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The Podcast Garage celebrates a year – The Boston Globe

PRX, the Cambridge-based nonprofit radio distributor, celebrated the one-year anniversary of its Podcast Garage in Allston on Wednesday night. The guest list for the festivities included talent from “Greater Boston” and local podcasters with “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text,” and “Shakesplaining.” The party coincided with Aeronaut Neighborhood Nights, which meant there was also beer,…

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A global obsession with murder rockets Kiwi podcast Black Hands up the charts

Last updated 16:59, July 27 2017 IAIN McGREGOR/STUFF Black Hands, a 10-part podcast series examining the complex and controversial Bain family murders by award-winning Stuff journalist Martin van Beynen is launching on July 24. Murder is a fascinating topic. Even if we won’t admit to our gruesome fascination, our listening habits can prove it. The story…

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Stretch & Bobbito On Race, Hip-Hop, And Belonging

Hip Hop deejays Stretch Armstrong (right) aka Adrian Bartos and Bobbito (left) aka Robert Garcia became legends on The Stretch Armstrong Show during the 1990s. Back then, they were hip hop tastemakers on college station WKCR in New York City. Now they’re back together hosting “What’s Good? With Stretch and Bobbito,” an NPR podcast. Nickolai…

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Bridging the divide over Reese

By Jay Black It’s no secret that this country is divided over a lot of things.  I don’t really “watch” the news, but my gym runs MSNBC and FOX on mute right next to each other and boy, do those people seem upset about stuff! Of all the divisive issues our country faces, it’s obvious…

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The (Black) Bachelorette Recap: What Went Down In Episodes 7–9

Rachel LindsayPhoto illustration by Slate. Photos by ABC/Rodrigo Varela and Thinkstock. On this episode of Represent, Slate producer Veralyn Williams and Robin M. Boylorn, associate professor at the University of Alabama and member of the Crunk Feminist Collective, recap episodes 7–9 of The Bachelorette. Read More.

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A new newsletter helps listeners discover podcasts produced in flyover country

Kelly Moffitt lives in St. Louis, where she works as an online producer at St. Louis Public Radio. Until recently, however, the podcasts she listened to were very much a bicoastal affair. “One day, I looked down at my phone and realized all of my regular-listening podcasts were from New York or Los Angeles,” she…

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Nonprofit transforms vacant auto-repair garage into an incubator for podcasts

Photo from PRX. Reverend Jeffrey Brown is used to the pulpit. But these days, he’s trading it for a microphone in a cozy recording studio in Allston, Massachusetts. For the last few months, the Boston-based minister has been producing his own podcast, The Courage to Listen. “When you’re preaching, you have an audience of people,”…

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Entering the Brave New World of Podcasting

“Welcome to Night Vale” is a twice-monthly podcast about the fictional American desert town of Night Vale and the very, very weird things that happen there. Welcome to Night Vale” host Cecil Baldwin and members of Disparition’s backing band, during a live show. Presented as a series of Night Vale Community…

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Comic Jessica Williams On

Jessica Williams plays a struggling playwright who is trying to get over an ex-boyfriend in The Incredible Jessica James. Netflix hide caption toggle caption Netflix Jessica Williams plays a struggling playwright who is trying to get over an ex-boyfriend in The Incredible Jessica James. Netflix Many comics struggle for years before making it big, but…

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A new newsletter helps listeners discover podcasts produced in flyover country

Kelly Moffitt lives in St. Louis, where she works as an online producer at St. Louis Public Radio. Until recently, however, the podcasts she listened to were very much a bicoastal affair. “One day, I looked down at my phone and realized all of my regular-listening podcasts were from New York or Los Angeles,” she…

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