All Pieces for The Kitchen Sisters

 
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Look around your daily life.  There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 7
The Unmaking of a Typewriter
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Jeremy Mayer is a sculptor who disassembles typewriters and reassembles them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. He does not solde...

Bought by WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 3
The Making of Song Reader
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Beck’s latest album, Song Reader, echoes the time when popular songs were played at home, around the parlor piano, porch guitar or grandpa’s harmon...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Making of the Ice Cream Karaoke Truck
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Treatbot, the karaoke ice cream truck, is a silver bullet on wheels that churns out gorgeous ice cream and hot music as it plies the streets of San...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 3
The Making of a Hat
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Paul’s Hat Works is a 95-year-old hat shop in San Francisco’s Richmond District. Four women--Abbie Dwelle, Wendy Hawkins, Olivia Griffin and Kirste...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:36
The Making of TechShop
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Laser cutters, 3D printers, sewing machines, injection molders, welders, notchers, planers, lathes, hand tools, computers. Enter TechShop, San Fran...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Making of the Fairing
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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South of Market in San Francisco, industrial designer Scott Summitt, is blurring the line between medical devices and sculpture. He calls what he’s...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Making of a Violin
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Remo del Tredici began making violins in his 70s. Inspired by his neighbor, a volunteer for AmVets, and the memory of his brother who was killed du...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Making of the Homobile
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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A story of transportation, civil rights and glitter. Homobile is a noncommercial, 24/7, queer car service created by Lynnee Breedlove for the LGBT ...

Bought by KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, XRAY.fm, KALW and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 6
Way To Blue: The Making of the Nick Drake Tribute Record
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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The Kitchen Sisters take us behind the scenes into rehearsal, sound check, and the making of Way To Blue, the new Nick Drake tribute record.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 16:49
Hidden Kitchens: The Raw & The Cooked
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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An hour-long journey into the world of clandestine cooking, kitchen rituals and traditions. Tales of kitchens that suddenly pop up, kitchens that s...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 56
Nights of Edith Piaf
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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She rose every day at dusk and sang, rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn, then slept all day and began to create and unravel again as th...

Bought by WABE, KZYX, KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 5
Norman Corwin: One World Flight
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Lost & Found Sound
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We delve into the audio archives of radio writer and director Norman Corwin. In 1946, while Corwin was working for CBS, producing very popular radi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, The Story, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 13:07
  • Purchases: 4
The Hidden World of Girls with Host Tina Fey (Hour 2)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Hidden World of Girls
Caption: Host, Tina Fey
Groundbreaking writer, actress and comedian, Tina Fey comes to Public Radio to host The Hidden World of Girls, two new hour-long Specials inspired ...

Bought by KCUR, New England Public Media, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Radio Catskill, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 132
The Hidden World of Girls with Host Tina Fey (Hour 1)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Hidden World of Girls
Caption: Host, Tina Fey
Groundbreaking writer, actress and comedian, Tina Fey comes to Public Radio to host The Hidden World of Girls, two new hour-long Specials inspired ...

Bought by KCUR, New England Public Media, Radio Catskill, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 159
The Hidden World of Girls with Host Tina Fey (Preview)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Caption: Host, Tina Fey
FULL PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.prx.org/pieces/68507 (HOUR 1) and http://www.prx.org/pieces/68512 (HOUR 2). Groundbreaking writer, actress...

Bought by WMNF, KWMR, KALW, Maine Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 12:29
  • Purchases: 7
Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering (Audio)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse, we present an excerpt from "The Power of Gathering (Audio)." Alice Waters, Calvin Trillin, Ruth R...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 2
The Sonic Memorial Project
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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To commemorate the tenth Anniversary of 9/11 we bring you the Peabody Award-winning Sonic Memorial Project, narrated by New York writer Paul Auster...

Bought by KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, WMMT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KHEN-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 30
Hidden Kitchen Mama
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Mothers and kitchens. The food they cooked or didn’t. The stories they told or couldn’t. In honor of Mother’s Day we linger in the kitchen.

Bought by KWMR, XRAY.fm, WABE, PRX Remix, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 11
The Birth of the Frito
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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The secret saga of a Texas corn chip, and C.E. Doolin, the can-do kitchen visionary behind it. The Kitchen Sisters travel to Dallas and discover an...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), The Story and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 11

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