Sly Crooner Episode #8 The Fly

As a writer and performer, Geoffrey Tozer works a hep-highwire from which many have fallen. But Mr. Tozzer stays effortlessly and breathtakingly on the wire mixing a potent martini that evokes Jean…
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The Latvala Files: Hangin' Out in the Vault

"Don't you think it's time you started taking life a little more seriously? Your mother and I understand how much you like this music, it sounds like a bunch of noise to us, but you like it and…
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Walking With My Father

Simple, but not simplistic, this elegant setting for Charlie Rizzo's memories of his father is a remarkably patient and elegant narrative. Uncluttered, impeccably edited and produced, it has that…
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Dear Radio

Breaking up is hard to do. Carolina Wheat's Dear John letter to Frequency Modulation would be funnier if it wasn't so depressingly true; if she didn't nail the relationship some of us have had with…
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Table For Two (Empty Chairs)

Part beat reverie, part Ken Nordine soundscape, Ken Girardey confidently sculpts music, language and wishful thinking to create a contemplation of loss and regret on the road to eternity. Perfect…
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What Would Scarlet Do?

There's a theory about objects retaining energy and bits of personality. It may be true, or it may be something we profoundly wish. Either way, a prom dress can be about so much more than one…
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Sun Tunnels

One of the things really good conceptual art can do is force a debate about what the hell constitutes art in the first place. This visit to the Sun Tunnels will do one of two things: Fill you with a…
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Me and George W (No good deed goes unpunished)

The sort of carefully crafted observational narrative you crave from a classic short story...but you'd reject as too perfect if it was presented as fiction. A superb look back in time that goes a…
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Father Figures- HV Special

A bittersweet father's day sampler paced and produced with polish by Hearing Voices. Fatherhood is a damn treacherous line of work, you'll never really know until it's way too late if you were…
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What's the Word? Shakespearean Queens

There's a conspiracy out there that has spent the better part of a century trying to convince us that Shakespeare is really, really hard to understand; that there is no way into the plays without the…
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Murakami's Well

I remember an old Zen chestnut: "There's the thing and then there's the name for the thing, and that's one thing too many." And that's the problem at the heart of this exploration of Japanese writer…
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HEAT -- The Contenders

"Radio is strange." Deft interviewer and journalist John Hockenberry effortless updates material from his series "Heat" produced way back in the 90's. The effect is that of someone carefully…
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RN Documentary: Whitman - Songs of the Poet

As scrupulous as it is conventional, this two part study of Walt Whitman runs the risk of explaining the poet right out of existence. The saving grace is radio's ability to not just discuss the…
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Louder Than a Bomb 2007

You can almost hear the "beat" torch being passed to a new generation as you listen to the pieces in this series. Each one brims with energy and imagination. There is nothing polite about these…
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Cheesing!

"What did that mean?" Marjorie Van Halteren's essay/performance piece lives comfortably on the continuum between Laurie Anderson and Ken Nordine. Polished rather than slick, smart rather than clever,…
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