We look at eight building features and what each reveals about how society and urban life has changed over the years.
the memory palace - Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. This episode was produced as part out or "Doing Time" series, where each show across the network tackles the same theme. Go listen to the other contributions at Radiotopia.fm.
Notes
- The most comprehensive book about Rose has to be Ann Blackman's Wild Rose: The True Story of a Confederate Spy.
- I also found an old book, Rebel Rose: Life of Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Confederate Spy, by Ishbel Ross particularly useful (if pretty rah-rah Confederacy, which gets kind of intense).
- Rose's memoir is very readable, too.
Music
- Marnie, from Bernard Hermann's score
- Don't Worry, by Zoe Keating
- Debut, by Christopher Ferreira
- El cascabel de plata, by Federico Durand
- Technology, by Gareth Dickson
- Longest Road, by Gaussian Curve
- Troubles, by Sylvain Chauvau
- Compesicion en Rojo, by Bernardo Bonezzi
the memory palace - If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the sixth episode of that residency.
This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.
This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Special thanks to Jimmy LaValle and Mark Kozelek.
The Art Discussed
- Gallery 719, the Alexandria Ballroom.
Music
- The piece features excerpts of two, instrumental outtakes from Ceiling Gazing from Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle's album, Perils from the Sea.
- California Dawn and Mountain Path from WMD.
- An instrumental version of Retune by The Range.
Bay Curious - What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?
Reported by Jessica Placzek. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Penny Nelson and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
Ask us a question at BayCurious.org.
Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.
Bay Curious - What Dinosaurs Roamed the Bay Area?
The answer is satisfyingly full of toothy prehistoric beasts.
Reported by Daniel Potter. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Penny Nelson and Jessica Placzek. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
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Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.
ATXplained - What’s Up With Those Handmade ‘We Buy Houses’ Signs Around Austin?
You’ve probably seen them while driving around town –- those handwritten signs next to the road with messages like: “We buy houses for cash! Call now!” What are they about, and why?
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Curious City - Building Skyscrapers on Chicago’s Swampy Soil
Engineers once compared Chicago’s soggy soil to jelly cake. How did they build a forest of skyscrapers on it?
Curious City - Building Skyscrapers on Chicago’s Swampy Soil
Engineers once compared Chicago’s soggy soil to jelly cake. How did they build a forest of skyscrapers on it?
the memory palace - Episode 110 (Lost Camels)
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.
Music
- We hear a bunch of Ryland, by Julian Lage off his World's Fair LP.
- We hear the Flamingos do Where or When.
- We hear Chilly Gonzalez' Salon Salloon
- And finish out on Small Memory by Jon Hopkins
Notes
- There's a bunch out there about the Camel Corps. You'll have fun Googling around. But some of the best details in here, including the remarkable thing about the Red Ghost, comes from this article from a 1961 issue of American Heritage.
Bay Curious - You Live in S.F. and Your Home Was Built in 1906: True or False?
Ask around in the more historic parts of San Francisco and you’ll find a good number of the homes were built in 1906. Or so people have been told.
Reported by Penny Nelson. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
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Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.
