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Caption: Basswood Shoes (digital painting), Credit: Donald Whalen
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 25:31
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack presents Part 2 of the Untold Sto...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:58
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For those of a certain age, the start of summer isn't about going to the beach because a life's worth of hamburgers means never again wearing a bat...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 20:24
Caption: Robin Washington, Credit: Julia Cheng
Robin Washington is African American and Jewish and has family members all over the world. Some are Jewish, some are other religions but many celeb...

Bought by KZYX, KWMR, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Boring!, Credit: Quinn Dombrowski
Like cigarettes or leaded petrol, it seems boredom is gradually being phased out. The mobile phones we carry everywhere allow for an infinite varie...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1
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We enjoy many rights and privileges as citizens of a free and democratic society, and we we're asked to do is vote. Easy, right?

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: A sample menu, Credit: Sandip Roy
In a world where consumer choice is deified, multi-cuisine’s stock keeps going up, no matter its quality.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds the city of St. Cloud inund...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Realgoodwords contributing writer Sasquatch shares his thoughts on Hollywoods search to locate him.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
Caption: Paul and Laura on the day of their wedding., Credit: Emma Miller
On the day of their wedding, Paul Hammond and Laura Jackman reflect on their relationship — and make a commitment to each other.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
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Every week, Cracker Barrel provides 4 million Americans with a studied version of down-home Southern food and hospitality. The dumplins and the chi...

Bought by WJCT and WABE


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 2
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While strongly rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk music, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades produces a sound that draws on the vaults of music collect...

Bought by KMSU, WTIP, KMXT, WRNC-LP, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Cocoa Farmers
Philip Armand ruins a cup of hot cocoa and realizes his mad, sweaty, sloppy rushing is no longer working.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: Einstein's Mistakes, Credit: Cynthia Bogart
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:54
Caption: Freedom Fighter
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
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After more than 20 albums (including Live from the Big Top) and more than three decades of performing, this co-founder of the influential indie roo...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, WTIP, WRNC-LP, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:21
  • Purchases: 10
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Academy Award and GRAMMY winning artist, Melissa Etheridge, will take the stage to perform songs from her new album, This is M.E., as well as some ...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, WTIP, WRNC-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 10
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The 2016 US election isn't going away anytime soon, so let's seek refuge in etymology. Consider the linguistically appropriate age of a senator, an...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 36:05
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The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse – three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound. Starti...

Bought by KSTK, KFCF FM, KMXT, KALH, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 12
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The Blue Canvas Orchestra and special guests open up the show in the first half followed by Jamaican and Australian musical group Nattali Rize & Notis

Bought by KSRQ, KMXT, KALH, KSJE, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 12
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With a Cuban-American lead singer, garage band ferocity, an intense live show and a deep love of both romance and pure country laced with polyrhyth...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, KPIP-LP, WPCA-LP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 11
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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
Caption: Maurice Sendak's self-portrait with Mickey Mouse, Credit: Maurice Sendak
Children's author Maurice Sendak was a big collector of Disney paraphenalia

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: :59
Caption: Allen Ginsberg reading poetry, Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :59