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On this episode, we discussed the new book "Dance-Punk," part of a new series of "Genre" books from 33 1/3. We discussed the history of dance-punk ...

  • Added: May 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...

  • Added: May 13, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "Overtone Singing," a comprehensive tome that addresses the physics ...

  • Added: May 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:29

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 04:52
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There’s a sports metaphor I’ve heard used, in basketball mostly, when they say that a player is “in a zone.” Every shot seems to go in; whenever th...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:56
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The life story of a donkey, and his experiences under different human owners, is depicted to expand our ideas of what subjective life is to include...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:34
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A mass incident of abuse by men in a religious community causes the women in that community to gather and talk, so they can decide what to do about...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:27
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The latest magical realist epic from Alejandro G. Iñárritu portrays the inner life of a Mexican filmmaker, and the struggles he must go through for...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:31
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Fritz Lang’s 1931 crime picture remains one of the greatest depictions of social rot ever put on film.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:32
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Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland for this tale of contagious madness between two friends falling out.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:32
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The painful struggles between parents and children are often a subject of drama, and no surprise, given the plentiful examples of this theme in hum...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:34
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The botanical name of our 3 needle per fascicle (bundle) Chihuahuan pine is Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana. Further south into Mexico where the ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 04:35
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I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:18
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Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
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Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical portrait of the artist, a young woman filmmaker in 1980s England exploring grief.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:22
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The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
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It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:19
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Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
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It's been forty-one years since the landmark Roe V. Wade decision legalized abortion in the U.S. But foes have never stopped in their quest to ove...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Created, Written and Produced by Brad Dunn
A 'Quick Sip' brought to you by What's The Juice? - America's Source For Wine Talk Radio. Topics include: Lady Macbeth, George Washington, and low...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 02:01