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Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 13:57
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
A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
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
I don’t know any poultry fanciers that don’t have a guinea fowl story or two or three. Chickens are where it usually starts as they are the gateway...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Desert Rosemallow is the official common name I think, though I see it called Coulter’s Hibiscus as well.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:34
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
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
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 05:14
Writer Marc Estrin shares his pearls of wisdom from school. There were only three.
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 04:22
What does it mean to love an object? And does that love...wear off?
- Added: Feb 15, 2015
- Length: 15:20
A short story about kids and piano practice and parental rage.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
World Cup fever has infected the entire world... including Kolkata, India!
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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
The Times of India newspaper called this Indian election a "Dance of Democracy." But for Sandip Roy it's more of a 'Disco' Dance of Democracy.
- Added: Apr 30, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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
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
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 06:32
The Big Ending That Never Was...Yet
Bought by KUT
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
From: STephen ASma
Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai
- Added: Jun 24, 2012
- Length: 04:30
Opening Remarks at the Metaphor Debate
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 07:04
- Added: Jan 13, 2012
- Length: 05:47
American Idol Architect
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 08:44
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1