakeThis week ten people died in a Minnesota school shooting. Weekend America hears directly from the Red Lake community. Online resources:
School Shootings: A Victim RemembersOne of the first school shootings happened at Grand Rapids High School in 1966. Kevin Roth was fourteen when classmate shot him and killed a school administrator. Kevin talked with guest host Matthew Algeo about why he wants to meet and apologize to the man who shot him so long ago. Music Bridge: Let There Be Morning - Artist: The Perishers
CD: Let There Be Morning (Nettwerk)
Music Picks with Tom Pryor - Part 3
The Warsaw Village Band is a group of punk rock kids. They spent years in the Polish countryside learning how to sing like the shepherds. Global Rhythm Magazine's Tom Pryor likes the results and shares their music with host Barbara Bogaev. Tom's set list:
Grano de Arena | Performed by Marta Topferova from the album, La Marea (Harmonia-Mundi/World Village)Train To Heaven | Performed by Motion Trio and Odeon from the album, Pictures from the Street (Asphalt Tango)Woman In Hell | Performed by Warsaw Village Band from the album, Uprooting (Harmonia Mundi/ World Village)
Same Time Next YearFor six years now, reporter Ethan Lindsay has spent the first weekend of college basketball's March Madness hunched around a Las Vegas betting table trying to make it big. Over the years he became friends with another fan there. They reconnect once a year to share their love for college basketball and the madness that happens every March. Online resources:
Over Achiever, Smelly FeetTen-year-old Noah Nielsen's shoes are so smelly that his teachers won't allow them into the classroom. For Noah, the shoes represent three years of hard work. This week, he beat out six other finalists for the honor of the nation's smelliest sneakers. Guest host Matthew Algeo talked with Noah and his father. Online resources:
Music Bridge: Keep Your Fare Down - Artist: Global Goon
CD: Family Glue (Audio Dregs) Supreme Court Short ListThis week, Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist returned to the bench after an illness. Fortunately, he's looking well, though the illness reminded us that the justices won't be around forever. So how do you find the next justice? Weekend America asked a headhunter and a former professor to put together a short list. Online resources:
Through My God's EyesWhat would Bob Dylan sound like if you were listening with God's ears? Producer Heather McElhatton asked a priest to listen for the divine in music that not everyone might consider sacred. Online resources:
Music Bridge: Sinner Man - Artist: Nina Simone
CD: The Best of Nina Simone (Polygram) 
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From the July 5 broadcast
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Awful Car Night
Auburn, N.Y.
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National Brewery Museum Opening Ceremony
Potosi, Wis.
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Sand Sculpture Contest
Bruce, S.D.
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Oregon Coast Geezer Games
Newport, Ore.
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Annual Coolest Fourth of July Celebration
Fort Davis, Texas
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Maui Invitational Band Festival and Blues Fest
Wailuku, Hawaii
 
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