You call that recoil? I’ll show you recoil…
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In tonight’s Tips music, from the 1957 album ‘Round About Midnight, trumpeter Miles Davis plays a cool, swinging version of Bye Bye Blackbird.
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Well, it’s not exactly the worst possible outcome of hip surgery. (Click the closed-captioning button.)
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In tonight’s Tips music, dedicated to dog lovers everywhere, the late Hank Snow sings the touching story of Old Shep.
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If you’re planning to Chug-A-Lug this weekend, please do it safely.
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In tonight’s Tips music, from the documentary Festival Express, the lovely Sylvia Tyson (née Fricker) belts out a funky and delightfully slinky version of the old blues standard C.C. Rider.
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Tonight we take a trip back in time as we look at one of the products of a fascinating international initiative, developed under project director Bernard Fischer of the University of Virginia, called Rome Reborn:

Since 1997, the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory of the University of Virginia, the UCLA Experiential Technology Center, the Reverse Engineering (INDACO) Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, the Ausonius Institute of the CNRS and the University of Bordeaux-3, and the University of Caen have collaborated on a project to create a digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in late antiquity.

Even seasoned travellers who’ve been pinched on the Via Veneto have never seen The Eternal City quite like this: here’s Rome Reborn: A Tour of Ancient Rome in 320 CE.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we watch a dramatic slideshow of photos from Alberta photographer Sean McCormick’s upcoming book Neutral HIlls: Vision Quest.
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Tonight’s musical amusement en route to the Tips features former rodeo rider Rex Allen, aka The Arizona Cowboy, in a live televised performance of Son, Don’t Go Near The Indians.
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Tonight, via the miracle of Scopitone, actor/singer Guy Marchand alternates between a suave French crooning voice and what sounds like a war cry emanating from a minaret, in a très French performance of La Passionata. Je ne sais pas.
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That’ll be Cash On The Barrelhead, son. Not part, not half, but the entire sum.
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Tonight, in one of those rare live musical performances that fill the room with energy and practically make your hair stand on end, transformative modern duo T Coils face off in an electrifying cover version of Dueling Banjos.
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SDA guest blogger Robert recently recommended via email this Travel Alberta video, and darned if it isn’t gorgeous. (Small-screen version here.)
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In August of last year, Australian-born choreographer Lloyd Newson and the London-based dance troupe DV8 Physical Theatre debuted Can We Talk About This?, a work that examines the way in which such events as the death threats against Salman Rushdie and the murder of Theo Van Gogh have altered the climate of freedom of expression in the west. While some reviewers have praised the the production as courageous, Michael Billington of the left-wing Guardian dismisses the spectre of Islamist revenge with this little piece of spineless weasel-logic:

The idea that people are afraid to speak out about Islamist extremism is disproved by the very existence of this production.

Yeah, and by the existence of the books of Salman Rushdie and the films of Theo Van Gogh. Here’s a short video promoting DV8 Physical Theater’s production of Lloyd Newson’s Can We Talk About This?.
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The Open Road was a series of short travelogues filmed between 1924 and 1926 by British cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene using an early colour process called BioColour. Watch the remarkably high-quality footage in the recently-restored The Open Road London.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement, filmed live at the the Steppe Inn, a private bar located at the back of the British Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian trio Shanz-Elsen Tsul helps the clientele knock back their Gin and Tonics with a drum machine-assisted performance of the traditional Mongolian song I’m Momentarily Out Of Ideas For Tips Music.
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In tonight’s Tips music American songwriter Buddy Miller, along with Emmylou Harris on backing vocals, sings a beautiful song from the 2004 album Universal United House of Prayer called Wide River To Cross.
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From his 1996 album Country Love songs (personally autographed copies available here), here’s Robbie Fulks’s country stomper She Took A Lot of Pills (and Died).
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Oh no, little dinosaur, please don’t go.
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The late John Wayne, in his starring role as the eponymous hero of the 1952 Warner Bros. feature film Big Jim McLain, provides our vicarious pleasure of the night, as he punches a country club communist in the face.
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