Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhen Anna Stamm was a little girl, she watched B-movies on TV with her father. She wondered how and why TV stations picked movies to air. Her curiosity has led her to pursue her doctorate in local broadcast history. Bloomington was home to one of the key …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe second part of our conversation with minister, activist, antiwar protester, and advocate for death row inmates, the Rev. Bill Breeden. He earned national notoriety when he swiped an Odon, Indiana street sign honoring President Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor and Odon native, John Poindexter. Breeden began …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHe went from being a teenaged country preacher to protesting war and ministering to death row prisoners. Now retired, the Rev. Bill Breeden has lived a wild, loving, socially conscious life. He’s spent time in American jails and a foreign dungeon. He’s stolen street signs and lived …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe began to explore the iconic musician, producer, engineer, and anti-star’s Bloomington roots and his sojourns to Los Angeles, New York City, and New Orleans last week. Bingham’s back in town now, having served in a “musical boot camp” while performing at the Orbit Room this spring. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 19.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHe’s back in Bloomington, for the nonce, after sojourns through Los Angeles, New York City, and New Orleans, among other ports of call. The one-time member of the storied Bloomington prog-rock band, Screaming Gypsy Bandits, former principal of the innovative, experimental Bar-B-Q Records label, and a key …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe co-founder of Ledgemule Press, Dave Torneo, has published Cincinnati poet Matt Hart’s latest volume of verse, Falling Fine, under the Pickpocket Books imprint. The book’s release party will feature an imaginative overhead-projector puppet show by artist and educator Johanna Winters, as well as music performed by …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe’s Bloomington’s Trans-dimensional Diva. She lives in the vestibule of a North Walnut Street portal to other realities. And she’ll be hosting the Alternate Dimension Mill, Saturday, April 19, at the Monroe County Public Library auditorium. McGee, a veteran of stage and small screen, has immersed herself …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 24.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe former guest host of Big Talk is wearing a new hat these days. Tying together his love for comedy, sports, and Bloomington, Alex Ashkin has organized a fundraising event to benefit both Middle Way House and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington. He has reeled …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA Bloomington tradition now in its fourth year, the Bloomington Indiana International Film Festival will draw cinephiles to Redbud Books and The Bishop Bar Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5. Matt Rice, who wrangles the filmmakers and emcees panel discussions between showings, joins Big Talk this week. Founded …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week’s Big Talk is a sheer gabfest with retired Indiana University professor and internationally recognized expert on movies, James Naremore. He’s written countless books on cinema and has appeared on numerous Criterion Collection editions, analyzing and commenting on such classics as “Citizen Kane” and “The Magnificent …
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