PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Caption: Tom is ready to greet customers with a joke and a smile at Tom's Popcorn Shop, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
There’s a little popcorn shop in the Nokomis neighborhood of south Minneapolis where you can get popcorn, banter, and half off double the normal pr...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 07:10
Caption: Chill Beefs
Kate complains about her sister and other people who are not prepared to do the one thing they have to do when they get to the head of a line.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:29
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Though Sonoran Desert millipedes are nocturnal, this is the time of year when you see them out and about on muggy overcast days.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
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An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: :58
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A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Jenny Bovey at her store in Chatham, MA, Credit: Kara Janeczko
Jenny Bovey's fish don't stink. She's one of the few full time practitioners of a 2,000-year-old Japanese art form called "Gyotaku." She and her h...

Bought by WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 4
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I don't suppose it would surprise anyone to find out the Cultural Curmudgeon is an insomniac. When a person takes on the troubles of the world, the...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2014
  • Length: 03:54
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The Big Ending That Never Was...Yet

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
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The Culture War Fetal Position

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 05:47

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Taking a first job at an inner city non-profit can be horrifying. But there's a lot of perks too ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 14, 2009
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Another adventure in the life of our hairnet lady, who is this week trapped at Publix between surly lobsters and manly beers.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:03
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Visitors to Jane Austen's museum are scattering cremains. Administrators there disapprove. So does Ian.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:05
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A short rant about the nature of advertising

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
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You're locked in your bathroom. Who will save you?

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT, KUOW, and WILL


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 5
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Christmas Shoppers Alert: Beware of those popular personal audio players that are turning people into near-zombies living in their own electronica...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 02:46
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The World's Tackiest Catalog is getting too mainstream.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
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David Greenberger's monologue introduces his work with the Duplex Planet, interviews with the elderly that began at a Boston nursing home. Here Gre...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:15