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Five Years of Small Business Saturday: How American Express and Local Retailers Are Changing Small Business Culture
From: PJA Advertising + Marketing
Series: The Unconventionals Season 3
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It seems odd that a large corporation would launch a campaign that’s neither proprietary nor tightly controlled. So when American Express — a not-s...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 31:16
Sculptor Zoran Mojisilov
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:22
Collage artist Zach Collins collaborates with creatives around the world
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minneapolis-based collage artist Zach Collins loves to collaborate. During the past three years he's put together two books showcasing his team spi...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
Sport bikers gather for a wheelie good time
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Readers form book clubs. Bowlers join leagues. What do motorcycle enthusiasts do? They ride, of course. Some head to Sturgis, South Dakota every ye...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:04
The (political) lure of Minnehaha Falls
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
Prison fellowship aids in recovery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Outdoor Afro explores Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
NaNoWriMo
From: David Berner
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tell 'Em I'm Gone
From: Joyride Media
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Intimate hour of music and conversation with Yusuf / Cat Stevens about life, music and his new album.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KPIP-LP, WMMT, KPVL, WFAE and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tell 'Em I'm Gone - Part 1
From: Joyride Media
Series: Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tell 'Em I'm Gone - Shorts
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First of four short segments featuring Yusuf/Cat Stevens with excerpts of new songs from Tell 'Em I'm Gone as featured on NPR First Listen.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 2
Bob Dylan & The Band - Complete Basement Tapes - Part 1
From: Joyride Media
Series: Bob Dylan & The Band - Complete Basement Tapes - Shorts
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Bob Dylan biographers Sid Griffin, Clinton Heylin and Greil Marcus begin this series on Dylan's The Basement Tapes with the Band by calling it "a m...

Bought by Radio Catskill, PRX Remix, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 3
Military Food - Is it healthy?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Has No Borders
From: Tom & Debra Weistar
Series: Voices of the Future: Youth and Elders Speak Together
Caption: On the Baja CA Coast
Juan learns about the conservation efforts of WildCoast, an organization based in Imperial Beach, California, and Ensenada, Mexico, that works on b...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 11:56
  • Purchases: 2
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
A Bunch of Boats in the Boatyard
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 2
If a Moose Falls in a Forest
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Questioning the threat to moose in Maine

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 2
Still Rooted in Potatoes
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
Early Bloom
From: Peter Frick-Wright
Series: 30 Minutes West
Caption: David Rhoades at home near Willapa Bay, Credit: Courtesy of Ross Rhoades
When plant researcher David Rhoades found evidence that plants could communicate, it was a paradigm-shifting discovery. But it could not have come ...

Bought by WTJU, HowSound, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 5
All Mirth and No Matter
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Caption: The Reduced Shakespeare Company
The things in Shakespeare the make us laugh, and the things that don't anymore -- and why.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 27:40
Reinventing Retail, One Story at a Time
From: PJA Advertising + Marketing
Series: The Unconventionals Season 3
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Is it a store, an art gallery, or a magazine? According to founder Rachel Shechtman, Story is a little bit of all three. Based in the Chelsea neigh...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 26:43
Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted: Contrarian Thinking About Business Metrics
From: PJA Advertising + Marketing
Series: The Unconventionals Season 3
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Many unconventional brands are proving that you can succeed while managing around ideas that aren’t typically measurable. With the right leadership...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 14:42
Bless thee! Thou art translated
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
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When Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages, does it cease to be Shakespeare?

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 24:11
Chef Vivian Howard
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Chef Vivian Howard, Credit: Tanner Latham
Vivian Howard is the chef at Chef and the Farmer in the small Eastern North Carolina town of Kinston. She also "co-stars" with her husband Ben Knig...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Under the Greenwood Tree
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
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The history of Shakespeare outdoors

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 31:16
Anderson Center spearheads new residency program
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: (L to R) Jeremy Quiroga, Lilah Katcher, Raymond Luczak (w/guide dog “Rocky”), Bex Freund, Rachel Mazique
The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, welcomes temporary residents, but for the first time this year, they are offering a month exclusively f...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1

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