Cover to Cover – October 26, 2021
A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, Jovelyn Richards and Jennifer Stone
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Join Sarah Holmes for another segment in our series, Honoring our Elders. In this episode, Sarah interviews Doña Enriqueta Contreras Contreras, curandera, midwife and teacher. Doña Queta resides in Oaxaca, Mexico. They are joined by Elisa Marina Alvarado graciously translating. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
William Morris’s designs are still admired and revered, but his radical politics and utopian inclinations are less well known. Michael Robertson discusses the nineteenth-century Englishman’s insistence on craftsmanship, his critiques of industrialism, his turn toward socialism, and his utopian novel News From Nowhere. (Encore presentation.) Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy Princeton University Press, … Continued
Talkies – October 26, 2021
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: Beth Shapiro is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where her work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA. She is the author of How to Clone a Mammoth, which won the AAAS science writing award, and her latest, Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years … Continued
Democracy Now – October 26, 2021
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
On today’s show: 0:08 – Ari Berman (@AriBerman), senior reporter for Mother Jones and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America joins us to discuss the Freedom to Vote Act which was blocked by Senate Republicans. 0:34 – Sam Brodey (@sambrodey), congressional reporter for the Daily Beast joins … Continued
Democracy Now – October 26, 2021
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Letters & Politics – October 26, 2021
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
A Box of Toys #79 More Needle-drop
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Some more needledrop! This stack of vinyl is mostly new EDM, but there are also some really quirky post-punk/industrial reissues at play. Music from the XPQ? Mysterious DJ contingent out of Berlin, Peder Mannerfelt, Bogdan Razynski, Celia Hollander, Squarepusher and more…