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Osama bin Laden

Midday Roundup: Bin Laden death photos to remain top secret

by Leigh Jones

Newsworthy | Classified material. A federal appeals court ruled today the government does not have to release 50 images taken of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after his death in 2011. Conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/midday_roundup_bin_laden_death_photos_to_remain_top_secret]

Becky Blumenthal, from Philadelphia, holds up her Phish album after being one of the first people in the store on the fifth annual Record Store Day at Main Street Music, in 2012.

Vinyl makes a comeback

by Thomas Hardesty

Music |  Younger listeners, enchanted by the warm and open sounds records offer, are setting aside their iPods and dusting off their parent’s old turntables

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/vinyl_makes_a_comeback]

George Jones
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Lonely legend

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  “The Possum” lived and died with the choices he made

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/lonely_legend]

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Notable CDs

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  New or recent releases

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/notable_cds_0]

CHILD'S PLAY: Mitchell (right) and Jefferson Hamer.
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Folk surprise

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  Anaïs Mitchell is hauntingly compelling in Child Ballads

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/folk_surprise]

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Notable CDs

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  New or recent releases

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/notable_cds]

Fest season
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Fest season

by Warren Cole Smith

Music |  Outdoor music events kick off with family-friendly MerleFest—and without Doc Watson 

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/fest_season]

Aldrich Lloyd Talonding, left, sings, accompanied by his cousin on the guitar.

Filipino Christian teen invited to sing on Ellen

by Whitney Williams

Music |  Fourteen-year-old Aldrich Lloyd Talonding, from the southern Philippines, said he was just having fun when he recorded a soulful rendition of Luther…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/filipino_christian_teen_invited_to_sing_on_ellen]

Danylo Fedoryka at last weekend's MerleFest

Music, beauty, God, and life

by Warren Cole Smith

Music |  Scythian’s Danylo Fedoryka is unabashedly pro-life

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/music_beauty_god_and_life]

Scythian revs up the crowd at Merlefest Saturday.

Reporter's Notebook: MerleFest’s greatest hits

by Warren Cole Smith

Music |  WILKESBORO, N.C.— Observations from this past weekend’s MerleFest, an annual music festival that draws close to 80,000 people to the foothills of the…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/merlefest_s_greatest_hits]

Doc Watson at MerleFest 2012

What would Doc do?

by Warren Cole Smith

Music |  At the first MerleFest without Doc Watson, organizers and musicians work to keep the Friends-of-Doc feel alive

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/what_would_doc_do]

Enter the Haggis perfoming at MerleFest Friday.

Figuring it out

by Warren Cole Smith

Music |  At MerleFest, it’s all about the music at this laid-back gathering of musicians and music lovers in the western foothills of North Carolina

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/figuring_it_out]

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