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For this year's Thanksgiving mix, we bring you music — like rapper Azealia Banks' playful Spanish-language turn — that will help you dance and dige...

Bought by WART FM, KBBI Alaska, and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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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 ...

Bought by KVSC and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 18:43
  • Purchases: 2
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The first segment welcomes back guest DJ John Mueller, bringing his taste in vocalists and US west coast jazz. Sounds then evolve thru Latino rhyt...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 2
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These bizarre, meandering opinions on immigration will make you wish that citizens could be declared illegal.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
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Immigrant kids get a taste of the American dream as they shave alpacas for a hillbilly.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 03:43
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Immigrant kids learn the ABC’s of getting shafted at the border.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
Caption: Gabriel Iglesias, San Francisco, CA 6/24/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gabriel Iglesias talks bacon cakes, losing weight, and why comedy can do more than just make people laugh.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mexico’s passionate soccer fans and colorful fiestas are in full gear for the World Cup. Lilia Fuquen reports that perhaps the strongest pillar of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angelica Guillen
Angelica, a local artist, talks about her life after growing up in a migrant camp, her father, being an educator, as an activist as well as reading...

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:12
Caption: Nick Frost, San Francisco, CA 3/28/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nick Frost talks sequins, alcohol, and why not every romantic comedy should end in a kiss.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 09:13
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Pianist, bandleader, composer and 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri talks about his innovative music which blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz. ...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 32:22
  • Purchases: 3
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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
Caption: maDCap with Moombahton Massive, Credit: Jess Leitsch
A love letter to the genre birthed by Dave Nada and nurtured by our other guests: Matt Nordstrom of NADASTROM, Super-producer Munchi and Sol Select...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 30:33
Caption: Michael Cera & Sebastian Silva, San Francisco, CA  5/7/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michael Cera and Sebastian Silva talk the creativity of improv, the excitement of failure, and being open to the moment.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 15:56
Caption: Gilbert Zermenño (L) and Pat Powers-Zermeño (R)
Gilbert Zermeño tells his wife, Pat Powers-Zermeño, about wanting to join the school band when he was in 6th grade.

Bought by WDBM and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Poet Ruth Nolan and Musician Frankie Hernandez.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Remastered Tito Puente 78s on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Early Latin Jazz fills the air when the remastered 78 RPM records of Tito Puente are heard on the 27th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 57:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Crossing the Rio Bravo.
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:06
Caption: Angel Quinonez
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
Caption: Nicholas Herrera
Nicholas Herrera is a contemporary artist whose art builds on and expands the traditional art of the Northern New Mexico Santero. I visited with hi...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:11
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In this Cutting Edge Special, some of the work of late poet Louis Reyes is highlighted through live performances at WBAI and his show "Perspective"

  • Added: Apr 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:03
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The Arizona Book Banning and Burning Board, a division of the Arizona Dept of Education, today outlawed any teaching of, or reference to, the Bible...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:47
Caption: Lorraine Lopez
Fiction writer Lorraine Lopez was a 2010 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, with her collection HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES. She...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Meliza Arellano tells Sarah Benko, her former seventh-grade teacher, about how she became a serious student.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2