Live Video From the Kennedy Center: Banda Magda - Millennium Stage (April 10, 2024)

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “Of all the vocal-driven ensembles in the world of contemporary music there is none as compelling or beckoning as Banda Magda.”
—World Music Report

Like a shoreline scintillating in the distance, New York’s Banda Magda blurs distinctions and suggests wonders.

Even if you don’t speak any of the six languages they sing in, you are still transported into beautiful imagery with tales of love and devotion, as strong as the bonds between the band’s diverse musicians.

Led by firecracker performer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Magda Giannikou, Banda Magda is a community. Their camaraderie shines with cross-pollinating melody and rhythm. The rotating madcap fellowship has traveled to more than 22 countries in five continents, playing renowned rooms and festivals such as L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, WOMAD, Apollo Hammersmith, the Kennedy Center, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Festival International de Montreal, and more. They combine whirlwind tours of music, invigorating transformative workshops, and magical interactive moments led by Magda’s uncanny ability to engage the audience.

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Patricia Kayden Apr 10, 2024 • 3:11:34pm

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 10, 2024 • 3:15:05pm

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan didn’t flinch when guilty Jan. 6 participant Antony Vo claimed he was convicted in a “kangaroo court.” She reportedly sentenced him to nine months.

“I’ve been called worse,” she reportedly said, according to a lengthy thread posted by CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane.

Chautkan is also presiding over former President Donald Trump’s federal election subversion criminal case which is on ice pending a Supreme Court determination on his absolute immunity claims.

In a testy exchange, Macfarlane recounts how 31-year-old Vo’s defense attempted to push forward a narrative that in no way did he violate any conditions of his release when he attended a Jan. 6 protest outside a D.C. lockup.

Chutkan shot back, “Are you serious?”

Instead, Vo’s defense tried to explain the event Vo attended as not so much a protest but a “prayer vigil.”

Macfarlane noticed when the defense tries to interject, Chutkan “buries her face in her hands [sic] in apparent frustration.”

Chutkan clarified that Vo wasn’t at a “prayer session at the D.C. jail, but singing in support for those in pretrial detention for violent crimes.”

Politico’s Kyle Cheney also noticed that Chutkan “seemed totally unmoved” to make ‘common cause’ with those who call the most violent J6 defendants “hostages” while officers testified to “nearly being killed that day.”

rawstory.com

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 3:15:49pm

That is one wacky guitar the dude on the left is playing! It’s inside out and backwards.

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 3:26:46pm

Here’s a TikTok about it.

tiktok.com

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 10, 2024 • 3:35:18pm

The Economist dares to go where the New York Times won’t

Robert F. Kennedy junior doesn’t care if he condemns America to Trump

economist.com

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 10, 2024 • 3:38:21pm

Explosive device is thrown onto porch of the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, spurring federal and local probe
Police and an FBI joint terrorism task force are investigating after an explosive device was thrown onto the porch of The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, early Monday, authorities said.

No one was in the building when the explosive was thrown just after 4 a.m., but staff arrived in the afternoon to find the device and discover the building had been damaged, Salem police said in a news release.

State police bomb technicians cleared the device and explosives detection dogs swept the area for any other devices, police said. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also assisted. Details about the damage weren’t immediately released.

The Satanic Temple said it was unable to comment due to the ongoing investigation by the Salem Police Department and the FBI, according to a statement posted Tuesday on Facebook.

cnn.com

Dangerman Apr 10, 2024 • 3:38:31pm

there is no move the R’s can make that will come out well

“The GOP-controlled Arizona House quickly gaveled out of session after lawmakers attempted to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban the state Supreme Court ruled could go into effect,” the Arizona Republic reports.

there will be no way to justify anything they do. or don’t do

and the ads write themselves. they wont even need an AI assist.

Dangerman Apr 10, 2024 • 3:39:11pm

re: #7 Dangerman

there is no move the R’s can make that will come out well

there will be no way to justify anything they do. or don’t do

and the ads write themselves. they wont even need an AI assist.

Want Roe?

Vote Joe.

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) April 10, 2024

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 10, 2024 • 3:39:22pm

This concert goes extremely well with the THC in my head.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 10, 2024 • 3:43:04pm

As I noted a few days ago, cocoa prices are up, I paid $8 for an 8oz container of Hershey’s cocoa powder.

In my protein drinks I use chocolate as the flavor, and for many years I’ve used the Ghirardelli chocolate drink mix. It used to be called “Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa”, but recently the name “Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate & Cocoa Sweet Ground Powder”.

It is not bitter dark, rather it’s just a sweet chocolate powder. A commenter on Amazon was surprised that sugar was the first ingredient, and yes it is a sweet drink mix.

But it’s also got a fair amount of chocolate and cocoa in it. And to my taste buds it is better than the usual mass market cocoa mixes one finds in the grocery store. Including the Starbucks brand of cocoa mix, which is priced at several times the Ghirardelli.

I bring this up here because today Amazon dropped the price of a 3lb container to just $13.80, a deal when one looks at the plain cocoa powder prices.

Given the way cocoa production is going with climate problems in Ghana and elsewhere, I don’t know if these low prices will last long.

Chocolate lovers: we got to hoard while we can!

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 3:46:43pm

re: #9 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s much more low-key than I expected!

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 10, 2024 • 3:47:03pm

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goddamnedfrank Apr 10, 2024 • 3:47:05pm

bsky.app

retired cynic Apr 10, 2024 • 3:58:05pm

re: #11 Charles

In my mind, I want to see Snarky Puppy surrounding her. (I like this, but it is so gentle by comparison to Puppies in full Snark.)

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 10, 2024 • 4:16:10pm

While we complain about Fox News being the most prominent disinformation outlet in the US, down under it is Murdoch’s Sky News Australia which is even worse.

Yes, even worse.

Australians are a strange bunch.

The campaign that Sky News Australia has against anything to do with climate change is quite something. Not a day goes by when they miss posting videos declaring anything to do with mitigation as some sort of extremism by crazies.

Murdoch is clearly doing the bidding of the coal lobby in Australia.

And Australia is doing even worse than the US at addressing carbon footprint. Per capita they emit more CO2 than the US.

We should not forget that Murdoch is Australian by origin.

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 4:16:15pm

I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 10, 2024 • 4:20:28pm

Speaking of which, an update:

GISSTEMP through March 2024

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 10, 2024 • 4:32:42pm

re: #13 goddamnedfrank

Six assholes on the corrupted court only answer to one man—Leonard Leo and he wants to turn the US into a radical right wing Catholic theocracy.

Sherlock Hound Apr 10, 2024 • 4:37:34pm

re: #6 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

cnn.com

I live there. This is sadly a regular occurrence. About several times a year, someone does this. No one believes the culprit is local.

jaunte Apr 10, 2024 • 4:42:03pm

Quinta Jurecic:
Does a Civil Rights Law Prohibit Lies About Voting?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit weighed the question during oral arguments in United States v. Mackey.

wrenchwench Apr 10, 2024 • 4:51:43pm

Mastodon

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 4:56:25pm

Very interesting conversation with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (NIN) Break Down Their Most Iconic Tracks | GQ

silverdolphin Apr 10, 2024 • 4:57:52pm

re: #3 Charles

That is one wacky guitar the dude on the left is playing! It’s inside out and backwards.

I’d have loved to see Dick Dale play Misirlou on that guitar. He already played upside-down and backwards.

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 5:10:18pm

Recent attempted spam accounts registered at LGF trace to:

Vietnam
Germany
Egypt
Austria
Morocco
Poland
Sweden

goddamnedfrank Apr 10, 2024 • 5:12:14pm

bsky.app

jaunte Apr 10, 2024 • 5:13:00pm

re: #24 Charles

Someone big mad trying to prove LGF a source of malware?

wrenchwench Apr 10, 2024 • 5:13:16pm

re: #24 Charles

Paul Simon - All Around The World (Or The Myth Of Fingerprints)

b.d. Apr 10, 2024 • 5:18:06pm

re: #24 Charles

Recent attempted spam accounts registered at LGF trace to:

Vietnam
Germany
Egypt
Austria
Morocco
Poland
Sweden

German and Polish spam have a lot of dill in it.

Belafon Apr 10, 2024 • 5:18:33pm

Mastodon

Whenever someone says we need to keep immigrants put so we can take care of our own, hold this up. The whites won’t take care of their children so the Native Americans are taking care of immigrants.

Orange Impostor Apr 10, 2024 • 5:20:34pm

re: #18 Joe Bacon ✅

Six assholes on the corrupted court only answer to one man—Leonard Leo and he wants to turn the US into a radical right wing Catholic theocracy.

Never ever forget that what we’re seeing today, is part of the endgame that folks like R.J. Rushdoony and Gary North strategized as part of their Dominionist takeover of US government almost a half century ago. Those seeds planted in the far-right Christian movement have borne fruit in the Christian Nationalist movement (which has at its heart the white nationalist Identity Christian sect), and their goal of enacting Project 2025 overtly states its goal of purging a large percentage of the American people from society, and stripping rights from anyone who oppose them. They told us exactly what they were after, and unfortunately not enough people believed them.

In their own words.

Semper Fi Apr 10, 2024 • 5:26:23pm

re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As I noted a few days ago, cocoa prices are up, I paid $8 for an 8oz container of Hershey’s cocoa powder.

In my protein drinks I use chocolate as the flavor, and for many years I’ve used the Ghirardelli chocolate drink mix. It used to be called “Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa”, but recently the name “Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate & Cocoa Sweet Ground Powder”.

It is not bitter dark, rather it’s just a sweet chocolate powder. A commenter on Amazon was surprised that sugar was the first ingredient, and yes it is a sweet drink mix.

But it’s also got a fair amount of chocolate and cocoa in it. And to my taste buds it is better than the usual mass market cocoa mixes one finds in the grocery store. Including the Starbucks brand of cocoa mix, which is priced at several times the Ghirardelli.

I bring this up here because today Amazon dropped the price of a 3lb container to just $13.80, a deal when one looks at the plain cocoa powder prices.

Given the way cocoa production is going with climate problems in Ghana and elsewhere, I don’t know if these low prices will last long.

Chocolate lovers: we got to hoard while we can!

I’m also into daily protein drinks and mention this because chocolate is the flavor I want nothing to do with but hasn’t always been this way.
My flavor of choice is Vanilla Ice Cream. The product is (Gold Standard 100% Whey) that I mix into a glass of Almond Milk. It provides 24grams of protein daily. They do make a chocolate version that I ignore…but I’m sure it’s quite good tasting.
Nutrition is important and I jazz-up my protein drink with a tbsp of Chia seeds and Vitamin C powder.
Wishing you good health and plentiful chocolate.

EPR-radar Apr 10, 2024 • 5:27:42pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

Dan Rather is incorrect on one point. Rejecting Trump is political, because the Republican party, which is the party of Trump, is the party of cheating, lying, racist, treasonous, fascist, vile people.

Belafon Apr 10, 2024 • 5:29:24pm

I’m not terribly fond of Kaitlan’s delivery style, but she can definitely keep doing this:

This is good revenge for Trump’s refusal to answer he question during the town hall. And also better coverage than most print outlets. https://t.co/EJPzIfYuAk

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 9, 2024

Belafon Apr 10, 2024 • 5:33:04pm

I would like to show this clip to every woman in America right before they walk in to vote. These are the people who want to control your body. https://t.co/X6ZMMMpr8o

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 9, 2024

EPR-radar Apr 10, 2024 • 5:33:52pm

re: #33 Belafon

It is completely obvious what Trump would do about abortion if (God forbid) he becomes president again. Completely random shit almost entirely determined by the most recent evil piece of Republican shit to have piddled in Trump’s ears.

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 5:34:22pm

If you’re looking for something to watch, the Alex Edelman comedy special on HBO, “Just For Us,” is amazing.

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 5:36:18pm

Alex Edelman: Just For Us | Official Trailer | HBO

darthstar Apr 10, 2024 • 5:49:35pm

Fuck the IRS. After the bank I work for went belly up last year, my ESPP stock portfolio went straight into the toilet. My capital loss for 4+ years of contributions was about 30K. The IRS lets me write off $3,000 of that and defers the other 26,900 to next year, where I get to write off another 3K? Is that how this works?

Meanwhile, my dad’s IRA which I used to put a down payment on a house counts as untaxed income? All of it at once?

Looks like I’m on the hook for six figures this year. Holy fuck. And I haven’t even started on my state taxes.

darthstar Apr 10, 2024 • 5:52:04pm

re: #9 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This concert goes extremely well with the THC in my head.

I could go for a fat doobie about now…got a bag of wedding cake in the wine fridge…but the missus will be home soon and I can’t be all B-A-K-D baked when she gets home…

I’m old fashioned. I love the taste and smell of flower. Vape just doesn’t feel the same and edibles hit too slow and last too long.

silverdolphin Apr 10, 2024 • 5:53:20pm

Arizona abortion ban: Arizona House Republicans halt Democrats’ effort to overturn 1864 law

Even with their own politicians performatively calling for reform, the GOP simply cannot stop itself from hurting women. It is who they are.

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 5:53:56pm

Rodney Munch - It’s Time To Take a Shit on the Company’s Dime (FULL SONG)

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 5:56:32pm

I seem to have ended up in YouTube’s incredibly crass song parodies section somehow.

wrenchwench Apr 10, 2024 • 5:56:40pm

re: #41 Charles

[Embedded content]

Policy (informal) where I work, is ‘always pee on the clock.’

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 5:57:02pm

Rubbin’ and a Tuggin’ My Nips

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 5:58:25pm

It gets worse, believe me.

Charles Apr 10, 2024 • 6:00:16pm

This Baptism Fucking Blows (Dunk the Kid Already)

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 10, 2024 • 6:03:02pm

I’d Really Like To Get in Your Pants, Because I Just Shit in Mine

darthstar Apr 10, 2024 • 6:04:53pm

re: #44 Charles

Rubbin’ and Tuggin’ My Nips is a song I want to learn on the geetar for drunken fireside sing alongs with friends.

wrenchwench Apr 10, 2024 • 6:08:57pm

Mastodon

Dolores Huerta is a hero of mine, and I like Russell Contreras, but I do not care for Axios’s ‘bullet-point’ article format. I subscribed to the Axios Latino emails, but when I go to their website, I can’t find it, or any of its articles.

Hecuba's daughter Apr 10, 2024 • 6:09:40pm

re: #38 darthstar

Fuck the IRS. After the bank I work for went belly up last year, my ESPP stock portfolio went straight into the toilet. My capital loss for 4+ years of contributions was about 30K. The IRS lets me write off $3,000 of that and defers the other 26,900 to next year, where I get to write off another 3K? Is that how this works?

Meanwhile, my dad’s IRA which I used to put a down payment on a house counts as untaxed income? All of it at once?

Looks like I’m on the hook for six figures this year. Holy fuck. And I haven’t even started on my state taxes.

I believe the rule is that you can write off the loss to the extent that it is less than your capital gains for the year; but if the loss exceeds gains, you can write off only up to $3,000 of the excess loss.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 10, 2024 • 6:11:07pm

re: #41 Charles

I swear on William Shatner’s hairpiece that 2 months and 20 days can’t hurry up and let me retire…

Dave In Austin Apr 10, 2024 • 6:14:02pm

re: #36 Charles

“A digital terrarium of assholes”

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Apr 11, 2024 • 5:45:35am

re: #38 darthstar

Looks like I’m on the hook for six figures this year. Holy fuck. And I haven’t even started on my state taxes.

When we got a good accountant it was like having our income doubled at lower cost. Hint, hint.

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