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Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 27:08
Minneapolis-based artist Alondra Garza has been adding a little crunch to her recent body of work. And that crunch comes in the form of hot cheetos.
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 06:13
Sam Dunning and Stimson Snead talk jibs, self-acceptance, and the power of entropy.
- Added: Mar 13, 2024
- Length: 22:42
John Wilson, Head Berry and Founder of the Razzie Awards, talks dodging bullets, buying a sense of humor, and ruining a perfectly bad movie.
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 20:00
This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 54:00
In this second episode of our series on the career, legacy, aspirations and regrets of Whit Stillman, we hear from the filmmaker — as well as actor...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 52:44
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 03:03
We talk about some iconic movies from the 1970s, and their infamous villains–the killer hillbilly and his degenerate rural family.
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 37:16
In this episode we talk about who the instigators of terror are in horror movies, and why it matters whether they are from urban or rural areas
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 36:38
Author Matthew Batt talks about his new memoir "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem"
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 08:33
In our third episode, we turn our attention to the fear of isolation — both physical and emotional —and how it’s connected to portrayals of grief i...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 35:35
Join us for a closer look at a set of iconic movies that made a horror trope out of an over-the-top stereotype, introducing us to an infamous class...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 37:16
What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 09, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 07:42
Songs that ask questions along the spectrum ranging from bluegrass to jazz music.
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 01:57:37
The Life Of A Musician, Nashville, Alimony, and the Hangman in Dollar Country this week.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KIYU-FM, KSTK, and KHNS
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Are games just a fun way to pass the time, or do they do something more for us?
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2023
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 14
A life lesson is learned: sometimes you have to pretend to be the person you want to be first before you can be the person you need to be.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:00
All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
Paul Metsa talks about his new book “Alphabet Jazz”
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 19:26
George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Dec 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
World-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach [https://www.soilfoodweb.com/] has successfully been implemented to...
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
