Everett Public Library Podcasts
Educational
The Everett Public Library produces podcast files on subjects such as The Directors Corner, Author Visits, Staff Book Reviews, Interviews, History Tours, and other subjects of interest to our patrons.
Location:
WA
Description:
The Everett Public Library produces podcast files on subjects such as The Directors Corner, Author Visits, Staff Book Reviews, Interviews, History Tours, and other subjects of interest to our patrons.
Language:
English
Episodes
The Once & Future River, by Eric Wagner and Tom Reese
8/11/2020
The Lone Reader turns his gaze to this series of essays and photos describing the fate of the lower Duwamish River, which empties into Elliott Bay in Seattle.
cc Audio:
Early morning on Yaquina Bay, by daveincamas
Inderhalle
Duration:00:04:12
"The Education of an Idealist," by Samantha Power
7/14/2020
Samantha "Sam" Power's memoir of her time as a close confidant to President Barack Obama in the realm of foreign affairs.
Music: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden," by Franz Schubert, courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Duration:00:02:19
"Nomadland," by Jessica Bruder
6/9/2020
Reveals the hidden world of "nomads," financially strapped older people that live in vans and cheap RVs, driving where their work takes them.
Music: Darkdance, by Eric Kanold
Duration:00:02:35
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Embarrassment
5/19/2020
Mr. Neutron gives the skinny on this early Lawrence, KS punk band, whose music is "somewhat repetitive, minimal, slow to develop, without much growth or direction. Vocals are stylistically odd and sparse. There is a sloppy feel to the whole endeavor. But it all works together brilliantly!"
Duration:00:05:21
"This Chair Rocks," by Ashton Applewhite
5/12/2020
A manifesto against the belief that older people are weak, drab, depressed, dimwitted clones of one another.
Music: Blues Jam 2011, by Steve Belong
Duration:00:02:31
Fruitvale Station / Blindspotting
4/27/2020
Alan takes us on a social justice trip to Oakland, through the medium of two recent films: 2013's "Fruitvale Station" and 2018's "Blindspotting."
Music: Flatwound: A View Southward, by John Pazdan
Duration:00:05:52
A Tale of 2 Cities, Punk Version
4/21/2020
What do Akron Ohio and Portland Oregon have in common? Why, iconic first-wave punk music. Mr. Neutron elucidates...
Duration:00:07:47
"The Dreamt Land," by Mark Arax
4/15/2020
The story of the engineering of California's water supply. California leads the way, so they say. Unfortunately, as regards water, it seems to be leading us down a sinkhole.
Music: Supernal Liquid (Reign Water Remix)
Duration:00:02:23
The Name of This Band Is the Talking Heads
3/17/2020
At times funky, possible progenitors of post-punk, filled with the occasional outburst of bubbly pop music, Talking Heads brought a healthy arsenal of tools to their repertoire.
Duration:00:04:04
"Deep Thinking," by Garry Kasparov
3/10/2020
Garry Kasparov, one of the strongest world chess champions of all time, also grew into his prime during the rise of computer chess-playing programs. This is Kasparov's story of the evolution of these programs, including his 1997 loss to the IBM-funded Deep Blue, a dedicated chess-playing supercomputer able to analyze 200 million positions per second.
Music: Petak 13Friday13, by Tomo Sombolac
Duration:00:02:45
"Attack the Block" an audio review by Alan Jacobson
3/3/2020
Savage aliens make the mistake of invading a London council block (low-income neighborhood), the turf of a group of street youths. Outer space meets inner city. A thinking man's action film, bursting with humor and satire. And aliens.
Duration:00:05:31
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Black Tones!
2/18/2020
Demonstrating a praiseworthy diversity of styles from this fabulous album.
Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill of Everett Public Library (WA).
Duration:00:04:25
How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
2/11/2020
The Lone Reader follows food guru Michael Pollan's foray into feeding not your body but your head: Reviewing studies in which carefully controlled doses of psychedelics like LSD and Psilocybin are shown effective in treating certain types of mental illness.
Music: Beats, by Crooked Vision
Duration:00:02:26
Isn't It Romantic?
2/4/2020
Two films, 87 years apart, put the flutter in our ribcages.
Duration:00:06:57
God Is Red, by Vine Deloria, Jr.
1/14/2020
The Lone Reader seeks relief for his tech-driven nightmares through reading a radically different world view: Native American religion, as interpreted by Indian writer Vine Deloria, Jr. It doesn't help.
Duration:00:02:20
More Film Noir
1/7/2020
Alan illuminates some underappreciated noir classics.
Duration:00:08:08
"A Cold Red Sunrise," by Stuart Kaminsky
12/10/2019
Stuart Kaminsky's irascible Soviet detective Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov travels to Siberia to find a murderer in a village full of exiles and incompetents.
Music: String Quartet No. 1, Op 7, by Bela Bartok, performed by the Borromeo String Quartet.
Duration:00:02:31
Film Noir I
12/3/2019
Alan surveys that American celluloid genre called "film noir": sinister, evocative, and doom-laden, both in style and content.
Image: "The Photographer," by Joaquim Alves Gaspar
Duration:00:07:50
"A Band Called Joseph"
11/19/2019
Mr. Neutron explores the dark underbelly of mainstream popular music in the form of Portland's three-sister-act, "Joseph"
Duration:00:04:21
"The University of Nike," by Joshua Hunt
11/13/2019
The Lone Reader takes aim at Joshua Hunt's scalding critique of the massive influence that the sports apparel manufacturer Nike wields over the University of Oregon and its football program.
Duration:00:02:44