Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Marshall has several old Ford cars, so he’s got options if one decides not to start up for him on any given day. He’s happy to be living an old fashioned lifestyle, one that suits this isolated island. Next, we join Genevieve Kurilec McDonald at work aboard her own lobster fishing boat. She explains which lobsters she can keep, and which must be thrown back.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Genevieve works long hours fishing for lobsters aboard her small boat. It’s a hard job, but she enjoys the freedom and peace that it brings her. She’d like to carry on this way, but the future of the industry is uncertain, with rising lobster stocks and falling prices.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
After seeing some local landmarks around Penobscot Bay, we meet David Moses Bridges, who has revived the tradition of his ancestors and become a maker of wooden canoes, which are constructed using basic hand tools and traditional techniques.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
David uses animal fat and pine sap to seal the birch bark hull of each canoe, making it waterproof and seaworthy. His beautiful hand-crafted canoes often sell to museums, but David still paddles them across open water into Canada to visit his relatives.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
The delightful soul/hip-hop performer Maya Azucena shares her talent and wisdom gained from growing up in Flatbush Brooklyn. Also a quick look at an African American rapper who can rhyme in Japanese!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Maya Azucena talks about her various influences, which range from classic soul to gospel to synth pop. She talks about her experience growing up mulitiracial in an African American neighborhood and how it shaped her worldview.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Vanessa Hidary is a New York poet and performer who tackles issues of race , ethnicity and identity both onstage and off. She mixes rap, observation and story telling to explore difficult themes and issues of importance to us all.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
With Britpop at its peak, bands such as Oasis and Blur vied to have the biggest hits, but it was The Verve who struck a chord with perhaps the most memorable song of the era, “Bitter Sweet Symphony." But even their success was bittersweet, as they were promptly sued by the Rolling Stones, who claimed the band had stolen one of their melodies without permission.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
On the TV talent show, The Voice, Jennifer Hudson performs “Memory,” the show-stopping ballad from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed musical, Cats. Jennifer also sang this part in a movie adaptation of the musical.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Jamaica
Bunny Wailer and other other one-time bandmates of reggae legend Bob Marley recall the rough and tumble early days of the band in Kingston. This is a must-see for all reggae fans, especially the soulful a capella chorus of "Small Axe" sung by Bunny at the end of the video!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Canada
This smash hit from Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer The Weeknd comes from his album After Hours. The song reached number one in more than thirty countries, and in the United States it was the first song ever to remain in the top ten of the Billboard charts for over a year!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Jimmy Fallon can't believe he's at the White House on the Fourth of July. Watch part of his stand-up performance from that evening in which he does impressions of ten other comedians!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
One of the great rock bands of all time, the Who, perform the song "Pinball Wizard" from their rock opera Tommy.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Jennifer's life couldn't be more different from that of her sister, who is married with three kids. Jenny's committed to her job and being a good aunt, but little else. This all changes when her sister takes off to Europe with her husband, leaving her alone with the kids.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
As well as guidebooks, Jenny brings her sister Mandy a gift to encourage her to have more fun on her Paris holiday. As Jenny leaves for a date with boyfriend, Quinn, she bumps into Will, Mandy’s new neighbor.
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