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Staff Pick

In honor of the mid-'60s TV series, we stack a few classic 45s on the spindle and remember.
  • Bloomington-based writer Colleen Wells reads her poems “The Sounds of Silence,” “Nature or Nurture,” “Rummy & Chummy,” “He’s Gone,” and “it’s really a crapshoot.”
  • Danny William
    We’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.

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Selections from the American Songbook that lost their copyright status in 2026.
  • Wikimedia Commons
    We’re continuing our series on music in and about the Americas during the first centuries of European colonization with a focus on Southern New Spain and the Portuguese Empire in South America. Join us as we explore the musical legacies of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Peru, Guatemala, Brazil, and more.
  • In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was at the peak of his first great period, playing with a confident, swinging, and radical abandon both as a leader and with Max Roach and Miles Davis.
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