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Chief Culture Writer for @CSMonitor. Author of The Art of Rush. I've lived in South Africa, UK, USA - so not even Meryl Streep can mimic my trilingual accent.
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Rock singer and naturalist: How Jonathan Meiburg straddles two careers

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By Stephen Humphries Verified
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Jonathan Meiburg was at a fork in the road of his life. At a truck stop somewhere in Oklahoma, he found a payphone and lifted the receiver. He made a call he’d been dreading. That was in the early 2000s. Mr. Meiburg was on tour as a musician in the fast-rising indie rock group Okkervil River. A few years before that, he had been on track to become a scientist. After finishing his undergrad degree, he won a fellowship to study community life in some of the remotest parts of the world.
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Jesca Hoop mixes protest and perspective in latest album, ‘Long Wave Home’

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By Stephen Humphries Verified
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Before Jesca Hoop became a nomadic musician, she was a teenage vagabond. During one summer in the 1990s, the singer-songwriter lived alone in an apple orchard in Sonoma, California. She’d come of age and left her unhappy childhood home. Ms. Hoop found an abandoned workers’ squat, which she likens to a chicken shack, and fitted it with a bedroll. She cooked outdoors over an open fire. One could euphemistically call it a rustic lifestyle.
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A modern epic where Greece is the word

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By Stephen Humphries Verified
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Christopher Nolan’s movie adaptation of “The Odyssey” features a cast of 5,000 extras. It was filmed in Morocco, Iceland, Italy, Scotland, and, of course, Greece. Every aspect of the production – from ships to costumes – is historically authentic. Well, apart from Odysseus’ American accent. We’ll let it slide, Matt Damon. Perhaps surprisingly for one of humankind’s greatest stories, this is Hollywood’s first large-scale production of it.
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