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20:15 I half laughed, half cringed when I saw this recent Time Out Chicago cover story about lingerie football. It wasn’t that long after I had finished talking to several players from the Chicago Force about how they wish ESPN would drop their coverage of this fake, sexist “sport” in favor of actual women’s football. [...]
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20 min Some people believe that money can break up any relationship. If it didn’t exactly break up Jason and John, band buddies who genuinely liked each other, it sure as hell drove a wedge between them. A story about what you owe your friends, and what they owe you. Part of Vocalo.org‘s feature IOU: [...]
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Three Proposals
14:47 Damali Ayo is an incredible artist, an incredible talker, and frankly, an incredible person. I’ve never met anyone with her particular combination of energy, humor, insight and charisma. Also, she has, how you say, balls. (Co-Jones, as my friend Luis would say.) She’s the kind of person I’m frankly a little intimidated by because [...]
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My First Taste of Freedom
10:56 Kate moves to Chicago from Michigan City, Indiana at age 18 and suddenly finds herself pregnant. Things go from bad to worse when she goes into labor four-and-a-half months early and gives birth in an unexpected place. The story comes from Kate Ainsworth’s Facebook List “25 Random Things About Me Which You May or [...]
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Inside Out: Sleep
Originally produced for BSR circa 2003. Full list of Inside Out episodes here. Normal sleep is not what this episode is about. Instead we bring you stories gasping for breath, visions in the night, the town that couldn’t sleep, and why 8 hours and 24 minutes is probably a good idea. Hosted by Adeline Goss. [...]
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Inside Out
Real stories from Rhode Island and beyond. “Real stories are hidden in the midst of every day life. Inside Out uncovers them.” With that tag-line, Inside Out was BSR’s flagship radio documentary program that ran from 2000-2004 and showcased some of the finest student made work around. The program was created by Paul McCarthy and [...]
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No Soap Radio
A half-hour experiment in audio collage. No Soap Radio was a weekly radio program broadcast on BSR in the spring of 2004. A collaboration between Robin Amer and Adeline Goss, the program was designed to showcase experimental and non-narrative sound art and radio pieces. The seven episodes featured work by both Robin and Addie but [...]
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Listening to Chinatown
This piece is a work in progress. I’m currently remixing it and rewriting the narration. Check back soon for updated audio. When my friend Heather moved to Boston a few years ago she lived in an old five-story brick warehouse overlooking the Big Dig in Chinatown. On the floor below were the offices of the [...]
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Eugene’s Gary
A portrait of one Gary neighborhood through the eyes of one resident. Part 1, 7:50 Part 2, 5:05 Part 3, 6:02 Eugene’s Gary is a portrait of one Gary, Indiana neighborhood through the eyes of Eugene Pawlak. Pawlak, who fixes up houses and is a life-long Gary resident, is the kind of guy you want [...]
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Tags: accident, audio, bicycles, children, documentary, Gary, Indiana, neighborhood, radio, U.S. Steel
Ghosts of Gary
The story of one abandoned movie theater is the story of this very post-industrial city. People haunt places, and places haunt people. 19:14 Ghosts of Gary is an exploration of Gary, Indiana’s semi-abandoned downtown and historic past. Dorothy, a non-Indiana native, stumbles into Gary on a road trip and sees the remnants of its once [...]
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Tags: abandoned, audio, documentary, Donald Trump, Gary, Indiana, radio, theater, urban exploration
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