Le Show is a weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business, leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry Shearer – “The Simpsons” voice actor (Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders and several others), author (“Man Bites Town,” “Not Enough Indians”), documentarian (“The Big Uneasy”) and mockumentary star (“This is Spinal Tap,” …
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Welcome to the 200th episode of Kite Line. This week, we revisit the important intersection of incarceration and higher education. Barriers to higher education are a key way the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated are trapped by the system in a cycle of unemployment, low-wage work, and recidivism. We are proud to again host an interview conducted by Anastazia Schmid, …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Friday, May 22nd, 2020. In today’s show, WFHB Correspondents Jasmine White and Braydyn Lents break down racist comments from Indiana lawmaker, Jim Lucas. Also, WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner covers a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service for approving the Houston South Forest Restoration and Management project. Your Local Headlines: Bloomington City Council discussed …
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During the spring semester, college students remained physically isolated from friends, classmates and professors. However, one student at Indiana University saw an opportunity to connect others in a time of social isolation. Evan Catron is a student at Indiana University who started a Google form to match people with similar interests who are stuck at home longing for a social …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, May 20, 2020. In today’s program, our weekly consumer watchdog segment, Better Beware Hosted by Richard Fish. Also, WFHB News Director Kade Young talks to the founder of Quarantine Buddies – a Google form started by an IU student to connect those in isolation. But first, your local headlines. The Bloomington Redevelopment …
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In the United States of the 1950s there was a struggle over the very idea of what it would mean to be an American. After World War II, an American could ride high on military power and new technologies. But the Cold War and Nuclear Anxiety undermined the very real economic prosperity being experienced by the growing numbers of the …
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1. Onipa – We No Be Machine 2. X – Alphabetland 3. Red Gold Green & Blue – RMXZ 4. Tower of Power – Step Up 5. David Haerle – Death Valley 6. Appalachian Road Show – Tribulation 7. Chicano Batman – Invisible People 8. Whitney Rose – We Still Go To Rodeos 9. Margaret Glaspy – Devotion 10. …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, May 18th, 2020. In today’s show, WFHB Assistant News Director Sydney Foreman talks to John Hamilton, Mayor of Bloomington, in our recurring segment, A Few Minutes with the Mayor. Also, restaurants in Bloomington are beginning to reopen. WFHB News Director Kade Young talks to Chris Martin, who owns a string of restaurants, …
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This core of this week’s Kite Line is a conversation between Anastazia Schmid and Jennifer Fleming about trying to get an education before, during, and after incarceration. You’ve likely heard Anastazia before on Kite Line, both while she was inside at the Indiana Women’s Prison, and since she was released last year. We will be sharing more of these conversations …
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We’re not talking about the mind today, but of internment, and ghettos, of settlement camps. Today’s conversation focuses on the history and origins of concentration, a form of biopolitics that seeks to manage and structure the movement of social groups in a predictable manner. Modern forms of concentration have become a nearly ubiquitous force of social structuring: from mass incarceration …
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