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Charlottesville is gearing up for the fourth annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. Kelley Libby repor...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
These days, local craft beer is all the rage, and new taprooms are popping up all over the Twin Cities. But a look into the past reveals there's no...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 03:54
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:05
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
No one wants to go to prison, but when the St. Cloud Correctional Facility opened its doors to the press last year during its 125th anniversary, KF...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 03:12
The golden dome of St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church has long been a part of the south Minneapolis skyline. KFAI producer Britt Aamodt visits the ch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:17
The Minnesota state flag has a history that dates back more than 120 years. Throughout that time, the flag has received both praise and criticism f...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 03:28
Bowling as a competitive sport and family pastime peaked decades ago. The game still exists, but with fewer participants. KFAI producer Bill Lindek...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:01
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:15
James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...
Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 2
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
Coverage of the 2015 Annual Democratic National Committee Meeting with keynote speaker, President Barack Obama
- Added: Feb 22, 2015
- Length: 08:45
For centuries, religion has sparked the design of some of the world’s most beautiful buildings. But what is that process? What built elements make ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:53
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 2
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:08
San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:01
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
