California became the first state to ban single-use plastic bags in November. A middle-schooler from Sacramento wants to know if the ban actually helps the environment.
Curious City - City Of Big Potholes: Is Asphalt The Best Choice For Chicago’s Streets?
In the past decade the city paid out nearly $3 million drivers whose cars were damaged by poor road conditions. Is asphalt to blame?
the memory palace - Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)
Music, Footnotes & Ephemera
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Music
- We start out with some of Pound for Pound from The Bad Plus
- Go to Waltz by Mother Falcon
- Into the Light by Marisa Anderson
- With Everything that Breathes by Greg Haines
- Day One Four by F.S. Blum and Nils Frahm
- Andrew Cyrille, Jimmy Lyons, and Jeanne Lee do Nuba
- And then Davis S. Ware does Mikuro’s Blues, which I’ve loved for a long time.
Bay Curious - Can’t Get That Camping Spot? It Could Be Bots
Some people are using bots to get campsites at state and national parks. Is it legal? Is it fair?
Credits: Jessica Placzek, Olivia Allen-Price, Paul Lancour, Vinnee Tong, Julia McEvoy
ATXplained - Were There Convicts On Convict Hill?
In 1881, the first Texas Capitol building burned to the ground, and leaders set about building a new one. They wanted to use local materials, including limestone from a quarry in Oatmanville – the area now known as Oak Hill – so they built a 6-mile railroad line from Oatmanville to the Capitol site. Then they needed workers.
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Curious City - Boystown: How Chicago Got Its Gay Neighborhood
Political activism and businesses helped shape the city's gay neighborhood, but there's a debate about its future.
Bay Curious - It’s-It! The San Francisco Treat That Sparked a Cult Following
San Franciscans have been having a love-affair with this ice cream treat since 1928.
Reported by Alyssa Kapnik Samuel and Seth Samuel. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Penny Nelson, Suzie Racho and Julia McEvoy. Our managing editor is Ethan Lindsey. Vice President for News is Holly Kernan. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
Ask us a question at BayCurious.org.
Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.
Curious City - Curious City: What Happens To Food On Cancelled Flights?
When a flight gets cancelled, it's not only travel plans that get trashed.
Bay Curious - Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall?
It used to take hours or days to change the lights at city hall lights. Now it's done with a few clicks.
Reported by Jessica Placzek. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
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Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.
the memory palace - Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined
This episode was originally released in August of 2015. It was re-released upon hearing that the city of New Orleans has begun the process of removing four monuments to the confederacy and post-civil war era, starting with an obelisk erected in 1891 honoring members of the Crescent City White League who suppressed the African American vote through violence and intimidation and who launched a failed military overthrow of the city’s elected government and integrated police force in 1874.
Music * First up (and returning at the end) is Sandra's Theme, from Heather McIntosh's fantastic score to Compliance, a very good, very disturbing movie. * We hit Frank Glazer leading Charles Ives' Largo for Clarinet, Violin and Piano a couple of times, framing... * Runaway from Olafur Arnalds.
Notes: *The key to researching this episode turned out to be an article in The Journal of Southern History from 2001 by Court Carnay called, "The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest.". * Also particularly useful was Nathan Bedford Forrest: a Biography, by Jack Hurst. * As was Lynching in America: A History in Documents, compiled by Christopher Waldrep. * Much of my information about the contents of the ceremony and speeches was gathered from this, the digitized journal and scrapbook of Charles Henry Niehaus, the sculptor of the monument. It's an extraordinary resource. * And let us all read Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases, by Ida B. Wells. And let's put her on the $10 while we're at it.