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I Want a Better Catastrophe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Boyd
The Paris Climate Accord set a benchmark 1.5 degrees centigrade warming limit. We didn’t reach that goal. Even the massive snow fall, wildfires, hu...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reeds-A-Plenty Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Dorsey
This program takes us through the later 1920s to the ‘30s, with the clarinet of Jimmy Dorsey’s creativity to the influence of tenor saxophone of Co...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Louis Hayes, Credit: Janette Beckman
Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes talks about his long and distinguished career as a musician.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 6
Reeds-A-Plenty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon
As jazz evolved over its first decade, the clarinet was the primary wind-instrument. But, when the music reached Chicago, the saxophone, more speci...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bringing a Harlem Renaissance Playwright to the Stage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Timothy Johnson
Director Timothy Johnson talks about bringing the brilliant work of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence to the stage.

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Big Myth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Southern Hospitality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s jazz band
Southern Hospitality: The term conjures up wonderful images. Primary on the list is it’s the birthplace of jazz. The program is devoted to the mus...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Walk the Walk
Policy change policing is critically important. But to fix policing, we need to change the culture. The culture surrounding law enforcement. The va...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson reflects on her first year as Chair of National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson
Chair Maria Rosario Jackson looks back at her first year leading the Arts Endowment and shares her ideas, plans, and initiatives for the year ahead.

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Bix & the Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
Although Bix Beiderbecke’s career spanned less than a decade, his influence on future cornetists lasted generations. What is not surprising is the ...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Drawing Deportation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Nicole Fleetwood discusses "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Art historian, curator, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow, Dr Fleetwood discusses the profound significance of the art created by incarcerated people.

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Red by Red
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Henry Allen
Two popular musicians who added to the legacy of jazz through their colorful musical personalities. Henry “Red” and Loring “Red” Nichols. Vastly di...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Preparing for War
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brad Onishi
The riot at the US Capitol in January 2021 was not a blip or an aberration. In the thinking of Dr. Bradley Onishi and others, it was the logical ou...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Small Labels
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
As the decades of the 1920 began, so did a plethora of brand-new small label recording studios. They, indeed, grabbed the attention of jazz musicia...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Woman's Life is a Human Life
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Foley Guy, A Romance
From: Johanna Beale Keller
Caption: The Foley Guy, A Romance
WINNER of the 2023 Atlanta Fringe Audio Critics' Choice Award, as well as Best Writing, Best Mixing & Most Creative! The judges said "I LOVED THE H...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 19:33
The Pugilist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy McPartland
When Cornetist Jimmy McPartland was growing up in west side Chicago, He was constantly finding he was at odds with the law. He says, if it wasn’t f...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Kevin Wilson's talks about his funny and moving novel Nothing to See Here
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kevin Wilson, Credit: Leigh Anne Crouch
Author of the NEA Big Read title Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of this outrageous (and outrageously fu...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 7
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Quoting in Rhythm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Zutty Singleton
One way to truly enjoy the earliest days of jazz is to hear directly from the musicians themselves. Only they can tell the story as it really was.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Chords part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bunny Berigan
The first glimmer that there was something new in the world of music became apparent in the deep south. It was long before Louis Armstrong and Bix ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas with the Club
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas Wish
Despite being one hundred years old, this is a very similar scene to what we experience today. In her research, author Betty Owens discovered that ...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
End Kids Cancer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Kalman w/daughter Cali
Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Chords part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrian Rollini
In the early 1990s, jazz trumpet Richard Sudhalter decided he needed to correct, what he perceived as a historical error: that the White jazz music...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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