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Last year, the Kennedy Center staged its first-ever comedy festival, featuring performances by Judd Apatow and Jane Lynch and a roast of James Carville. This weekend, the District of Comedy Festival returns with a series of stand-up shows, podcast tapings and a few oddities. Here are some safe bets, depending on your preferred medium for…

Phoebe Robinson gives great advice, even if she doesn’t know she’s doing it. Before even meeting her, I feel like I’ve learned so much from the comedian, podcast host, and author, and I want to know more. I want to ask her what to say to my workout instructor who casually used the word “thug”…

Radio dramas may seem like a thing of the past, but they’re still a great way to tell stories.Louis JoyeuxINA via Getty Images When you think about radio dramas, you probably recall War of the Worlds or picture a nuclear family hanging out in their living room wearing ’30s fashion. But radio dramas are still…

San Quentin State Prison inmates Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, along with artist Nigel Poor, produce a nuanced podcast about real life behind bars. (Photo: Courtesy Ear Hustle) Sure, the dramatized experiences of characters on Orange is the New Black and Prison Break make for exciting TV shows. However, not all stories about being locked up require Hollywood embellishment. At…

It takes a certain kind of person to risk it all and follow their startup dreams.  A person with a serious safety net, and access to traditional forms of funding, for one.  But dedicating your free time outside your day job is a more accessible way to launch the idea that could eventually become a…

Filibuster came to you late last night (seriously, you should subscribe to the the RSS feed below), and comes to the website now! Jason, Adam, and Ben start by talking about the USMNT, their bad performance, and the play of Brad Guzan. We also talk about the new players that took the field for Nicaragua,…

Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher on Capitol Hill on Aug. 31, 2010. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) “What we clearly see in the focus groups is they don’t regret what they did.” “They” are millennials of color who either didn’t vote or voted third party. And for Cornell Belcher, the president of Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies,…

Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 128, published July 18, 2017. Radiotopia’s Ear Hustle breaks 1.5 million downloads in its first month, qualifying the show…

HelloBeautiful Meet The Creators Of THE NOD, A New Podcast Telling Black Stories Our WayHelloBeautifulTHE NOD is the new podcast to hit your earbuds serving Black realness from a unique perspective. We sat down with the masterminds behind the series, Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings, and picked their brains about content creation for and by…

Podcasts Tanis and The Bright Sessions are also being developed for the small screen under the renewed deal. Dark Horse Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions are sticking together. The comic book company has renewed their first-look deal with the studio on the heels of Umbrella Academy‘s recent series order at Netflix. Under the re-upped pact, the…