PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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San Francisco is a bike-friendly city, despite its famous hills. There are designated bike lanes on streets throughout town, and the number of ride...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 04:59
World Cup fever has infected the entire world... including Kolkata, India!
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 04:30
An Indian election campaign is not entirely unlike a Bollywood film. The heroes and villains might flip flop depending on your party preference. B...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Inside a huge ice rink in San Jose, where the Sharks hockey team practices, thirty-two men and women are laughing, yelling, and taking turns sweepi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:31
In a quiet spot, just west of the bustle of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, sits a garden dedicated to English literature’s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
The weekend is a time for relaxing or maybe going to dinner and a show with friends. One typical scenario is you meet up with them, get dinner. Now...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 2
Your watch is your personal trainer. Your headband is making an action documentary of your life. Your bracelet congratulates you on your daily wate...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 3
Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:59
If you happen to walk by the Radio Habana Social Club on Valencia Street on a Sunday afternoon, you might hear Rumba, the music of Cuba. Radio Haba...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:00
For many, the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland is the go-to place to apply for food stamps, get medical coverage, find childcare, and get job a...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 06:27
Can you name California’s State Song? Are you even aware that California has a State Song? Well, it does, and it used to be sung widely at special ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 10:47
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!
Featuring Musician Sassy Vee and Artist David Phillips.
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 57:59
Downtown Washington, D.C. is a sea of bollards. Some people love them. Others can’t stand them. Regardless of how anyone feels about this perimeter...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
Philly Youth Radio’s Yingci Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She's noticed that Chinese immigrant parents often don't want their kids ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 2
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 2
After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 1
If you’ve already visited a haunted house or plan to do so on Halloween, chances are you’ll see something designed to scare you that’s been created...
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 05:53
Writer/director Martin McDonagh and star Sam Rockwell talk the impact of violence, the difference between stage and screen, and why Rockwell would ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 10:32
The Brave New Workshop has helped launch the careers of humorists such as Al Franken and Tom Davis, the first head writers for Saturday Night Live...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2012
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
When summer monsoons come to the southwest, abundant runoff leads to major problems for cities—streets flood and temporary ponds appear that serve ...
- Added: Aug 11, 2012
- Length: 04:55
Pinetop Perkins wanted to leave a legacy to the youth, so he created the Pinetop Perkins Master Workshops to further deepen the young musicians' kn...
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 10:23
Of our five senses, sound and taste might not seem to have that much in common. But if you ever find yourself at a fast food joint that blasts the...
- Added: May 12, 2012
- Length: 05:12
We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among othe...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 11:35
