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David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Boston"
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Here’s how to read David Foster Wallace’s thousand-page door stop and masterpiece Infinite Jest: it’s a Boston novel the way Ulysses is a Dublin n...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 1
El Sistema: Music Lessons to Rebuild the World
From: Open Source
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El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implicatio...

Bought by KWMR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 2
Over The Back Fence, March 2014
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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This marks the 20th anniversary of "Over The Back Fence". "Over The Back Fence" is a community variety show that happens the 2nd Friday of every m...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:31:06
  • Purchases: 1
Jeffrey Karoff - Documentary Filmmaker - Karoff Films - The Robin Hood Foundation, the Oscar nominated documentary, Cavedigger
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: Cavedigger w/Jeffrey Karoff, Credit: Karoff Films
Jeffrey Karoff - Documentary Filmmaker - Karoff Films - The Robin Hood Foundation, the Oscar nominated documentary, Cavedigger

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
A conversation with Anthony Braxton
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Anthony Braxton, Credit: Photo by Michael G. Stewart
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 40:46
A conversation with Keith Jarrett
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Keith Jarrett, Credit: Rose Anne Colavito
Pianist Keith Jarrett - letting the music happen.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 34:27
A conversation with director Jeff Orlowski
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jeff Orlowski, Credit: courtesy of Chasing Ice
Jeff Orlowski goes to the Arctic to film James Balog’s documentation of the rapidly disappearing glaciers. We hear all about it.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 30:20
A Conversation with Jen Masengarb from the Chicago Architecture Foundation
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jen Masengarb, Credit: courtesy of the Chicago Architecture Foundation
Jen Masengarb explains Chicago's rich architectural legacy and CAF’s role in bringing it public awareness.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 24:52
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Tope Folarin-Winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tope Folarin, Credit: David Fleming
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
Review of 2014 Oscar Short Film Nominees: Live Action and Animated
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: Helium
Review of 2014 Oscar Short Film Nominees: Live Action and Animated

  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Inuit art premiere guests Tom Chapman & Looty Pijamini join gallery owner Jan Sivertson in Studio A
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dick Swanson & Buck Benson welcomed Inuit stone carver Looty Pijamini; Tom Chapman, president of Upper Canada Native Art; and Sivertson Gall...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2014
  • Length: 20:57
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3 ~ Sound Design
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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With the help of Don Maue, a sound designer and Duquesne University professor, we examine the role of sound in video games.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 09:19
William Fox
From: Brian Bahouth
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Brian Bahouth chats with William Fox, writer and Director of the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno … words and mus...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2014
  • Length: 14:47
The Art of Tribal Style Dancer, Cyndi Cyreigna
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Welcome to Art Beat, and our coverage of Something Tribal This Way Comes from St. Paul MN. This festival offers workshops in American Tribal Belly ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 16:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Live Feed Presents; The Best of Over The Back Fence 2013
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of "The Live Feed" we bring you the best of The 2013 Over The Back Fence Season. Over the Back Fence is a community variety show th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:27:57
  • Purchases: 1
Filmspotting 481 (03/14/14): The Grand Budapest Hotel, Top 5 Wes Anderson Scenes
From: WBEZ
Caption: Ralph Fiennes in 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'; Bill Murray in 'Rushmore'
Wes Anderson takes such care with each frame that it would be easy to choose five favorite moments from any one of his films. But Josh and Michael ...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WRIR, WOUB, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
Reel Discovery: Tim's Vermeer
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin searches for artistic answers with Tim Jenison in Tim's Vermeer.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:00
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 242 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Filmmaker Beth Harrington, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire
Musician and author WESLEY STACE, filmmaker BETH HARRINGTON, and music from ALBATROSS.

Bought by WCPN, WRIR, KUT, KUOW, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 242
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Filmmaker Beth Harrington, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire
Musician and author WESLEY STACE, filmmaker BETH HARRINGTON, and music from ALBATROSS.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KUNV, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Riddles from the Border Regions 3/15/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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NINE WERE FREELY GIVEN ME ....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Venus, Deconstructed
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
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Can one museum exhibit help change the tide of a culture? Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian and women, gender, and sexuality studies, explai...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 16:55
Uncovering Numismatics
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
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Professor William Bubelis explains how numismatics, or the study of ancient coins, can reveal unique information about ancient cultures.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:35
Destination DIY: Figures In Flight Released
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Andre Noel is the manager of Figures In Flight Released., Credit: Natalie Ivis
This episode features a story by producer Chris Remington about a group of ex-cons who were inspired to start their own dance troupe, called Figure...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:53
Eddie Hamilton - Film Editor - Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2, X-Men: First Class, and Jadoo
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: KA2
Eddie Hamilton - Film Editor - Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2, X-Men: First Class, and Jadoo

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Review: HER
From: Daniel Persons
Series: Hour of the Wolf Movie Reviews
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Review of Spike Jonze's HER.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:23

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