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November 27, 2024

 

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The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 4: Rita’s Village

As the final chapter of our missing cat saga opens, it’s getting to be winter, and Kayte still hasn’t found Rita. The odds of Rita surviving are getting slim.

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November 20, 2024

 

Calico cat nestled in the leaves

The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 3: Missing Rita

Kayte’s cat Rita had been missing for months when Kayte started to hear about sightings in a nearby neighborhood. She went over there with a pillowcase. It didn’t go well. The election results that November didn’t help.

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November 13, 2024

 

Three kittens relaxing on an easy chair

The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 2: Finding Rita

When Kayte’s cat Rita escaped at the Kroger, it wasn’t the first time she’d left. In Chapter 2 of The Third Time Rita Left, we hear how she came to Kayte’s house, and left, and then snuck back in, almost in disguise.

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November 6, 2024

 

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How Are You Feeling?

It's the day after a momentous election. We want to hear from you.

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November 6, 2024

 

A healthy-looking calico cat standing in a yard

The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 1

For months after Rita escaped, Kayte didn’t lose hope. There were other problems in the world, but things were looking up. The U.S. was about to elect its first female president. But as she kept looking for Rita, all of that would change.

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October 30, 2024

 

Lieutenant governor candidate Terry Goodin (D) speaks to Democrats at the Indiana Rural Summit

The Elusive Rural Indiana Democrat

If it’s hard to imagine getting elected as a Democrat in rural Indiana, you’ll understand why so few people try. This election cycle, though, some are. We look into what they hope to accomplish, and how they're trying to do it.

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October 16, 2024

 

A hardcore house show outside of Cleveland

Fitting In Is Easy. Midwest Punk Is Harder.

Raechel Anne Jolie came up in punk scenes around Cleveland in the 90s and early 2000s, and wrote a memoir about that and more, called Rust Belt Femme. She says when you don't fit in to mainstream society, there's plenty of community to be found on the outskirts of it.

October 2, 2024

 

Mary Hunter at the Monroe County Waste Reduction District

Your Trash Is Mary's Treasure

Mary Hunter runs Materials for the Arts at the Monroe County Waste Reduction District—the recycling center. She’ll find a place for almost anything you bring her.

September 18, 2024

 

Historical marker in front of the Eugene V. Debs Museum

A Long-Dead Unionist’s Biggest Fan

Allison Duerk didn’t go to college to become the director of a museum devoted to Eugene Debs, one of the U.S.’s most famous socialists, but she’s pretty happy it worked out that way.

September 4, 2024

 

Isak Asare smiles with trees in the background

What's Fun About City Government? Ft. Isak Asare

So many of us are happy not to be involved in local government. Bloomington City Councilmember Isak Asare talks about its satisfactions, and how questions of protocol are also questions of justice.

August 21, 2024

 

A woman stands in a yard with a cookout in the background

Justin Carney’s Photography Reworks Family Grief

When Justin’s grandmother died, her siblings stopped getting together. Then Justin started taking pictures, and things changed. Justin Carney is an artist who uses photography to think through family grief. It seems to be helping.

August 7, 2024

 

Amy Oelsner stands smiling and holding an electric guitar outside with a lake behind her

Amy Oelsner and Girls Rock Bloomington Start Rocking

In the past 12 years, singer-songwriter Amy Oelsner has released 9 albums. We talk about grief, creativity, and why she started Girls Rock Bloomington, a music program for girls, and trans and nonbinary youth.

June 28, 2024

 

LaWaSo Ground, Columbus Indiana

Who and How to Remember

A walk among memorials and public art pieces in the fall of 2021. We talk with creators, participants, and passers-by about the meaning of public art, about Native presence in a state named for Indians, about immigration, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Indiana, who we choose to remember, and how.

June 21, 2024

 

Nanette Vonnegut with self portrait painted at 14

Nanette Vonnegut: Self-Portrait at 14

Nanette Vonnegut on painting and getting older, and the late writer Dan Wakefield on Indianapolis, spiritual writing, and his friend, Kurt Vonnegut.

June 14, 2024

 

Inside the Bybee Stone Mill

Joyce Jeffries and the Cutters

Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer though. This week, Joyce, and others, on limestone.

June 7, 2024

 

Stephen Deusner

Southern Rock, Midwestern Soul

Music critic Stephen Deusner on the book he wrote about the Drive-By Truckers, the South, and more. Plus, a review of a locally-born band that made President Obama’s best-of list.

May 31, 2024

 

Marabai Rose

Doubting Her Paralysis

When Marabai Rose was 38, a mysterious paralysis came over her. The challenges of getting diagnosed – and treated – in this episode, based on her book, Holding Hope.

May 24, 2024

 

Morning at the encampment at Dunn Meadow, May 2

Voices from the Encampment

What gets you out in support of a cause? Alex talked with some of the people at the Pro-Palestine encampment on the IU Bloomington campus, a week after it started.

May 17, 2024

 

Ross Gay in a pink shirt

Ross Gay on How We Can Change, Sentence By Sentence

We talk with Ross Gay about his new book (more delights!), how writing a sentence helps us see how we change, and protecting the sanctity of one’s interiority.

May 10, 2024

 

Artist Honey Hodges

If My Hands Could Look Like Hers

First, a conversation with artist Honey Hodges about immigrating to the U.S., and the opportunity to care for someone who has always taken care of you, and making collages. Then, naturalist Jim Eagleman reminds us why we should go outside in the winter, and at night.

April 26, 2024

 

Grier Carson

Does The Future of Libraries – or Narrative Itself – Include Books?

Intellectual freedom, the future of narrative, and what libraries are for in the 21st century, with Monroe County Public Library director Grier Carson

May 3, 2024

 

Indiana Dunes looking east to Michigan City

Indiana's Oil and Gas Boom Still Echoes Today

Scholar and writer Ava Tomasula y Garcia tells the story of the Calumet Region, how the gas boom started with a bang, brought major industry and new racial dynamics, and why “the Rust Belt” is a bit of a misnomer.

April 19, 2024

 

Orli Shaham

Orli Shaham On Where Music Is and Where It’s Going

Is classical music in trouble? Pianist Orli Shaham believes most people, “given half a chance,” will seek out deeper art forms at some point in their lives. This week, Orli Shaham on helping people find their way to classical music, and more.

April 12, 2024

 

Cassette tape

Mixtape: Stories of Love, Music, and More

It’s a mixtape! Five songs (okay, stories), by five different producers. Three are about being behind the scenes. One’s about your dad retiring. And an investigation into love.

April 5, 2024

 

Eric Deggans

NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans and Comedian Sara Schaefer Say What Needs to Be Said

Critic Eric Deggans says TV offers him a wide canvas for engaging with culture, and comedian Sara Schaefer decides Twitter isn’t the best place to address sexism in comedy. So she makes video sketches instead.

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