Dec 21st, 2007 · Record producer Joel Dorn worked with Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, Max Roach, Herbie Mann, the Allman Brothers and many more. He worked as an in-house producer at Atlantic Records before going out on his own, and in the late 1980s he repackaged back catalogs for the major record labels. He founded or co-founded several independent labels. He died Monday at age 65, of a heart attack. Fresh Air remembers him with this archival interview from April of 1991.
Keywords: independent · 1991 · Grammy · winning · interviews · 1980 · archive · catalog · Bette Midler · Allman Brothers · Joel Dorn · Atlantic Records
Nov 18th, 2007 · The final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change includes data and findings on climate change, work that earned the panel this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The group warns of heat waves and rising sea levels as early as 2020 unless urgent, global action is taken.
Keywords: global · Climate · Sea · winning · 2020 · Nobel · Nobel Peace Prize · Climate Change · Intergovernmental Panel
Aug 13th, 2007 · Boots in a store in Saint Jo, Texas, feature scenes of busting broncos and a cattle drive. They won an award in 2003, and then sat peacefully in the store. But a man walked in wearing tennis shoes, and walked out wearing the boots. The boot-maker is offering a $1,000 reward.
Keywords: shoe · Texas · winning · 2003 · Cattle · Tenn · thief · broncos · Saint Jo
Jul 16th, 2007 · There are wines of the Old World, the New World, and now the Developing World. Brazil is churning out award-winning wine at unlikely latitudes. Technological advances in both irrigation and refrigeration have made vast parts of the globe ideal for viticulture.
Keywords: winning · technologies · Brazilian · New World · irrigation · viticultural · refrigerators · latitude · Old World · Developing World
Jul 10th, 2007 · Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, was killed Tuesday in a car crash in Mississippi. Marlette's editorial cartoons and his comic strip, "Kudzu," are syndicated worldwide. He was 57 years old.
Keywords: cartoons · worldwide · editorial · winning · Cartoonists · comic · mississippi · Pulitzer · syndicated · Kudzu · Doug Marlette · Marlette
Mar 2nd, 2007 · Photographer Spencer Platt captured one of the most indelible images from last summer's conflict between Israel and Lebanon. But some people, many of them photo editors, attacked the behavior of the women in the car as "disaster tourism."
Keywords: Israel · critic · Lebanon · Disaster · conflict · winning · photo · tourism · indelible · Photographer Spencer Platt
Dec 2nd, 2006 · In 1979, a group of 11 Kurdish men were executed, accused of various crimes by the newly installed government of Ayatollah Khomeini. An image of this event was published and eventually won a Pulitzer Prize, but the photographer's identity was kept secret to protect him. An account Saturday in The Wall Street Journal reveals the photographer's name and story.
Keywords: crime · identity · Kurdish · protections · executives · Secret · Pulitzer Prize · winning · The Wall Street Journal · 1979 · Photographs · photo
Nov 16th, 2006 · Economist Milton Friedman died today in San Francisco at age 94. Friedman was a Nobel Prize winner and advised several presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
Keywords: president · winners · winning · San Francisco · economist · Nobel · Nobel Prize · milton · Ronald Reagan · Friedman · Gerald Ford · Richard Nixon
