Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 24.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHe has designed a public scratching post made of pumice and a time capsule encased in 10 pounds of beeswax. Artist and industrial designer Maxwell Fertik came from heavily forested New England and, there, learned to appreciate and love natural materials. He specializes in transforming material from …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA hot August week 57 years ago. Thousands of protesters took to the street during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. They faced off against thousands of Chicago police officers and Illinois National Guardsmen. Blood was drawn as the whole world watched. Aaron Cohen, a 15-year-old …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe five scariest words in Bloomington: The students are coming back! Author, artist, and PR maven Tristra Newyear joins us on Big Talk to discuss the coming 2025-26 school year at Indiana University. We ponder a complaint seemingly common to every lecturer and professor — students can’t …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe turn the tables this week as author, historian, artist, and PR maven Tristra Newyear interviews Big Talk producer and host Michael Glab. They discuss the July 10th, 2025 benefit celebration for WFHB at The Bluebird. It’s been 50 years since Mark Hood and Jeffrey Morris staged …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Busman’s Holiday boys, Lewis & Addison Rogers, have released a new album, Table Talk, this past June. Now in their 20th year performing together, the Busman’s boys will stage a gala album release show in September with special guest bestselling poet and author Ross Gay. The …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe realized how inadequate her formal sex education had been when she took a Biology & Culture of Women’s Bodies course at Indiana University. Indiana schools prioritize abstinence over information when it comes to school sex education classes. Christine Brackenhoff, a nurse formerly with the Monroe County …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe pick up our conversation with Dave Askins, citizen-journalist and the outsider on the inside, who has resurrected his B Square Bulletin. He hopes to create a 21st century online daily local newspaper employing reporters and photographers covering a wide range of beats. He aims to establish …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHe thought he’d had enough back in December 2024, so Dave Askins quit publishing his daily B Square Bulletin. After two months, he was back on the beat with an idea for a bigger, better online local news publication. Now publishing two or three times a week, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor decades now, public libraries have been more — much more — than places where you can only borrow books. Libraries’ collections now include items from baking dishes to pickleball sets and even to seeds for your garden. The Monroe County Public Library’s Library of Things (its …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIt was a silly film but Ian Mair was inspired by it. The Linton, Indian native saw “Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein” when he was a third grader. He’s been making movies ever since. Mair and his school chum James Stevenson went on to found Moonlight Films, …
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