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Robin Hirsch is the owner of The Cornelia Street Cafe, a venerable Greenwich Village institution that the city has proclaimed to be a "culinary and...
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (who's first names are either Jimmy or Bobby). To start the show - in honor of the Pr...
- Added: Feb 26, 2016
- Length: 02:54:43
Les Claypool never rests. Whether he’s dealing with his most famous band, Primus, leading his Frog Brigade, or jamming with his new friend Sean Le...
Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 4
Beltrami county celebrate its sesquicentennial this year, a fact not lost on the Beltrami County Historical Society. Dan Karalus, Executive Directo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 10:23
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
Every year at Mardi Gras the city and I reflect on what it means to be from New Orleans. First hour and half is New Orleans music and commentary....
- Added: Feb 07, 2016
- Length: 02:52:25
Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
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Featuring the Musician Linda Chorney, Artist Joshua Smith, and Jerry on Jerry read by Jerr...
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 58:07
The term "Indo Rock" was worn by Indonese bands from Netherland during the music's peak from 1958 to 1968. Similar to the US-originated rock and r...
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 02:59:38
The story of Moon Taxi is one of perseverance and belief that what they were doing would no doubt find its way into the collective consciousness of...
Bought by KUCB and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 2
I must have fallen into the "Bobby" and "Billy" section of the music library because almost every musician featured tonight has one of those names....
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 02:55:53
Animals are easy to love - most of them. But it takes a special breed of human to fall for one particular type animal.
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 08:18
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all singing about Shirley and pink "stuff."
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 02:51:31
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Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 58:34
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 39:29
From theater to radio to Hollywood...the ambition of Orson Welles, as Patrick McGilligan tells us in his new book Young Orson, was already old-fash...
- Added: Dec 15, 2015
- Length: 59:57
A show in the shadows of a horrific terror attack on Paris. Recalling the days after Katrina when hearing music from New Orleans reassured us tha...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 02:35:53
In the manic, outrageous and other dimension comedy The Philadelphia by David Ives, even ordering a sandwich is a challenge of epic proportions - l...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 15:04
- Purchases: 3
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Featuring Singer Ed Roman, Author Ruth Nolan, and New York Times bestseller A Walk in the ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 58:16
This week we explore several of the routines and ceremonies that our favorite artists obsessively perform before taking the stage.
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Something happened to create such a fertile ground for Americana music in post WWII era of the 1950-70s of this show's focus. However whatever ser...
- Added: Oct 25, 2015
- Length: 02:49:20
