Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTattoos, a body art once exclusive to merchant marines, street toughs, and shady characters, now adorn the ankles and shoulders of nearly every demographic group in America. Your grandma, your aunt, your minister, and your tax preparer might well sport one or more tattoos. What does this …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHe co-founded the Bloomington Open Studios Tour in 2011. This year’s tour features six artists in and around town. Paul is a photo remix artist, manipulating digital images to create layered, re-structured works of art. He proudly claims he never attended art school or took an art …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 20.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe withdraws from the world — both in her mind and, occasionally, physically — to write. Arbogast’s first book, Leave the Dogs at Home, was a heart-wrenching, unvarnished glimpse into a woman’s life of love, choices, grief, and rebirth. She has released her second book, a novel …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 18.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFacing an uphill battle in a predominantly red state, veteran community organizer Michelle Higgs is squaring off against incumbent Peggy Mayfield in the November election. Higgs realized she and other Hoosier Democrats would need a lot of help so she put together the Indiana Rural Summit 2024. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWriting can empower people. Poetry, essays, memoirs, fiction — all demand the writer reach down into her soul for honest, unvarnished feelings. Sometimes writing can help people find out who they really are. Rebekah Spivey helps writers — professional and non — open up their hearts, and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMolly Gleeson had written for her high school newspaper but when she reached adulthood, she believed she didn’t have anything to write about anymore. By the time she reached middle age, she realized she had a whole life’s worth of subject matter to write about. She has …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week, Indiana University professor of political science Jeffrey C. Isaac talked about free speech, political activism, and academic freedom on the Bloomington campus. This week, we turn our attention to the 2024 United States presidential election. Isaac doesn’t hold back with his opinions on Donald Trump …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLongtime political science professor Jeffrey C. Isaac joins us at Big Talk once again. Outspoken during the spring pro-Palestinian protests on campus, Isaac defended the rights of students to publicly criticize the waging of the Israel-Hamas War and he stood behind a faculty member who was suspended …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe education director for Constellation Stage & Screen has designed a wide-ranging fall program of acting, musical theater, improv, and filmmaking classes for kindergarteners through adults. Eric Shelley has led the teaching arm of Constellation since it was formed by the merger of the Bloomington Playwrights Project, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 24.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWith rage emerging as a driving force behind political, social, and cultural discourse in the United States, Indiana University associate professor Wright has been attempting to plumb the public’s psyche to find out why. He has concluded anger is now the “central emotion governing contemporary US politics.” …
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