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Live Wire! Radio - Episode 158 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Filmmaker Curt Ellis, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include Filmmaker/Co-Founder of FoodCorps, Curt Ellis, Storyteller Katrina Scotto di Carlo, Canadian musician, Dan Mangan.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 2
Cultural Vampirism, aka Hipsters Are Vampires
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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The nebulously-named Hipster is defined and ridiculed.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio and KUT


  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Live Feed Presents: Boom! An International Lost & Found Family Marching Band
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this edition of The Live Feed, KQAL's Teri Tenseth talks with Boom - an eclectic group of musicians that incorporate marching band elements into...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 45:58
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio Episode 164
From: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Eclectic Indie Band Typhoon, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Current Oregon Poet Laureate PAULANN PETERSEN. Her latest book is The Voluptuary. KATE BEATON, cartoonist for The New Yorker, brings her highly a...

Bought by KUT, Rhythm & News Service, WNJR, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
A Scary Home Companion
From: Doug Gordon
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What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
Live Wire! Radio Episode 161
From: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KUOW, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Bluegrass With Mustard Show Halloween Special
From: Dan Sadowsky
Caption: The Old Pastor, Credit: Painting: William Matthews
From the creaking, haunted Church of the Nifty Blue Chrysler, former Telluride Bluegrass Festival emcee Pastor Mustard and his undead sidekicks dig...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Door Belle
From: Ryan Scammell
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The alternate title for this was going to be the Isaac Hayes-esque "Girl, I Wanna Get You Into My Belly Button T-Shirt Hole" but the mp3 title fiel...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:38
Live Wire! Radio Episode 158 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Curt Ellis, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include Filmmaker/Co-Founder of FoodCorps, Curt Ellis, Storyteller Katrina Scotto di Carlo, Canadian musician, Dan Mangan.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 54:53
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 157 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Blind Pilot, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: radio talk show host Adam Klugman, award-winning poet Anis Mojgani, musical guests Blind Pilot.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 154 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Matthew Inman, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests Include Matthew Inman (Creator of The Oatmeal), Essayist/Artist Margaret Malone, and musical guest Dolorean

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 123 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: 3 Leg Torso, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include filmmaker Taggart Siegel w/ beekeeper Jacqueline Freeman, MusicFest NW organizer Trevor Solomon, and musical guest 3 Leg Torso.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 133 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Erin McKeown, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: rising star filmmaker Andy Blubaugh, food critic Karen Brooks and singer/songwriter Erin McKeown.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 139 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Gus Van Sant, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: Filmmaker Gus Van Sant, Carrie Brownstein from the IFC series "Portlandia", world music drummer Obo Addy.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 138 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Dan Savage, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
It's the holidays....in July! We hope this encore edition, featuring Dan Savage and Thao Nguyen, cools you off.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 143 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Wesley Stace
Guests include: Author Wesley Stace aka musician John Wesley Harding, Eastern European gypsy/jazz/klezmer punk band Chervona and storyteller Aaron ...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Hiding
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A series of strange people tell where they hide a familiar object.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 148
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: AGESANDAGES, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include writer and filmmaker Jon Raymond, the Third Angle Ensemble with composer Eve Beglarian and 7 peice band AGESANDAGES.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 101 Encore, Best of Combos
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: John Roderick, Jonathan Coulton, John Hodgeman
Guests include: Chuck Barris, Dave Frishberg, Bruce Campbell, John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick, Alison Bechdel and Lynda Barry and...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 124 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Lizz Winstead, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire
Guests include: comedian Lizz Winstead, singer/songwriter Bobby Bare, Jr., and The Portland Opera.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
A Taste of PIE
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Major cities like Boston and New York are known for their theater, comedy and improv troupes. But further north, Maine also has a thriving improv ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 137
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Todd Levin, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: writer & comedian Todd Levin, essayist Justin Hocking and musical guest Laura Veirs.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 136
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Mimicking Birds, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include writer and therumpus.net founder Stephen Elliott, Harriet Fasenfest and musical guests Mimicking Birds.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
The Legend of Patsy Cline
From: Jeffrey Letterly
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A surreal encounter with Patsy Cline.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
The Duel-O-Matic
From: Steve Webb
Series: The Gentlemen's Club
Caption: The Gentlemen's Club
An advertisement for the jolly handy "Duel-O-Matic.:

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: :33