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Film Fatale: Dark times for independent movie theaters
From: KALW
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Take a walk down any major street in San Francisco and you’ll see them: dead movie theaters. Corpses. It’s hard not to shudder when you walk past o...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 10:21
Legacy of an Unknown Artist
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Robert Hamilton wanted to be known as the world's greatest unknown painter. When he died in 2004, he left behind 600 paintings. Now it is up to his...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Inspiration
From: BSR Radio
Series: Sine Languages
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This week on Sine Languages: Extended improv, meditation, the sounds that surround us.

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 25:32
  • Purchases: 1
To Believe
From: BSR Radio
Series: Sine Languages
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This week on Sine Languages: Fear and Glossolalia. The line between reason and ritual. Can we still believe in the face of all the subliminal messa...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 27:41
Brought to you by
From: BSR Radio
Series: Sine Languages
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This week on Sine Languages: we twist advertisments inside out, with auditory abstraction and statistical manipulation. We get up on all the latest...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 27:40
Letter Stations
From: BSR Radio
Series: Sine Languages
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The first real episode of Sine Languages. Featuring: Alphabet stations, drones, digital experiments and improvisation.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 26:58
Teens Who Tag
From: City High Radio
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High school freshman Trent likes to tag his name on things. Tagging, a form of graffiti, is popular with teenagers--they write their "tag" name on ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
A Conversation about Ballet with Stephen Manes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Stephen Manes discusses his book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, his inside look at a full season of Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet. [24:58]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
You Don’t Deserve this Home
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Joseph Eichler’s Mass Market Architectural Conceit

  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 06:19
9-11 and the Art of Darkness
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Ten Years After Karlheinz Stockhausen Adjusted Our Brains

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:33
Riddles from the Border Regions, 8/6/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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MY GRANDPA'S FACE IS BRILLIANT ORANGE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Cowboy Poet, Joel Nelson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Joel Nelson talks about how he grew to love poetry and how he writes and recites poetry, as well as growing up on a ranch and his love of horses, a...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 27:00
It's an Emergency!
From: Paula Mauro
Caption: one of Jenny Feder's houses
Examining the artistic process, with power tools.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2011
  • Length: 07:45
Drawing from Nightlife
From: Thomas Dodson
Series: Champs Not Chumps
Caption: Bunnies posing at Dr. Sketchy's, Credit: Justin Moore
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Live Feed Present: New X Art Ensemble
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Billy X Curmano and New X Art Ensemble
On this episode of "The Live Feed" KQAL's Teri Tenseth presents the area's most bothersome band, comprised of local musicians and artists. New X Ar...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 33:27
Finding the Muse
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Jazz Fest 2011
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At last weekend's 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lauren Peterson spoke with a member of the Muses, an all-female...

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
Sound Cave
From: Molly Samuel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Artist and composer Tyson Ayers builds new instruments out of cast-off pieces of old ones. But his instruments aren’t your usual guitars and drums....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Needle Drop: 04-09-11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from Panda Bear, Holy Ghost, and Apollo Brown.

Bought by KISU, KPVL, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 6
Christopher "Punch" Purdy on painting Little Haiti Mural for Mosaic of Art
From: George Fishman
Series: LITTLE HAITI MURAL
Caption: Chris Purdy at Little Haiti Mural, Credit: Mark Diamond
Artist CHRIS PURDY describes managing the Haiti Earthquake Commemorative mural in Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, FL.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 05:51
The Needle Drop: 02-19-11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from Mogwai, Nicolas Jaar, and Colin Stetson.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, KSJD, KISU, KPVL and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 57:12
  • Purchases: 8
No U-Turn Parts 1 and 2
From: Ron Littke
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A radio-noir movie in two parts. No U-Turn tells the story of love, fate, and a nightclub act gone awry. No U-Turn takes you from New York to Hol...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2011
  • Length: 01:52:47
The Manton Avenue Project
From: BSR Radio
Series: Off the Beat
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The Providence based Manton Avenue Project works to train young children in playwriting. The final result of the project is a full-fledged play pe...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2010
  • Length: 07:49
The Art of Dirk Nelson
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: "Sitting Nude in Yellow and Purple" 2007, Credit: Dirk Nelson
On Art Beat this week, we meet with Dirk Nelson, an artist who sculpts and draws. Nelson’s work primarily focuses on the human figure and there’s d...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 21:39
The Needle Drop: 11-27-10
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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New music from Maserati and Maps & Atlases.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 57:19
  • Purchases: 4
Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)
From: Emily Corwin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by WFHB, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 3

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