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137- The Keepers - Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand
The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress, Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue libr…
6 years, 1 month ago
136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson
Lou Reed—music icon, poet, photographer, Tai Chi master, vital force in the cultural life and underworld of New York City. Lou died in 2013 and left …
6 years, 2 months ago
135 - Deep Fried Fuel - A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision - Celebrating Over the Road
In celebration of truckers everywhere and of Radiotopia’s new show Over the Road, The Kitchen Sisters visit some of their favorite Texas pitstops. Fi…
6 years, 2 months ago
133 - WHER - 1000 Beautiful Watts, The First All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation
When Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ contract in 1955 he used the money to start an all-girl radio station in Memphis, TN. Set in a pink, plush studio in th…
6 years, 3 months ago
133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
The Archive House, The Listening House, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Dorchester Projects. Theaster Gates is a keeper of Greater Grand Crossing, hi…
6 years, 3 months ago
132 - The Pancake Years
For five years Davia’s father, Lenny Nelson, asked her to go to Rattlesden, England, to visit the Air Force base where he was stationed during WWII a…
6 years, 4 months ago
131 - Night of the Living Intern: First Stories from Kitchen Sisters Interns
Since we started our intern and mentoring program in 2000, over 100 young people, ranging from age 15 to 35, have come through our doors at Kitchen S…
6 years, 4 months ago
130 - Lipstick Traces — Dreaming in Public
They say the average woman dies with a pound of lipstick in her stomach. “I have a feeling when I go they’ll find five,” says Davia Nelson of The Kit…
6 years, 4 months ago
129 - Martin Scorsese — Try Anything
An onstage conversation with this master filmmaker about his extraordinary documentary work.
Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Alice Doesn’t Live…
6 years, 5 months ago
128 - First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
November 14, 1960 — Four six-year-old girls, flanked by Federal Marshals, walked through screaming crowds and policemen on horseback as they approach…
6 years, 5 months ago