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Caption: Alondra Garza creates art with hot cheetos, Credit: Sheila Regan
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
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What happens when a photographer, a mature woman herself, welcomes older women into her studio to get the full glamour treatment? In this episode o...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Meet people who collect uncommon items like barf bags, tiny chairs, and bricks.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: Dudley Riggs in 2012, Credit: Sheila Regan
"Instant Theater" was a term that Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop theater came up with in the 1950s. The former circus and vaudevil...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 17:42
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This hour — and in the wake of ‘Oppenheimer’s big Oscar weekend — a look at the filmmaker behind ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Memento,’ and mor...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
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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
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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
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On this episode of Audacious, meet one of the best baristas in the world, an artist who uses coffee as a medium, and a man determined to visit ever...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: Fans at the Beatles only concert in Minnesota, Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In the summer of 1965, the Beatles were the hottest act in the world. And for the first — and only time — John, Paul, George and Ringo were coming ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 35:39
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Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006 Errors and Omissions Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Seamus Sinclair joins us to talk about the new Sugar Loaf Theatre. Original air date: 12/06/22

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 26:44
Caption: HUGE Improv Theater has purchased the Art Materials building and will transform the south half of the building into a theater., Credit: Sheila Regan
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: A Death Cafe discussion group meets at the Rogue Buddha Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis, Credit: Twin Cities Death Cafe Facebook
Death is a scary to talk about. But some people in Minneapolis meet up every month to talk about just that. It’s called Death Cafe, and KFAI's Matt...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:03
Caption: Celebrating Quincy Jones, Credit: (c) Raposa Media, LLC
This fast-paced radio special celebrates the life and career of Quincy Jones.

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 56:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Join host Hanif Abdurraqib for a special episode of Object of Sound, from PRX and Sonos, reflecting back on the year in music. December is the per...

Bought by WVTF, WRGY, KVCR, KUT, KQED and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Jennifer and Reed in Birch Bay, WA, Credit: Monica Jane Frisell
Portrait of US is a living, transforming and growing collection of stories from throughout the United States: Jennifer and Reed tell us their about...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2022
  • Length: 12:06
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Bluegrass, Jazz & Grassicana tunes with days of the week in their title

  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:42
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Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:13
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden Takes a second look at the British second wave of rock music

  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 55:56
Caption: Mike Quinn, Credit: Mike Quinn
Mike Quinn’s first professional puppetry gig was working for Jim Henson on The Great Muppet Caper. His second job was working on The Dark Crystal....

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 01:30:27
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jim Napolitano, Credit: Jim Napolitano
Jim Napolitano is the creator of Nappy’s Puppets. He’s known throughout the US as one of the leading shadow puppetry artists performing today. In...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:16:47
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host carl Freuden takes a second look at his collection of miles David records

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:37
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Host Carl Freuden Explore White Artiest who have covered Black Artist music

  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 53:40
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden Finds Bob Dylan Covers on 45's

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 54:32