He listened to the Drive-By Truckers on his headphones as he walked, daily, to the local coffeehouse in Birmingham, England. The band’s songs and lyrics made him think of his own hometown in the American South. So Stephen Deusner decided to write a book about the alternative Southern rock band. The book, Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with …
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Welcome to the October edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. In today’s podcast, host Jim Allison speaks with Simone Smith, the winning contestant in the League of Women Voters Brown County’s essay contest on redistricting, and Shari Frank, the president of the League of Women …
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Alex chatted with Jeremy Gotwals two weeks ago on Big Talk. Their conversation ranged far and wide and went way over our 28-minute program length, so today we present Part 2 of that tête à tête. Gotwals grew up in Bloomington and made a name for himself as a performer, creator, and idea person. He moved to Cincinnati where he …
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Welcome to the 48th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. In this episode we have a conversation with Asian Hoosiers, Elaine Hilber, the first AAPI woman to win a seat on the City Council of Columbus, and …
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Today’s hosts are Clarence Boone and Vernon Williams. Vernon Williams is also director of ARTI, the Africana Repertory Theatre of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and a Communication and Community Strategist at IUPUI. Each year he and ARTI produces ONYXFEST, Indy’s first and only theater festival dedicated to the stories of Black playwrights. Tonight, he is joined by those …
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Today’s broadcast is a replay that originally aired on September 16, 2019. Hosts William Hosea and Roberta Radovich spoke with three leaders in Monroe County’s opioid addiction recovery community to discuss the ravages of the opioid epidemic hitting Indiana and 2019’s South Central Opioid Summit (September 24, 2019, 7:30AM to 6:00PM). Our guests were: Greg May – Administrative Director at …
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He and his wife Barbara started Harmony School in a vacant, dilapidated house on Grant Street in 1974. The couple hoped to recreate for students the strong familial and community ties that Roc Bonchek recalled from his youth in Cleveland. Harmony now serves as a model for similar independent schools around the nation. Serving pre-schoolers through high schoolers, Harmony approaches …
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En el primer segmento escuchamos de nuestras locutoras, Minerva Sosa y Luz Lopez, mientras participaban y entrevistaban a miembros de la comunidad que fueron a la Fiesta del Otoño2021. Nos dan un resumen de todo lo que se llevó acabo e invitan a que usted participe con nuestra comunidad! La segunda parte escuchamos de La Plaza una organización basada en …
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When he was a teenager, Bloomingtonians might have happened upon him at any time of the day or night walking down the street and bursting into song. Jeremy Gotwals never stopped singing even after he grew up, moved to Cincinnati, and started his own publishing and marketing companies. A person of unlimited energy and immeasurable dreams, Gotwals taught himself how to …
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Welcome to our 47th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB, Our hosts are Melanie Castillo-Cullather and Andrew Pace and our sound engineer is Michael Sears. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. In this episode we introduce the brand new season of …
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