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Seeking Shelter: Building Housing and Community for LGBTQ Elders
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors are much more likely than their straight counterparts to be alone and isolated as they age. Housing ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Interstellar Clouds: Searching for chemistry between the stars
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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Seeking out clues to the origins of chemistry - and life - in outer space.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
The Beat : Dallas Crow - "The Aesthetics of Gravity"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Out of the Blocks - 3300 Greenmount
From: Aaron Henkin
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One hour. One city block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 49:30
The Beat : Gail Rixen - "Shell River"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
The Beat : Charmaine Donovan - "Bad Boy's Blue Shoes Shuffle"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
The Beat : John Dallas - "As I Was Trying to Say"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
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Jon Dallas is a poet living in Chisholm, Minnesota. Jon's poetry has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Green Mountain Review, Antigonish Review, ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
The Beat : Yaya Fredrickson - "Spawn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Yahya Fredrickson got his undergraduate degree from Moorehead State University, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, and his...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Recycling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "Limoncello"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:50
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
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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...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
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Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
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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
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
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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
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
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Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
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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
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Soda Fountain Memories
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
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Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
Playing with Knives: Portrait of a Young Violin Maker in Manhattan
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Caption: Giancarlo Arcieri., Credit: Renan Dario Arango.
This short audio doc about Giancarlo Arcieri, 35, a young violin maker based in Midtown Manhattan, was produced for WorkingNow.org.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Sound bites about the situation of Native Americans
From: Octavian Coman
Caption: Sidney Hill, leader (Tadodaho) of Onondaga nation, Credit: Octavian Coman
Speeches at a Washington DC conference about Native Americans can exude optimism and many promises. But from time to time words used in a hurry p...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:53
Episode #04: Thankful for Sound
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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In honor of Thanksgiving, Craig, George, and a number of their guests share why they are thankful for sounds.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Moneymatters1000- Special Thanksgiving Day Newscast
From: Marc Cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Commentary- The Economy, the markets and our fiscal policy.
Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
A heart felt and warm newscast from KVMR top show. Covers the spirit of giving and will uplift all those that hear it.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Latitude News Podcast #3 - Black in China
From: Latitude News
Caption: Jo Bai and her fellow English teachers in Yuyao, China.
Jo is African American. Jo lives in Yuyao, China. Jo gets a lot of attention.

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 13:14
  • Purchases: 1
Three Springs Farm
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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Emily Oakley brought Mike Appel to her native Oklahoma to start Three Springs Farm, an organic vegetable farm, in Oaks, Oklahoma. The two met in an...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 2
Sister Helen Prejean Passes Through
From: This Land Press
Series: Just Passing Through
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Sister Helen Prejean, of "Dead Man Walking" fame, discusses her spiritual awakening and the problems she has with how wealthier people look down on...

Bought by Interfaith Voices, Public Radio Remix, and WAMC


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 3