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Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
Caption: Some of Doris Kelly's handmade cards.
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 21:29
Caption: Mike O'Neill & Fruitjack, Credit: Stephanie Clattenburg
We'll find out why people love to capture pets in photos, even though they don't behave for the camera.

Bought by North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 3
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After 20 years of hunting sea glass, Bill and Helen Carney have collected and cataloged 200,000 pieces. But their obsession takes on new meaning as...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:08
  • Purchases: 5
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It's called the Looplore Experiment and it's partially funded through Kickstarter donations. This weekend-long "camp" revolves around arts and craf...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Buck Dietz poses at an afternoon life drawing session at the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA. , Credit: Andrew Norton
Buck Dietz is a figure model. That means he has to stand naked and completely still for long sessions while artists sketch him. But for Buck, it's ...

Bought by HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 7
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Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...

Bought by WMPG and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Fritz Grobe and Stephen Volt perform together as Eepybird. You more likely know them as the Coke and Mentos Guys. You know, the ones on YouTube wh...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
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The "cutting room floor" yields a musical montage.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2005
  • Length: 01:30
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A documentary about the Ox-Bow Summer School of Art, located near Saugatuck, Michigan.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 19:00