How To Do Everything

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 | cool, shows | No Comments

Please welcome How To Do Everything to the mix! It’s half advice show, half survival guide. If you need to know how to find a date, or how to find water in the desert, this is the show for you. No question is too big or too small.

Here’s how it works: you send HTDE your questions—from “how do I break up with my hairstylist of 20 years” to “how do I not sound stupid when ordering wine” to “how do I escape a charging rhino”—and Mike and Ian answer them. Usually, given how little they actually know how to do, they find experts who can help you out.

How To Do Everything is hosted by Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag and produced by Blythe Haaga. You may know Ian and Mike as two of the names Peter Sagal says really fast at the end of NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.

We’ve added 15 episodes of HTDE to the mix and will add a new one into heavy rotation every week.

Intern Creates

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments

PRX intern Rene Dongo (recent graduate of Emerson College and a former host of two WECB talk shows) has created three promo spots for Public Radio Remix. Rene definitely has the remix sensibility. Have a listen!

Sound Opinions Reviews on Remix

Saturday, July 16th, 2011 | cool, music, shows | 1 Comment

We’re excited to offer new album reviews selected from the world’s only rock n’ roll talk show, Sound Opinions. Produced at WBEZ Chicago, Sound Opinions is hosted by Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, two of the finest and best-recognized pop music writers in the nation. Jim and Greg save you the time of that pesky listening process, by boiling down their reviews to three easy to use phrases: Buy It!, Burn It! or Trash It!

Tell me your thoughts

Friday, July 8th, 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Of all the ways there are to communicate ideas with sound, radio commentary isn’t usually my favorite. But sometimes a piece will make me stop, captivated. This short one made me smirk. Then laugh. Then listen again. It’s by Afi Scruggs, a journalist who is new to radio. Her commentary is called “Ode to the Pencil.”

Some of my other favorite commentaries aren’t so much commentaries, as personal accounts. These two are not yet on PRX, but are worth mentioning nevertheless. They come from my friend Alysia Abbott.

A Mother’s Lament

Raised by her gay father, a poet, in San Francisco, Abbott writes about the conflict between the “magical chaos” of her childhood and her desire to give her own children a different, more structured life. But order, like chaos, she finds, has a price.

That You’ll Understand

…Alysia Abbott looks squarely at the day-to-day love and work of mothering a child with autism and developmental disabilities.