Protesters plan to descend on Apple stores around the world, including in Washington, on Thursday to protest labor conditions in the company’s manufacturing facilities in China. The issue has become a thorny one for Apple after the factories that make its products experienced explosions in 2011 and worker suicides in 2010. A recent report in The New York Times contained graphic descriptions of cramped working conditions and the voices of workers who said they were suffering injuries from repetitive motion and exposure to chemicals. Read full article > >

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Apple store protests planned for Thursday

It was a Wednesday in August 1963. Melody and electricity were commingling in the breeze as a quarter of a million Americans sang along with Joan Baez on the Mall. We shall overcome, someday. After that came Bob Dylan, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, Marian Anderson, Josh White and the SNCC Freedom Singers, all raising their voices against racial injustice at the March on Washington. Read full article > >

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For protest songs, times are a-changin’

Goats are able to recognise the voices of their own kids, differentiating them from other animals’ offspring, according to researchers.

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Goats recognise their kids’ voices

Women’s Media Center Progressive Girls Voices Journalists interview Gloria Steinem.

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Progressive Girls Voices Interview With Gloria Steinem at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (Video)

This was supposed to be the week of another “showdown” in Congress. Now, the very word makes politicians squeamish.

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Temporarily, at least, voices are lowered in Washington

Apparently, the runaway-train action film Unstoppable didn’t live up to its title as DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind took the Hollywood box-office crown this weekend, grossing $30.1 million. The superhero comedy, featuring the voices of Will Ferrell…

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Megamind Runs Over Unstoppable

Two very different comedies-one a raunchy road trip film from the makers of The Hangover and the other an animated superhero movie-battled it out at the box office this weekend, and the kids won out. Megamind, starring the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad…

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Kid Film Megamind Tops Due Date

You hear their voices over the airplane speakers and you sometimes catch a glimpse of them as they inspect a plane before departure, but for the most part airline pilots remain a mystery.

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Secrets pilots won’t tell you

Are students about to make their voices heard?

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Rebel yell

Collaged fake album covers by Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard by Noah Armstrong Before Robert Pollard formed the seminal lo-fi band Guided by Voices , he was a high school student making imaginary album covers for imaginary bands. The collage style of these mock album covers would eventually manifest itself in much of the album art for Guided by Voices, and a multitude of his solo and side projects. Pollard regularly visits flea markets and antique shops looking for magazines, posters, and text books—anything old that can be taken apart and re-assembled in two-dimensions. His collages combine type and imagery in a way that seem to recall a bygone era that never actually existed. The resulting aesthetic lies somewhere between British Invasion poster art, B movies and the pictures one might find in a decades old photo album. Eschewing digital mediums, each piece is made entirely of glue and paper. Pollard’s collages and songwriting share many similarities. Both seem shrouded in an esoteric surrealism, lean heavily on accessible pop aesthetics and are delivered with a sense of honesty and rudimentary production. “They both have to do with re-assembling familiar imagery to create interesting landscapes,” he says. “One with sight, the other with sound.” “The Public Hi-Fi Balloon “—an exhibit of Pollard’s recent collages—will show at the 45 Space in New York at the end of this month. Set up to look like a fake record store, it will be comprised of imagined LP and seven-inch covers as well as a rack of fake magazine covers. Mr. Pollard will be present for the 27 August 2010 opening and the show runs until 28 August 2010.

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The Public Hi-Fi Balloon