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Host Lede for Steve Moore
Steve Moore had hit his stride as a comedian back in the late 1980s. He was working all over Hollywood as a warm up comic...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 59:53
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...
Bought by KFAI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 29:42
- Purchases: 1
Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:59
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 05:38
For my sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience. And recently she tried to give them up.
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 03:00
Diane... is an audio documentary that explores the world of Twin Peaks-fandom.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 14:58
Producer Taylor Tower spoke with Andy Sturdevant, creative director and host of the Minneapolis-based live arts show, Salon Saloon. Featuring clips...
- Added: Apr 06, 2013
- Length: 16:16
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 06:41
With jobs, chores, and family obligations, working mothers can lose themselves to their many commitments. A group of moms in Maine have a unique so...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 04:48
The amazing story of the world's first viral video, and how it launched a multi-million dollar media empire.
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 17:43
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
Angel Quinonez first became interested in tattoos growing up next to a motorcycle club. He got his first tattoo when he was 17 and starting tattooi...
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 05:45
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 06:03
Judo olympians train in humble surroundings at Spartak Sport Club in Rego Park, Queens.
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:34
Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: :48
- Purchases: 1
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old.
Ortiz started cooki...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 1
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 1
Susan Wasson was trapped in 9 to 5 jobs for decades. But after retiring, she transformed herself through a new career: making dolls out of trash.
Bought by KUT, WCAI / WNAN, and WAMC
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 04:29
Janet Messineo is a taxidermist on Martha's Vineyard. But you won't find any deer heads or bears in her workshop--just lots and lots of fish.
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
