Getting on the airwaves

There's no new show today, but the VoxPod team is branching out from the podcast, and getting on KUOW's FCC-regulated airwaves. At the start of Weekday's 10 o'clock show this morning, they aired Molly McGill's story about the youngest logger in Granite Falls.
And on yesterday's edition of The Conversation, Ross Reynolds's team talked to Molly, Kayla Sargent, and Emily Barreca about anti-drug ads. Want to hear it? Click here, pick a stream, then jump to the 26-minute mark (Molly starts talking about her friends questionable recreational activities at around 26:35).
Weekday will be airing more VoxPod content over the next few weeks. Of course, the first place to hear it is on the podcast.
See you on Monday.

Thursday: The Arab Festival

The bienniel Arab Festival took place last weekend, and we (dramatic pause) were there.

Two Arabian days and nights (9:21)
The Arab Festival, replete with music, food, dancing and workshops from Arab cultures, took over Seattle Center last weekend. Sophia Skalbania and Amina Al-Sadi have some of the highlights from the festival, including interviews with dancers and musicians, young and old.

Here's a photo of the band Sons of Hager, featured in the show:

If you listen real closely, you can hear Kayla Sargent ask Ali, the Egyptian bachelor, a question.
There's a lot of good sound in this show. I hope you enjoy it.
We'll be back on Monday.

Wednesday: gnomes and homes

The two interviews on today's show vary pretty wildly in both theme and tone, but at least the topics rhyme.

The lure of gnomes and homes (6:49)
Both home schooled students and gnomes are often stigmatized as loners. Today, we have two stories that refute such ideas. Amina Al-Sadi interviews a parent and teacher at a home school resource center. Molly McGill talks to her neighbor, who is building a home for a gnome.

Here's a picture of Vern, Molly's hook-handed neighbor, and his gnome

Flickr has a slideshow of garden gnomes, if you need some more visual stimulation while listening to the show.

Tuesday: Everyone loves a parade!

It may be cloudy in the northwest today, but we profile two sunny summer events in today's show.

Staples of Summer (7:56)

Today on VoxPod, we have the highlights of two summer traditions that bring people out to celebrate. Emily Barreca has an essay on the Independence Day parade on Bainbridge Island. And Kayla Sargent covers the crowds and the music at the Capitol Hill Block Party.

Do you like the new collage credits at the end of the show? The new music underneath all our voices is Tubularity / Birth by Sawtooth.

Monday: VoxPotter

Hope you had a good weekend. I spent a chunk of it reading.

Spoiler Alert (8:30)
How do Harry Potter books impact communities? Book sellers and movie theatre owners love the series, but reading the books can have a negative social effect. We also share our favorite lines from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (we promise not to spoil the ending).

Pretty much everyone, including Weekday host Steve Scher, contributed to this show.

A few items of business

-Music credit: this show features two wonderful songs found on CCMixter, "Summer Never Came" by Grapes, and "Just Talk Beat" by Ashwan. Go find songs in the creative commons there, if you want.)
-VoxPod's on MySpace. Wanna be our friends?
-Our system will only hold the last five podcasts, so if you really want last Monday's show, get it before Tuesday morning.

Finally, the ultimate question:
Harry Potter: love him or leave him?