Indy rock legend Lou Barlow, of seminal band Sebadoh, talks about how he got started in music and tries to figure out what “indy” really means… For the NoisePop Music Festival.

“The Mardi Gras Indians go back to the beginning… to slavery…” says Golden Eagles Big Chief, Monk Boudreaux. In this video we visit with Monk and with David Montana, Second Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas as they put the finishing touches on the elaborate 100+ pound costumes they will wear all day as they march, dance and sing on Mardi Gras, continuing a tradition that has survived for over on hundred years.

Dubbed “the Robin Hood girl” by a cabbie during trials for the Olympics in New York City, USA archer Kathy Loesch shows us how to draw and shoot without breaking a sweat. Oxygen Sports.

Renowned architect and author Sarah Susanka, of The Not So Big House book series, talks about the nature of Home.

Self-taught jeweler/folk artist, Courtney Gillen describes her process and lets us in on why she began making jewelry.

New Orleans native and musical prodigy, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews takes us on a tour of Treme (pronounced “treh-MAY”), the oldest Black neighborhood in America, where we meet some colorful characters and wonder about the future of the music scene in The Big Easy after Hurricane Katrina.

Alison Saracena and her husband, Bryan, run one of the best humanitarian aide projects in India: a computer school of disadvantaged young people. They teach html, IT skills, and web design so that those of a lower caste or class can take steps to bring themselves out of poverty by getting a good job in a country who tech sector is growing by leaps and bounds.

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