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Bill Plympton talks mundane dreams, the honesty of hand-drawing, and the passion behind the passion.
- Added: Apr 18, 2015
- Length: 26:41
How do neighborhoods develop distinct identities? Why was San Francisco’s North Beach an enclave for poetry, for example? Or the Castro a haven for...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 07:06
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
For centuries, religion has sparked the design of some of the world’s most beautiful buildings. But what is that process? What built elements make ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:53
There’s a lot of talk in education circles these days about changing to the common core curriculum or changing from books to computers. But at Life...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 08:23
For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house and not on the slave cabins. But as contributor Kelley Lib...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 2
Nakkach’s musical philosophies are influenced by both Western and Eastern traditions. She was born in Argentina and attended Mills College before m...
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 02:31
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 09:50
Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 12:42
Readers form book clubs. Bowlers join leagues. What do motorcycle enthusiasts do? They ride, of course. Some head to Sturgis, South Dakota every ye...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:04
Behind a wall in a park in San Francisco, there’s a large and thriving vegetable garden. That might not seem like such a big deal. But the park is ...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 03:22
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Once or twice a month in the East Bay, violinists and bass-players, flautists and trumpeters -- gather to play orchestra music. But instead of a co...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 07:21
Emily Ritz and Kacey Johansing are best friends. They were both in separate bands and living in Marin County when they decided to go on tour togeth...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:53
- Purchases: 1
Sunset Youth Services is an organization that supports transitional age youth and their families with things like parenting classes, food assistanc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga.
Something many of them ha...
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Ira Sachs talks romance, self-discovery, and floating anxiety.
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 22:06
Before the great speech maker Patrick Henry died, he credited a Presbyterian minister named Samuel Davies with “teaching me what an orator should b...
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Sandip Roy reflects on the meaning, and sound, of India old and new.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Walking into ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records,’ one of the newest exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), feels like hanging o...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 1
Don Malcolm talks chance meetings, cultural metaphors, and the courage of convictions.
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 17:25
Most people think of the harmonica as a pastime for cowboys, or the go-to instrument for blues aficianados. But in Joe Powers' hands, the humble h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 07:16
- Purchases: 1
