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For Sandip Roy, after growing up in India America was a culture shock. After 20 years in America living in India was its own culture shock. Everyth...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk.
Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:59
Keeping Me Humble is a podcast about the tough things in life...the stuff that keeps us humble.
Today...stories of failure.
Host Steven Chua on why...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 16:19
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
Producer Cheri Trusler's grandparents had a lot of cows to sell right around the time cattle prices in Montana were at their highest. That windfall...
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 04:45
A couple who fell in love during Hurricane Sandy shares how their romance blossomed on the platforms of New York City's subway.
- Added: Feb 08, 2015
- Length: 02:59
Yonder Mountain String Band has always played music by its own set of rules. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other influences, Yonder has pi...
- Added: Feb 01, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
The end of year issues all over magazine stands in India all carry photo spreads of the icons we lost. Famous people from the world of politics and...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Off-Ramp contributor Collin Friesen takes a humorour look at the differences between Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 04:38
It was 1944, Don was about to ship off to war...
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 02:03
Irasema Gonzalez talks about coming of age as a young Latina in 1990s Chicago, and how her definitions of love and womanhood shifted with the passi...
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- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 1
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 05, 2014
- Length: 01:47
Andy Holliden's interest in Frank Zappa first manifested itself while he was in high school. Beyond listening to the music and poring over linear n...
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- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 17:11
- Purchases: 1
From the above-named new book, author Deborah Jaffe reads an amusing passage illustrating how a classic novelist is celebrated in pop culture.... J...
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 08:16
The story of the Fruchters, an orthodox Jewish family who lived above Elvis Presley’s family in a house in Memphis. They would often call on teenag...
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 3
Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 2
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...
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- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.
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- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 11:57
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2