PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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Gypsy bling, James Bond, Google Trends and brilliant business owners turn passion and personality into profit.
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 20:03
In a series of audio postcards, the Weekday High Interns take you through the Pike Place Market ? stopping along the way at Marakesh Leathers, Gold...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:43
Today's show features an audio postcard of Seattle's Pike Place Market.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 2
Turn on the television at any hour, and you're bound to find a reality television show on. Many of these shows feature businesses - there are shows...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 07:39
I’m here at Pick-n-Pull to sell my beat-up 1998 Subaru Outback Legacy to the State of California under the Consumer Assistance Program, or CAP.
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 12:51
Andy Schneider IS the Chicken Whisperer. He doesn't profess to talk to chickens, but he does know everything you need to raise backyard poultry AND...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
Everyone's familiar with local laws that don't seem to make sense. In Tennessee, it’s illegal for grocery stores to sell wine, but legal to ride in...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 15:46
- Purchases: 1
Interviews with Darryl Jones and Juan Rodriguez. Darryl was an Assistant State's Attorney based at the jail, and Juan Rodriguez has run a food tru...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 14:05
Every single Thursday for the last five years Trish Witkowski has uploaded a video just meant for the few thousand people in the world that design ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 22:59
Comedian Carlos Mencia is notorious for stealing other comics’ jokes. But he’s never been sued—in fact, there are almost no lawsuits in comedy. On ...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 18:43
- Purchases: 2
There are challenges to running a little cow sanctuary in the center of one of the biggest cities in the world.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Noam Dworman, owner of popular club The Comedy Cellar, chats about booking comics, dealing with hecklers, managing pop-ins by renowned comedians, a...
- Added: Oct 15, 2013
- Length: 01:11:24
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
Destination DIY producer Alex Johnson has the story of a one-woman restaurant where customers can't help but feel like a part of the family.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Beep, beep, beep. Welcome Valued Customer. A college student profiles late-night grocery shopping in a college town, and what she finds is unexpected.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 03:05
Angel Quinonez first became interested in tattoos growing up next to a motorcycle club. He got his first tattoo when he was 17 and starting tattooi...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 3
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
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 12:52
- Purchases: 1
Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 2
A new restaurant is trying to corner the market on neighborhood pubs, with beer prices that fluctuate in real time, based on customer demand.
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
I’d heard of Silver Lake’s Secret Headquarters long before I’d ever set foot in the shop. A friend had described it as a “victorian drawing room fi...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 1
After losing a home and two breweries to fire, one German beermaker vowed not to let history repeat itself... and built an extraordinary house that...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 09, 2011
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
On the banks of the Detroit River, sits the J.W. Westcott. The ship is only 45 feet long. But believe it or not, it has its own zip code.
Since 1...
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 2
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 05:00
The writer Peter Hessler decodes the hidden messages of Chinese cigarettes in business deals.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WBEZ, and WTIP
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 3
