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Caption: The Port of Sète, South of France
Tenderness, sarcasm, heartache and longing. All these emotions are present in the French language songs we'll introduce in English in this episode...

Bought by KUT and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2012
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sam Fell and Chris Butler, San Francisco, CA 7/27/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Co-Directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell talk using fantasy to enhance reality, the perfection of the imperfect, and why slugs lend themselves so rea...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 20:39
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Filmmaker Alison Klayman talks freedom of expression, universal struggles, and the limits of subtitles.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2012
  • Length: 18:25
Caption: Back stage with the Brazen Belles
This piece was created for WCAI's Creative Life Series. Producer Sara Robberson takes us to the world of sequence and bras, humor and strip tease –...

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


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Image by Tom Killion
A profile of Bay Area artist Tom Killion. This story is set to the music of Bay Area shakuhachi player Masayuki Koga, who runs the Japanese Music I...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 12:59
Caption: Suzanne Leahy in her workshop in Orleans.
Despite being a woman in what's traditionally considered a man’s field, Suzanne Leahy has worked her way to becoming a master wooden boat builder -...

Bought by WABE and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was instrumental in shifting the Hammond organ into the spotlight in the jazz genre and his many Blue Note albums of the 50s and 60s, i...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KSRQ, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 5
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Tish Jones is the Community Engagement Director for the St Paul Almanac, and Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks. She began performing at age 14, an...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:47
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A short review of the apocalyptic drama, starring Willem Dafoe and directed by Abel Ferrara.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
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In 2008, double bassist and founder of the Musical Art Quintet, Sascha Jacobsen regularly attended the Sunday night chamber music jams at Cafe Revo...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 1
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For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:57
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A Review of Director Jeff Nichols' Topical, Enigmatic Drama

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Naked Eye
Max's director of photography credits include: Boss'n Up (with Snoop Dogg), and Fist of the Warrior. Max's more recent work includes: the Chinese ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Halfdan E
Halfdan recently worked on score for the TV-series Borgen and Hans Petter Moland's stylistic black comedy, A Somewhat Gentle Man, about a man let o...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Wim Wenders, San Francisco, CA 12/19/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Wim Wenders talks angels, memories, and the wonders of technology.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 19:16
Caption: “Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club” by Kathy Sloane is published by Indiana University Press.
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling a...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
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THE GREATEST RIDDLE OF ALL TIME ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Local painter Brett Amory’s series “Waiting” is inspired by the Bay Area’s commuters.
For many of us, the time we spend riding BART or Muni can be one of the least inspiring parts of the day. It’s a time out of time, spent mostly wai...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tim Lynn, artist, Credit: Cheryl Bowlan
Paralyzed from the shoulders down and colorblind, Tim Lynn managed to become a talented painter whose work has hung in several San Francisco Bay Ar...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 11:14
Caption: “The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy” are on display at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
For everyone alive, there is one great equalizer, one experience that doesn’t discriminate based on race, class, religion, or nationality. We all, ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
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For many people, nudity brings up strong feelings: it makes them uncomfortable, freaks them out. Whether it is about sexuality or simply decency is...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Max Good & Nate Wollman, SF CA, 8/1/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Max Good and Nate Wollman talk passion, law-breaking, and late-night stake-outs in the world of graffiti artists and the buffers who hate them.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 19:10
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A labyrinth is a circular path that leads to a center. Walking a labyrinth is an ancient ritual that pre-dates religion. Eunice Schroeder found a n...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Oakland's Creative Growth Art Center provides a space for adults with developmental disabilities to express themselves
Art can be extraordinary. It can convey beauty ... imagination ... and wonder. For some artists, it can literally communicate what their words can...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
Caption: Sugarcane Harvester, Credit: Zwelethu Mthethwa, photographer
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:05