WHYY: Waylon Jennings once said, “If we could all sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.”
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NYT: The Texas attorney general has opened an antitrust investigation into how Google ranks search results, the first United States case to strike at the heart of the company’s main search business.
Arcade Fire front man Win Butler began forming the ideas behind The Suburbs in 2009, after receiving a letter from an old friend from his boyhood home outside of Houston, Texas. “He sent us a picture of him with his daughter on his shoulders at the mall around the corner from where we lived,” says Butler. “And the combination of seeing this familiar place and seeing my friend with his child brought back a lot of feeling from that time. I found myself trying to remember the town that we grew up in and trying to retrace as much as I could remember.”
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Ana Tijoux made her American debut in Austin at SXSW this past year. Tijoux was born in France to a French mother and Chilean father in political exile. Her music and sound reflects her upbringing in both countries. She told the Chron, “I’m very nostalgic about hip-hop,” she said. “I love the sound of that time. I was a little worried that people would think (1977) was not very moderno. But then I thought, ‘Aw, what the hell. I get to make what I want right now.’ I wanted to make a simple record like the simple records that I like.”
Her song 1977 is NPR’s Song of the Day today. Video is posted after the jump.
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KUT: Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong says he’ll keep riding, but there won’t be an eighth championship.
Austin’s Lance Armstrong says his goal of an eighth victory in the Tour de France is no longer possible. He fell from 14th to 39th place overall after stage eight of the race on Sunday. It was the first stage in the mountainous French Alps.
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Austin-American Stateman’s Juan Castillo reports that when Nehal Sanghavi thinks of Austin, he sees a community that embraces diverse cultures and values progressive ideas and public service a model place, he says, for a memorial honoring one of the world’s iconic figures of peace, Mohandas Gandhi.
If Sanghavi and supporters realize their dream, the tranquil, bespectacled face of Gandhi will gaze upon the Zilker Park lawn, perhaps as soon as next year. Members of Austin’s rapidly growing Indian community are leading the effort and submitted a proposal to the city’s Parks and Recreation Department board. Sanghavi said supporters have financial commitments from the community to cover the estimated $35,000 cost for a bronze statue. He said they prefer a Zilker Park location but are open to suggestions from the city.
The campaign corresponds with supporters’ plans for an annual day of service in Austin. This year’s event is set for Oct. 2, the birthday of the late leader .
Be the Change Day will be patterned after traditional observances in India, where the date is a national holiday and a day of service, said Sonia Kotecha, president of the Network of Indian Professionals of Austin.
Supporters hope to unveil the Austin memorial on Be the Change Day in 2011.
Known to his worldwide followers as “Mahatma,” or “the Great Soul,” Gandhi galvanized millions in India’s nonviolent struggle for freedom from British rule. With his philosophy of civil disobedience, Gandhi influenced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and South African leader Nelson Mandela, who used his principles to cultivate their own nonviolent struggles for equality, Sanghavi said.
“A Gandhi memorial would just serve as a reminder to the human community of the humanity that he brought to us, especially his principles of nonviolence,” said Sanghavi, 36, a local attorney and president of the India Community Center of Austin.
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