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Uh, NPR’s Turning The Tables just put M.I.A.’s Paper Planes at #1 of 200 greatest songs by women and non-binary artists in the new millennium. Article.

And last month Rolling Stone named Paper Planes the #2 song of the century, so far.

Director Paula Eiselt, Ezras Nashim founder Ruchie Freier, and Huffbunny lead producer of 93Queen, Heidi Reinberg, in a Q&A following one of the Sunday, July 29 screenings. Heidi have a shoutout from the stage to the 11th Street family, a gaggle of who were in the audience. Hoot!

Heidi is lead producer in this, kids. 93Queen. Opens Wednesday the 25th and runs through the 31st @ IFC.

“Forget Supergirl and Wonder Woman. To see a real female superhero in action, check out Paula Eiselt’s documentary concerning the creation of an all-female, Hasidic EMT corps.”

Hey, congratulations to Huffbunnies Cheatle & Hearst – the Kickstarter campaign for Dempsey Rice’s The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks has now passed it’s funding goal (but there are still a few days left to give more, if you’re feeling flush).

Lookie here!

We are all your babies tonight.

7th Ave. busk

Huffbunnies, this is a note from Jim on the morning of the 23rd. Click all the way through to read the whole thing.

(Audio is from Erin.)

OK, so far highlights have included the ringing of the titanium bell at Solstice Solar Noon (actually 1:17PM). The bell is the nosecone of an oxygen tank from an Apollo mission, which one of the engineers took home and made into his barbecue grill (it’s worth about $30,000, but would cost much more to melt down for reuse). The engineer eventually gave it to his daughter, who used it for a planter, and one day a visitor, the redoubtable Bruce Odland, discoverer of the Tank, asked about it. It’s a planter, he was told. No, it’s not, he said, it’s a bell. She had to gave it to him. When struck, it rings a loud, rolling bass tone for three minutes. We suspended it from the center of the Tank, and took turns ringing it with a clublike mallet. As it settled on its pendular cable, the bell hummed on and on as the Tank took up its resonance and sang it back in a hundred voices and overtones.

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