It’s been more than six months since José Fajardo departed WMFE in a cloud of toothy charm and firm handshakes – and at least three pledge drives – but the staff of our local NPR affiliate has carried on, grown and excelled, despite lacking an official leader. Now the station announces their candidate search...
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Shakey Graves is the music you’d play throughout your whole house on a day spent luxuriating in your own space.
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The 3-D giant-screen presentation highlights the massive global relief efforts that have gone into revitalizing Haiti.
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A category-busting movie event that happily blurs the lines of the medium.
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Crank up your radios, NPR news junkies. “Talk of the Nation” broadcasts live from the WMFE studios in Orlando tomorrow (Wed., Jan. 25) at 2 p.m. Listen in as hosts Neal Conan and Ken Rudin tackle America’s true pastime – politics – with insight and good humor live on 90.7 FM. If you miss them...
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In case you haven’t noticed, yet another controversy has begun to swirl around James O’Keefe, the insufferably smug little video terrorist and protégé of Andrew Breitbart whose fraudulent acts of “citizen journalism” delivered the death blow to ACORN. This time, it’s some of his accomplices who are giving O’Keefe the public stink eye: Two...
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Sunday, Oct. 30 – David Sedaris Seemingly reluctant hero to the hero-less, downward gazing author David Sedaris’ meandering streams of consciousness have made him into a sort of fireside chat favorite – if that fireside is (or was) actually the crackle of a burning cigarette over the airwaves of National Public Radio accompanied by...
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Hope everyone is having a good fourth of July weekend and that you haven’t blown off any of your appendages while celebrating. Transformers 3 is making a shitload of money despite seemingly no one thinking it was good, but that’s just how Michael Bay movies work. I’m gonna go with a short preamble today...
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