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Caption: Pop-up bookstore Scanners is oepn through November at the Mina Dresden Gallery in San Francisco
The current state of our economy is getting everyone to think more creatively. For business owners, this means finding ways to cut costs, and in Sa...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:22
Caption: Entrepreneur Eri Gentry left her job in finance to build a community laboratory in her garage.
A study released earlier this year showed that the U.S. is on its way to a major shortage of science talent; about 1% of American students score ab...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
Caption: Lateef the Truthspeaker (left) and Lyrics Born (right) perform Sunday, August 14 at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival
Music, as an industry, has found a consistent audience in young people for decades. But what music means to them is changing. Popular songs today o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Tuesday nights aren't exactly the most exciting night of the week. Most bands play over the weekend. Movies open on Friday. But, if you're the type...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:02
Caption: Los Cenzontles, Credit: http://www.themockingbirds.info/
Los Cenzontles is a unique musical group. Based in San Pablo, it's a band that usually performs usually performs and writes rock, latin fusion musi...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:56
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KALW’s Nathanael Johnson lives in San Francisco, near Mission and 30th Street. It’s at the intersection of several different neighborhoods with lot...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on It's Movie Time, Kristin and John travel back to the '60s with Helen Mirren in The Debt and travel to Texas for Seven Days in Utopia.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Photo from lookmind.com (http://lookmind.com/illusions.php?id=1868&cat=3)
Invisibility – it’s the stuff of fantasy and Hollywood movies (we’re looking at you, Harry Potter), and now it’s a reality. Well, kind of. Read th...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Local composer Cheryl Leonard recording the sound of Antarctica in 2009
When we imagine Antarctica, we often think of an empty place: big expanses of ice, almost no other people on the entire continent. It might even se...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Head to the East Bay city of Hayward, and you’ll find a museum with a little bit of class. There, the city’s historical society puts on exhibits ab...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
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Who would have thought that Borders, the corporate bookselling behemoth that had stores in practically every mini mall across America, would now be...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:44
Caption: Paula de Cristofaro treating Matisse’s “Portrait of Sarah Stein” in the SFMOMA conservation lab., Credit: Photo courtesy of SFMOMA
Art conservators work behind the scenes at museums. Though they’re sometimes confused with curators, who acquire works for a collection, conservato...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Two Moments featuring 2011 NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 07:29
  • Purchases: 13
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This week on It's Movie Time, Kristin and John plot against their Horrible Bosses with Jason Bateman and talk to the animals with Kevin James in Zo...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Tsedey Seifu and Faiza Farah founded Afro Urbanites, a social organization that aims to redefine what it means to be Afrocentric
When people from Africa move to the U.S., they’re faced with a question: are they African Americans, or Africans in America? Many tend to call them...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
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His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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Paul Simon and producer Phil Ramone go deep inside the making of Simon's new album "So Beautiful or So What." Download audio for full one-hour spe...

Bought by Prairie Public, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Wyoming Public Radio, and KSUT


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 54:44
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Lynn Harrell, Credit: Christian Steiner
For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, and KUHF


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 4
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On It's Movie Time's 2010 Year in Review, John and Kristin recap the best and the worst of movies in 2010. From the most dismal comedies in the Mo...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 57:00
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Dmae Roberts features an in-depth and lively interview with Northwest Writer Ivan Doig.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
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Steve Yasko interviews Adam Cole, creator of "Good Radiation", a rap homage to NPR! Watch the video for "Good Radiation" here: http://www.youtube....

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
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The name's Corolla. I'm just a two-bit, four door sedan, living with a foreign label in a Minnesota union town.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:25

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 17:21
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Michael Goldberg's thoughts on lawn care.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1