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The Artichoke King

From: Emily Gadek
Series: Footnote Podcast

Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...

This Week in Texas Music History: Galavan Ballrom

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...

Saint Death

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features

For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio

Oh, Paperboy

From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land

When Matt O'Meilia was 10 years old, a rock star moved into his neighborhood. And not just any rock star. A hometown boy made good. The rock star...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix

Highway Life

From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land

While researching a book, author Richard Hicks was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. He shares the unique perspective that truckers have ...

Bought by KUOW, KOSU, and Public Radio Remix

Clever Apes: The March of Time

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: Alexander Karczmar, at 93, is an authority on the brain and a student of the self.

How our brains age, and why some people manage to cheat death and stay sharp.

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix

Clever Apes: The Shakedown

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: La Chaire Trepidante: the 19th century vibrating chair invented to relieve Parkinsons's symptoms., Credit: Christopher Goetz

Treating Parkinson's with a vibrating chair; reading the rumblings of the earth; and a hip-hop battle of cosmic proportions.

Bought by Public Radio Remix

The Sound of Colors

From: Ed Herrmann

What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors ...

Bought by KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and Public Radio Remix

Tea Master Jeffrey

From: Catherine Spangler

Caption: Tea, McIntosh says, is a lifestyle.

There is more to making a cup of tea than you think...

Bought by WAMC, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/9/10

From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions

HE GOT A BILL...

Bought by KRCB-FM

Three Card Monte - Keep Your Eye on the Ball

From: Sally Herships

It's one thing to hold someone up and steal their wallet - Another to convince them to give you their money and not press charges. How do con artis...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, EconomyBeat Podcast, and WILL