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Rundown
for the Week of November 21, 2003
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Washington, DC, Winter Highlights
Last week, we found out how cozy Europe can be when the weather cools down; this week, we have winter ideas for visiting one of America's great cities, Washington, DC. We're not going to lie: DC is cold now, but it's also filled with amazing things to do. Its world-class museums host compelling exhibitions. And, one of its less visible neighborhoods is going through a cultural renaissance -- a revival built on the foundation of its history.
Web resources: Our Web resources on DC's art and history...
photo: Courtesy
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"America on the Move"
Host Diana Nyad takes a tour of the Smithsonian's new exhibit
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Host Diana Nyad gets a behind the scenes tour of the exhibition "America on the Move" with historian and curator Janet Davidson. It opens this weekend at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, and it's actually the biggest exhibit the museum has ever mounted. As Diana walks through the multimedia exhibit, she steps back in time and experiences transportation as it shaped American lives and the landscape.
Web resources
 americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove: Official exhibit Web site
Black America's First Culture Capital
by Rudy Maxa
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Our dealmeister Rudy Maxa knows Washington, D.C. As a resident, he has spent decades exploring every nook and cranny of the District of Columbia. This week, he takes us on a tour of the Shaw district, an area that was known as the cultural capital of African-American life long before the Harlem Renaissance in New York. Over the last decade, this neighborhood near the White House has been going through a rebirth with the renovation of many of its historic landmarks.
Web resource: "On the Prowl in DC: Black America's First Cultural Capital
" originally aired on January 29, 2000
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Spontaneous Heaven in Tanzania
by Jesse Kalisher
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Sometimes, it's the unexpected events that make our travels so unique. Reporter Jesse Kalisher and his wife were traveling in Tanzania recently. While in the small town of Mtae, in northeastern Tanzania, they went in search of bananas. As they walked, they heard church bells and, suddenly, the singing of saints. Inside the church, they found hundreds of people singing, praying and dancing -- and became awestruck participants.
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Music with Bob Duskis
Ojos de Brujo & Martyn Bennett
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Bob Duskis, co-founder of Six Degrees Records in San Francisco, is our world music guide. This week, he joins us with sounds from young Spanish musicians who use flamenco as a foundation for cross-genre experimentation, and from Martyn Bennett, a Newfoundland-born Scotsman who blends Scottish music with electronic programming and textures from dusty vinyl records.
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Web resources
Bari - Ojos de Brujo (label: Satelite K)
Grit - Martyn Bennett (label: Real World)
Available at the Public Music Radio Source. Your purchase helps support The Savvy Traveler.
Interested in other music you've heard on The Savvy Traveler?
Click here for music selected by Savvy producer Ben Adair.
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Sound Travels - Tuk Telpek Freshon
an ancient covered bazaar in Bukara, in today's Uzbekistan
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The history of Bukara, a desert oasis city in today's Uzbekistan, is ancient and cyclical -- it has spent a few centuries as the capital of this empire, that religious state, only to be discarded and virtually abandoned. Today, Bukara is more museum than metropolis, as the Uzbek government is pouring money into restoring the old city center. The ancient covered bazaars are open again. As you'll hear, they're filled with carpets, trinkets, merchants and music.
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Traveler's Aid: Traveling to Cuba
interview with Camila Ruiz and Robert Muse
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About a week ago, a congressional committee removed a provision from a bill that would have ended enforcement of the travel ban to Cuba. The ban is still in place, and it does have its supporters. Host Diana Nyad talks with Camila Ruiz, the Washington director of the Cuban American National Foundation, and gets her impressions on why we should not travel to Cuba now.
But despite the political climate in Cuba, many Americans oppose the ban and still travel there. Can you go legally, and what happens if you get caught traveling illegally? Diana chats with Robert Muse, an attorney with expertise on laws relating to Cuba.
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Deal of the Week
Off-Peak Fun at Our National Parks
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When we think of vacations in the winter, we often thing of warm climates or ski resorts -- we probably don't often think of national parks. But as our Travel-Expert-in-Residence, Rudy Maxa, says, there are great reasons for visiting in the off-season: The scenery is spectacular, the crowds are gone, and you can find great deals.
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