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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
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
Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass with Billy Strings
- Added: Dec 12, 2018
- Length: 20:33
Game of Throne's Ciaran Hinds stars in TWO CROWS APART. A couple braces themselves for unwanted houseguests, political correctness, and a murder of...
- Added: Jan 30, 2018
- Length: 22:11
Designer Manuel Cuevas crafted iconic outfits for Gram Parsons, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. At StoryCorps, he tells his daughter Morelia about h...
Bought by Public Radio for All, WOUB, WGUC/ WVXU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 4
There are plenty of good films out there, but I have to confess that the dominance of mediocre Hollywood pablum sometimes challenges my faith in ci...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 03:55
It seems that the more I love a film, the harder it is to describe exactly why. I think that’s because the best films reach a place that is deeper ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 03:56
Aquarius, a new film by Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, wants to make us comfortable before we enter its main story. In a prologue...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:23
Many would agree that 2016 was a terrible year in general, and I don’t need to explain why. It is strange to have to admit, then, that it was a gre...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:48
There’s a movie out called Jackie, with Natalie Portman playing Jackie Kennedy, and I kind of avoided it for awhile because I’m wary of films that ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:33
Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 12:45
The prolific author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series talks about his writing process.
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 09:57
Bang On a Can pianist Vicky Chow talks about her new releases; Composer-singer Danielle Eva Schwob and harpist Ashley Jackson discuss the upcoming ...
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 01:21:31
Founder and Head Berry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, John Wilson, talks egos, trends, and floating green bagels.
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 24:27
Jorma Kaukonen made a name for himself by being the guitarist in bands like Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. His distinctive finger pick technique ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2014
- Length: 08:42
Producer Taylor Tower spoke with Andy Sturdevant, creative director and host of the Minneapolis-based live arts show, Salon Saloon. Featuring clips...
- Added: Apr 06, 2013
- Length: 16:16
Two short plays. Oscar winner Chris Cooper and multiple Emmy winner Margo Martindale star in BITE THE HAND directed by Tony winner, John Rando. Ton...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Georgia Public Broadcasting, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 8
n Hawaiian Hula, singing and dancing going hand in hand. Join Patrick Makuakane, director of Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, a hula school and performance ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 58:01
Peter Lord talks animated dreams, ukulele outbreaks, and creative anachronisms.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 12:57
In 2008, double bassist and founder of the Musical Art Quintet, Sascha Jacobsen regularly attended the Sunday night chamber music jams at Cafe Revo...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 12:15
- Purchases: 3
2011 National Heritage Fellow and slack key guitar master Led Kaapana talks about making music the Hawaiian way.
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 27:07
- Purchases: 1
"I don't ever want you to open for me again" said Sarah Vaughan. The diva was paying her a compliment, but the modest Dianne Reeves didn't' know that.
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 8
Prolific pianist and composer Jason Moran fuses stride piano, avant-garde jazz and sampled sounds. Hear the 2010 MacArthur Fellow "a Texas computer...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 6
