On today’s show: We’ll try to find the center of the Internet... and take a look at the infrastructure that enables much of the World Wide Web. We’ll find out about the role cheese has played in human culture. Joe Blair discusses his memoir By The Iowa Sea. Plus, attorney Michael Armstrong describes the tense two years he spent on the Knapp Commission's investigation into NYPD corruption.
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Long before rap, there was “the dozens” – the African-American street rhyming tradition that often involved… your mom. Today: Author Elijah Wald shares the surprising musical history of the viciously funny insults. Plus: A live performance from indie veteran Frankie Rose.
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Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
Long before rap, there was “the dozens” – the African-American street rhyming tradition that often involved… your mom. Today: Author Elijah Wald shares the surprising musical history of the viciously funny insults. Plus: A live performance from indie veteran Frankie Rose.
It's that time of the month again for our monthly program of new releases. John Schaefer once again picks through the spring flood of CDs that have been sent to his office to find new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's program. First, a remembrance of Portuguese pianist Bernardo Sassetti, who died earlier this month. Then, hear new Swedish jazz electronica from e.s.t., which had been recorded before the pianist Estbjorn Svenson died in 2008. It had languished unreleased in a studio in Sydney, Australia for four years.
