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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 17:02
I could be over thinking the feeling I got when I saw that lone coati from the now named coati mundi bluff, but it was wonderful. The other flora a...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 04:17
Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:33
With the MET OPERA dark in February I needed something to do. Jazz is always there and so marvelous in New York. Yet…
I searched for a quick secon...
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 58:15
It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 03:25
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
The bigtooth maple is no longer in its own family of Aceraceae, but is in Sapindaceae. Molecular taxonomy keeps us plant geeks on our toes.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:29
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:28
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
Armand Boatman 2 of 2: To recap volume 1, the guy had it from note one in the ’50, the build & climax feature of his trio playing style was fully o...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 58:00
A craftsman spells out the Bassic Fundamentals: get your Jazz chops right!
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 23:50
We’ll hear from piano players young and old, and music from Bach to Adams on today’s What’s New.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
In this hour of The Roadhouse, I’ve got some blues that have crossed over from country, a band that was in some of the very early editions of The R...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
Contemporary blues, classic blues, the next generation – this hour’s got it all. But, that’s what we do in The Roadhouse, right? Mix it all up and ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 12, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
Riccardo Muti is the new (named May 2008) Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Previously he led the Philadelphia Orchestra and (the)...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :31
Conductor Marin Alsop has recorded most of Brahms' orchestral works during the last few years. Although Brahms' symphonies are epic in both sound ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :19
Composed while Chopin was still a teenager, Pianist Garrick Ohlsson calls Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 "as great a masterpiece as anybody has ever ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 2
