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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
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Leg Warmers! Big Bangs! Z Cavariccis! Tales of kids whose childhoods, for better or worse, revolved around fashion. The Mortified Podcast is a prou...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 24:18
Caption: Kaiden, Francisco, Kevin, Jefferson, and Nicholas are fifth graders at Thomson and Two Rivers Elementary Schools in Washington, DC.
These 5th graders love Tom Angleberger's "Origami Yoda" books so much, they formed a book club devoted to folding paper...and writing letters to th...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 20:46
Caption: A doodle by host Carlos Nieto, Credit: Credit KUOW Photo/Jenny Asarnow
Today, RadioActive hosts Isaac Noren and Carlos Nieto bring you stories of when pencil meets paper. Doodles, sketches and drawings of all kinds!

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:18
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Sometimes, the only way to voice our feelings is to break into song.

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
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Sonja Peterson in Minneapolis.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:37
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In The Rock House follows the band Zombie Crash, and explores the learning disable music scene in the UK.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:29
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This week we're feeling the change of the season. Winters can be bitterly cold here in MN, but when Spring comes around so do a wealth of new possi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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by Amy Friedman. For artist Felix de la Concha it's not enough to just paint his subjects, he needs to know and remember them as well. He brought h...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
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by Maarja Merivoo-Parro: Mu Performing Arts latest production sheds light on the Hmong-American experience by zooming in on a few remarkable days i...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:42
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by Amy Friedman: Many of the artists in the Russian Museum of Art's newest exhibit, "Concerning the Spiritual in Russian Art", remember a time when...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:40
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This week on Culture Queue, we explain what exactly a "queue" is. Our show begins with a look at light painting from producer Marcheta Fornoff. New...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Lego Deco by Mitch Skinner. Whether it's an art or just a really cool hobby, Brickmania in Northeast Minneapolis puts together some impressive Lego...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we lead our listeners into the Culture Queue Zone. Our journey begins with a look at real-life horrors present in the Soap Factory's hau...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 30:34
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Lights, Camera, Paint!: Producer Marcheta Fornoff dives into the world of light painting, a process involving flashlights and long lens exposure. ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: What would Jules Verne do? The Steampunk aesthetic combines elements of victorian fashion, sci-fi, and punk DIY., Credit: Photo by SoulStealer.co.uk
Steampunk is quickly moving from a quirky Victorian sci-fi subculture to a major inspiration for mainstream artists like Panic at the Disco and Rus...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
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This piece is a description of the best christmas light setups in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:23
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Just listen to it, it's short

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:07