Celebrating Nikki Giovanni with scenes from "Going To Mars-The Nikki Giovanni Projest" and music from Al Green, Benjamin Gustafsson, Argueso And His Orchestra remixed By Freddy Fresh, Dex Romweber Duo with Cat Power, Domenico Modugno, Francis Michaud, The Four Lads feat. Keanu Reeves & Peter Falk,Hugues Aufray & Bernard Lavilliers, Jack Savoretti & Miles Kan, Lachi ft Medusa, Lucinda Williams, Novalima & Dom La Nena, The Pinkerton Raid, The Pogues, The Rolling Stones and Nikki Giovanni

Then we'll head back ten years for A Shortcut Through 2014 featuring tributes to Joe Cocker, Robin Williams, Pete Seeger, Joan Rivers, Sid Caesar, Ruby Dee, Tony Benn, Shirley Temple, Tommy Ramone, Eddie Lawrence (The Old Philospher), Mickey Rooney, Casey Kasem, Don Pardo, Hal Douglas, Maya Angelou, Bobby Womack, Phil Everly, Bob Hoskins, Marion Barry, David Brenner, Herb Jeffries, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Elaine Stritch, Aker Bilk, Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Gerry Goffin, Ralph Waite, Polly Bergen, Eli Wallach, Dick Jones (Pinocchio), Steve Post, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Paul Horn, Mike Nichols, Michael Brown and Eric Gardner. This year's Shortcut takes you on a trip through the events, music and sounds that make for a dense and "sound rich" celebration of 2014-including The Climate Change March, a big change in our relationship with Cuba, the growing unrest around the country with racial profiling, social injustice, and police confrontations, threats of terrorism spreading around the globe from Sydney to Pakistan to North Korea with corporate hacking, international border disputes, wars and invasions, plus all the scandals tragedies and triumphs. Music from Neil Young, Beck, Alicia Keys, Morrissey, The Black Keys, Spoon, The Killers, Micah P. Hinson, Pharrell Williams, The War on Drugs, The Roots, Red, Hot & Bach,  the Shirelles, The Chiffons,  The Everly Brothers, The Kaiser Chiefs with The Buena Vista Social Club, Alexandre Desplat plus Derek Jeter, Seth Rogen, Ralph Fiennes, Sterling Hayden, Billy Bob Thornton, Matthew  McConaughey, Jeff Goldblum, Martin Freeman, Carole King, Jon Landau, Tom Wilkinson, Nikita Kruschev, Alec Baldwin, Bill Cosby, Bill  Murray, James Gandolfini, Tracy Morgan, Chris Christie, Andrew Cuomo, Jon Stewart, Kim Kardasian, Key and Peele, Stephen Colbert, Adrien Brody, Bill deBlasio, Paul McCartney, Humphrey Bogart, Sarah Palin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Marshall Efron, Dick Cheney, Sting, Fidel & Raoul Castro , George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Vadlamir Putin, Nobel Peace prize winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay, UN Secretary-General Ban, Leonard Nimoy, John Zacherle, Wendall Craig, Bill St. James, Jimmy Stewart, Teddy Law and the voices of struggle in 2014.