Stephen Humphries
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- Jul 31, 2026
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Rock singer and naturalist: How Shearwaterâs Jonathan Meiburg straddles two careers (opens the original)
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Jonathan Meiburg was at a fork in the road of his life. At a truck stop somewhere in Oklahoma, he found a payphone and lifted the receiver. He made a call heâd been dreading. That was in the early 2000s. Mr. Meiburg was on tour as a musician in the fast-rising indie rock group Okkervil River. A few years before that, he had been on track to become a scientist. After finishing his undergrad degree, he won a fellowship to study community life in some of the remotest parts of the world. That adve
Jesca Hoop mixes protest, perspective in latest album, ‘Long Wave Home’ (opens the original)
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Distance affords singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop perspective on her country and life for her new album, “Long Wave Home.” Before Jesca Hoop became a nomadic musician, she was a teenage vagabond. During one summer in the 1990s, the singer-songwriter lived alone in an apple orchard in Sonoma, California. She’d come of age and left her unhappy childhood home. Ms. Hoop found an abandoned workers’ squat, which she likens to a chicken shack, and fitted it with a bedroll. She cooked outdoors over an open
A modern epic where Greece is the word (opens the original)
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The Monitor recently convened a panel of experts on the classics. Here’s what we learned. Christopher Nolan’s movie adaptation of “The Odyssey” features a cast of 5,000 extras. It was filmed in Morocco, Iceland, Italy, Scotland, and, of course, Greece. Every aspect of the production – from ships to costumes – is historically authentic. Well, apart from Odysseus’ American accent. We’ll let it slide, Matt Damon. Perhaps surprisingly for one of humankind’s greatest stories, this is Hollywood’s firs
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