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Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration

TIME article: Does Facebook Replace Face Time, or Enhance It?

The directors behind BBC's "Planet Earth" have joined with Disney to create a nature epic called "Earth"... see photos and video here. It will premiere in the U.S. on April 22, 2009

Clinton vows 'smart mix' of diplomacy and defense; her Senate confirmation hearings begin Tuesday

Israeli forces enter Gaza City neighborhood; massive protests continue around the world. Second article: "Europe fears spike in anti-Semitism as Gaza burns"

Videos: Herbert Von Karajan - Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 -- (over an hour of wonderful music in parts one and two)

Toxic coal ash piling up in ponds in 32 states

Video: Yiruma - "River Flows in You"

Video: Irfan, a Bulgarian band (lead singer is Vladislava), perform "Mari Maro" live in Paris, 2006

Video: Lhasa de Sela, "El Desierto"

Video: What would Napoleon Dynamite look like as a back-up dancer for Madonna?

Video: R. Carlos Nakai and Nawang Khechog, "Wisdom"

Video: Lux Aurumque, by Eric Whitacre

Video: Fitness for Cats -- who needs a treadmill? (quite humorous)

'Forgotten' Lake Hartwell highlights South's stubborn drought

Internet game sensation gives players a chance to throw a shoe at Bush. Called "Sock and Awe," the virtual President Bush has been struck in the face by 21 million shoes

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino reveals her black eye (calling it a shoe-venir)... while Iraqi journalist and 'shoe attacker' Muntadhar al-Zeidi nurses a broken arm and ribs. Demonstrators take to the streets waving their shoes

Thorough photo and video footage of the moment an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush in Iraq. Bush joked about the incident, and thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to protest for the journalist's release from custody

Fare thee well, Gram. Video: Images from NASA, both of Earth and our solar system, set to the song "Sailing to Byzantium" by Lisa Gerrard

From Chile: Homeless dog risks life to pull another dog out of busy traffic and onto a median after it had been hit by a car. Video...

The incredible skill of Anoushka Shankar has my utmost respect... enjoy her solo sitar performance of "Your Eyes" (shown here as the opening number at the "Concert For George" in 2003)

Thanks very much to KJ of the Wildlife Heritage Fund, who sent us this video of the gorgeous Amur leopard cubs previously featured on Luciole Press Blog... Check out more about the WHF, and melt over the cubs!

What's Old Is New: 12 Living Fossils. "To navigate the currents of ecological fate, most creatures adapt — but a few have stuck to their evolutionary guns"

Video and lyrics: Loreena McKennitt - Penelope's song

Video: El Condor Pasa - CantoAndino

The Mayan calendar, along with many other cultures' calendars, ends on the Winter Solstice of 2012 (December 21st). What could happen? Now we have an epic disaster film to fill in the blanks of worldwide destruction: Watch the really cool video!

Video: Muse, "Sing for Absolution"

Loreena McKennitt - Night from the Alhambra (scenes from the DVD, with lovely narration from Loreena)

Video: Loreena McKennitt's song "Kecharitomene," off the "An Ancient Muse" album. The song was inspired by the ancient Byzantine princess and historian Anna Comnena; read about her story both on the video screen and below (plus, The Alexiad)

Video: Sigur Ros - Glósól

Video of the song Stand By Me performed by many artists in different countries. From Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. Thanks to Luciole Press contributor Shelley Bluejay Pierce for sending this in!

The Passion of Flamenco: song and guitar by Ramon Ruiz, dance by Anita la Maltesa

Video: Mozart - Requiem - Lacrimosa

Video: Lithuanian zoo welcomes new lion cub

Video: Courtyard Lullaby, by Loreena McKennitt

Video: SNL skit on the VP debate, and an article, "Comic Relief: What to watch when you can't cry about the stock market anymore"

Video: Johnny Cash and Burl Ives singing 3 Civil War era songs, "Mary, Don't You Weep," "Eatin' Goober Peas," and "Lorena"

Video/song: Mychael Danna - Driving in the Rain

Bulgarian band Irfan, with lead singer Vladislava (live, Paris 2006)

Azam Ali sings "A Chantar M'er"

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2, by Wilhelm Kempff. Recorded in Paris in 1968

Two wonderful versions of Alela Diane singing "Oh! My Mama." Watch both! Alela Diane is a singer from Nevada City, California

Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1962. "Habanera"

Simon Rattle conducts violinist Vadim Repin and the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory: Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 BPO Repin Adagio (2/3)

Benjamin Britten’s "Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra" and artwork by Maggi Hambling, "The Scallop"

Unbelievably adorable video sent in by Carson: Tiger Cubs at St. Louis Zoo

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, dies age 47. Also: a video of his lecture, and an older article from 2007

Video: hilarious Kristen Schaal in an older clip from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"... "Sexism: The media treats Hillary Clinton like a Hooter's waitress, so Kristen Schaal strips to the Indigo Girls to end the sexism"

Indian actress Sushmita Sen in Bollywood movie "Fiza" singing "Mehboob Mere"

Video from JibJab: Time for Some Campaignin'

Luciole Press friend and contributor video: David Smith was a featured reader at the Literary Cafe in Cleveland's July 2008 poetry reading.

Lhasa De Sela: video for "Con Toda Palabra"

Video: Flutterby (music by Counterfeit Gypsies). Animation of fascinating bugs from the Australian bush inspired by Sir David Attenborough's work

Video of "The Rifle" by Alela Diane. She is from Nevada City, CA

Check out Luciole Friend Alison Mackie's BLOG. She is the author of The Gypsy Chronicles. See her video, and watch a video of Estrella Morente singing!

Hilarious Kristen Schaal on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: "Dear Madame President"

Video footage of Nicolasa and Domingo Pianezzi surfing in Peru

Featured Artist for February's Issue of La Luciole Magazine: Girls Rock! The Movie

Bjork and the best cat montage ever... truly!