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Banjo's new first string Alison Brown breaks the instrument's stereotypes
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Whatever your stereotype of a banjo player might be, Alison Brown
will dash it. Hillbilly twanger? She graduated from Harvard
University and was an investment banker before starting her career as
one of the country's most inventive banjo players. She has toured
with Alison Krauss and Michelle Schocked, and is the first woman to
ever win an instrumentalist of the year award from the International
Bluegrass Music Association.
Perhaps you think of banjo pluckers as stuck-in-the-mud folk
purists. Brown's sweet, fluid jazz fusions are as sophisticated as
they are beguiling; comfortably wearing the ...
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Unification Church gains new respect in Latin America Critics worry about new newspaper, appearance by George Bush
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...When missionaries from the Unification Church came to South America...Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the church's spiritual leader, were...Critics of the Unification Church particularly the Roman Catholic Church, which has long dominated...stoned and sacked Unification churches. ...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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UNIFICATION CHURCH MEMBERS SEEK MAINSTREAM.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...much of that time supervising Unification Church missionaries in Australia...Philippines. Still active in the church, they now are missionaries...legislation in Albany or visiting churches to encourage practicing Christians...national effort by Unification Church members to gain ...
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Unification Church reaps millions from sushi in America
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...devised. Moon founded the Unification Church six decades ago with the proclamation...separate nonprofit company called Unification Church International Inc., or UCI...s connections to Moon's Unification Church go deeper than the shared...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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An In-Depth Look at The Unification Church
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...think they know about the Unification Church, that religious group...with age. The Unification Church of America is now more than...generation born into a new church. The Unificationists have...is 42 and has been in the church for 20 years. He left the...stepping out of suburban ...
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Unification Church high school criticized Facility is opened at Conn. university
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church at the University of Bridgeport...and shows just how far the {Unification Church} has come in its efforts to...What I believe now is that the Unification Church has been subjected to terrible...
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American Jewish Congress charges that Unification Church responsible for civil rights violations.
PR Newswire
; ...employ a member of the Unification Church. The complainant...of the Unification Church. Several former employees...acknowledges the right of churches and other not-for...commercial endeavor. The Unification Church denies it is involved...
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Mischaracterizing the Unification Church
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church {front page, March 28, March...disguised effort to target the Unification Church is disappointing primarily...to twist the beliefs of the Unification Church to make it look weird. I would...
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RELIGION: UNIFICATION CHURCH WOOS RECRUITS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...Central America of the Korean Unification Church headed by Sun Myung Moon is...1984. According to CDHR, the Unification Church has recently begun courting...enjoyed little success, the Unification Church has concentrated recent...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Rev. Moon ad embraces some zany `family values'; Unification Church spreads the news, expensively, that it affirms America.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...cheap for Moon, head of the Unification Church, to take his special message...his committee looked at the Unification Church's alleged ties to the Korean...instrument of the devil" by a Unification Church official and was labeled a...
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Analysis: Unification Church in trouble with tax authorities in Brazil
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...00-0000 Analysis: Unification Church in trouble with tax...intense sun. When the Unification Church first started buying...Ostriches): I joined the Unification in Hong Kong and then...KASTE: So-so. The church married Gina to a Brazilian...
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