Travel

The Real Mardi Gras
By Becky Flaum

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Photo Credit: Becky Flaum



Everyone knows the "Girls Gone Wild" version of the Fat Tuesday celebrations, but what do the people who actually live in New Orleans do?

Get on the Bus
By Phillip Molnar

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A diverse group of passengers take the Megabus to Washington D.C. - with a purpose.


Feeling the Panamanian Brass
By Sara Goldblatt (co-produced by Wills Glasspiegel)

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Follow the drums and brass through the trees in Prospect Park: you will find the International Panamanian Brass Band practicing for its yearly national Independence Day parade held in Crown Heights on October 10. Hundreds of musicians, shaking up the park until the wee hours of the morning. 


Outsourcing
Looking for Cesaria
By Jeremi Nureni Banafunzi

Jeremi is in Cap Verde, and he is on a quest: he is searching for the house of the mythical singer Cesaria Evora. We follow him on his journey through the streets of the colorful archipelago, into a musical haze that incorporates Creole, Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

The End of The Dial