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It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 25:47
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 49:50
In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 33:50
Bob Henry and Selina Trieff came to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to paint in the 1950s. For six decades, they thrived in love and art. Bob’s work has al...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 08, 2017
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 2
For most of his adult life Peter Wolf Toth has been on a mission to honor the native American tribes of Virginia. Over the decades he has carved ma...
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 26:08
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 20:03
- Purchases: 3
Two of the only human inhabitants of the Everglades live just off Loop Road less than a mile before it links back up with Tamiani Trail. Their comp...
- Added: Dec 26, 2014
- Length: 26:16
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 28:20
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together.
Rol...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 25:30
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
An artist revives the beauty of shortwave radio
- Added: May 03, 2014
- Length: 05:47
Mindless Chanting is a documentary tracing the DIY history of an obscure and unheard band called Catfish Courtesy.
- Added: Jan 26, 2014
- Length: 36:04
Scott Britton has never been to Trinidad, but he really loves calypso.
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 05, 2014
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 2
It's called the Looplore Experiment and it's partially funded through Kickstarter donations. This weekend-long "camp" revolves around arts and craf...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 07:33
Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 2
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 12:52
- Purchases: 1
