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Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 28:53
Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 30:20
John and Annie Glenn's life story is one small step for a man and one giant leap for love!
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 14:53
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
Basil Smith, one of the prime movers behind this choir of children called the City Singers, talks about the transformative nature of music, an impa...
- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 24:15
The role of women, particularly Indigenous women, during the legendary fur trade in Minnesota is often overlooked. KFAI contributor Joe Friedrichs ...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 21:58
Avant interviews manhole artist, Bobbi Mastrangelo, who has a decades-long career celebrating the humble manhole cover, advocating for clean water,...
- Added: Sep 12, 2021
- Length: 19:46
Reggie LeFlore is a muralist with street art and graffiti influences. His first solo gallery exhibition takes place at Gamut Gallery in downtown Mi...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: May 31, 2021
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 1
How do we experience a gallery in digital space? That question gets explored by new media artist Snow Yunxue Fu and dance artist Lela Pierce in "Re...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the 1941 blizzard that killed dozens of people in Minnesota and North Dakota. The region has a reputation...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2021
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 2
A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 24:24
Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 26:58
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 25:37
- Purchases: 1
After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 26:58
- Purchases: 1
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction, He’s the genuine article. He now holds the world rec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2018
- Length: 15:04
Milling flour is an ancient art. While commercial, industrial milling has largely taken over, there are some who are continuing, and honoring, the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2018
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
Fifteen years ago, Pat Stark discovered a lifetime of artwork in her home. Most of the art she found had never been seen by anyone but the artist, ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 2
In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 33:50
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 26:43
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 27:52
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 24:33
