For the first time this year, The Texas Tribune Festival featured a full podcast track. Broadcasting from the Texas Union Theater at the University of Texas at Austin, hosts and their guests tackled issues ranging from Confederate statues to criminal justice, all in front of a live studio audience. Here are the top moments from…
Read MoreIt’s the cream of the crop. Only 5 per cent of the coffee grown around the world is considered specialty grade and can be used to make specialty coffee. Rocky Veneziano and Craig Dickson are co-owners of Veneziano Coffee. Photo: Joe Armao, Fairfax Media. Focusing on the top end of the coffee market has allowed Veneziano Coffee to…
Read MoreThere’s this scene in the Mel Brooks-directed movie Blazing Saddles in which it’s revealed the storyline of people in 19th century western town bombarded with attacks is actually taking place on a Hollywood movie set. The cowboys fighting into the movie set of a black-tie musical, with one of the cowboys bellowing, “P— on you,…
Read Morehttp://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Rethinking-a-Podcast-Top-to-Bottom.mp3DownloadListen to “Rethinking A Podcast Top To Bottom” Let me start by saying this: I have great admiration for Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick. They decided to put their podcast under a microscope. Why? To re-think the show top to bottom. That’s risky. It’s no easy thing to let someone pick your work apart in…
Read More
It seemed like the controversy involving NFL players kneeling during the national anthem had died down a bit — that is until President Trump stirred up a hornet’s nest Friday night during a campaign trip to Alabama. Trump unleashed a tirade of strong comments against NFL players who don’t stand during the playing of “The…
Read More“The cool thing about radio is it’s like an island of lost toys,” Tobin Low, the co-host of WNYC’s podcast Nancy, told the audience gathered at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Indeed, as podcasting has taken off in the past few years, it’s assembled a group of personalities from quite disparate backgrounds. Low, for his part,…
Read MoreThe new adaptation of Stephen King‘s classic novel It has quickly become one of the most successful horror movies of all time. But why has it fared so much better than other recent King adaptations like The Dark Tower and The Mist? Horror author Grady Hendrix says one reason might be that it focuses on…
Read MoreAllston, Massachusetts: August 7 – August 13, 2017 The PRX Podcast Garage is hosting a week-long Transom Traveling Workshop in audio storytelling. Ten beginning-level students will get seven days of intensive training. Apply Class and Cost The fee for the week is $1,806 and includes: Training by Rob Rosenthal, lead instructor for the Transom Story Workshop,…
Read MoreWe finally have a D.C. United game about which to talk, but it didn’t end up going the way any of us wanted. Ben, Adam, and Jason talk D.C. United’s game against Orlando City SC (after diverting into Old Man Ben’s Music Corner) and we start off by talking about Sean Franklin in particular and…
Read MoreNew Statesman Dissect, the insightful music podcast looking forensically at Kanye WestNew StatesmanThe podcast’s host, Cole Cuchna, a musician from California who makes his living as a marketing director for a coffee company, goes on to explain how the near-universal public condemnation of West in the wake of the incident caused the rapper to ……
Read More