Philly From Scratch

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David Brown sleeps on a subway concourse below City Hall. He also has AIDS. On this week's (fully subscribable) podcast, Philly From Scratch interviews Brown, as well as Jose DeMarco, an activist with ACT UP Philly — the group that recently interrupted the mayor's budget address and which is fighting for funding to end the waiting list for housing for people with AIDS.

(Philly From Scratch, a scrappy homemade podcast that soon to be more frequently posted than it is now, is fully subscribable!  

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POSTED: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 10:47 PM
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Philadelphia City Council president Anna Verna displays her councilmanic might; attorney Darrell Zaslow gives his two cents on the new public comment period in Council; and in this week's new "The one that got away" feature on under-reported news, we look at Sugarhouse Casino's lower-than-expected earnings — all in the latest episode of our highly-experimental podcast! (download the mp3 here).

*note: The original post contained an MP3 with a bit of missing material; I swapped files at about 7:00PM.

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anna verna

Isaiah Thompson
Posted 2010-12-23 13:50:09
Corrected, and apologies: I am, in this era of unedited online chaos, a serial misspeller of names. I will endeavor to improve in 2011.

Happy Holidays, - Isaiah
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POSTED: Friday, November 26, 2010, 10:10 PM
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What the hell is Newsworks? WHYY's Chris Satullo explains. (Download the MP3 here). Click here to subscribe to Philly From Scratch and download the podcast automatically.

Yes, friends, the Philly From Scratch podcast is finally working (meaning that you can subscribe to it, and let itunes or another program check for updates for you). We'll aim for weekly episodes, featuring interviews, audio delights, and — well, who knows what else? Stay tuned.

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In this episode, WHYY's Chris Satullo talks about the nonprofit's new, ambitious journalism project NewsWorks, of which Satullo serves as director of news and "civic dialogue."

In the interview, I follow up on some quetsions I posed about NewsWorks when it first launched two weeks ago, including how it can fill the hole left in local journalism by the near-elmination of daily newspapers' neighborhood reporting staff; whether there really exists a lack of "civic dialogue," out there and how NewsWorks will change that; and how, generally, this whole thing is supposed to work.


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POSTED: Thursday, September 23, 2010, 10:18 PM
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Yes, it's been about a year ... OK, try 18 months ... since the last episode of the Philly From Scratch podcast.

(UPDATE: We're having some trouble with the feed presently. For now, if you're just dying to be notified of new podcasts — and yes, they will come! — click here to subscribe to the Philly From Scratch Google Group for notifications of new episodes. It's not perfect, but I'll at least keep you posted and won't spam you. You can also email me, just for the hell of it. Once our feed gets restored, you'll click here to subscribe via iTunes; you can try anyway, if you like.)

But anyway, the podcast is back now, with none other than the great Harry Shearer.

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Shearer is a man of many hats: actor (This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind); comedian (Saturday Night Live); author (Too Many Indians), Simpsons-voice-extraordinaire (Mr. Burns, Smithers, Flanders, Lenny, Principal Skinner, Dr. Marvin Monroe, and others), radio host (Le Show), and his latest act: film documentarian.

A long-time critic of the role of federal government played in the flooding of New Orleans, Shearer has never let listeners to his radio show forget that what happened to the city was not a natural disaster, but a man-made one.

Seeing the approach of the five-year anniversary of Katrina — and seeing that this point, five years later, seems to have escaped most of the media, as well as President Obama — Shearer put together a documentary, The Big Uneasy, featuring a small handful of whistle blowers and researchers who present a compelling case that the federal government (the Army Corps of Engineers, in particular), and not Hurricane Katrina, nearly destroyed New Orleans.

Unfortunately, the film screened in most cities for one night only, but it's playing in New York City for a week starting this Friday (click here for showtimes).

In this interview, Shearer talks about the film, his show, why NPR rejected an ad for his show, and how the hell he manages to do as much as he does.

[audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/pfs_harry_shearer.mp3]

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