Staff Pick
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Ernie Pyle: Life in the Trenches is a 90-minute WTIU documentary that tells the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who reached millions each week with stories about ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things.
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City and county officials said the choice comes with caveats.
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Gene Stratton-Porter's conservation legacy lives on through a new generation of women leading today's environmental movement. Meet some of the acclaimed authors, scientists, historians, and advocates featured in the upcoming WTIU/PBS documentary Gene Stratton-Porter: Music of the Wild and discover how they are carrying her vision into the future.
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Hilda Weges/Adobe StockLearn more about how the zebra finch thinks about color with today's A Moment of Science!
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WFIU invites you to a summer evening filled with live jazz, community spirit, and music under the evening sky at Jazz in July: Columbus. This free outdoor concert features the Visions Jazz Ensemble, led by Indianapolis trumpeter and composer Sam Butler, whose performances blend classic jazz traditions with contemporary influences and vibrant improvisation. -
Celebrate 250 years of American history with the Monroe County History Center and Indiana Public Media (WFIU/WTIU) on Saturday, July 11th from 12-3pm on the Monroe County History Center front lawn. Enjoy hands on activities, live music, educational demos, guided tours, and more! Plus at 2 pm, watch a special screening of clips from the new PBS docuseries THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. After the screening, attendees are encouraged to visit the History Center’s exhibition of Monroe County Revolutionary War veterans. This screening, and all the block party activities are free and open to the public.
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We’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.
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Colleen Wells reads her poems “Hello, Walls,” “What it is,” “Reframing,” “The Wisdom of Fifty-one,” and “Checklist.”
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Town boosters competed fiercely for the designation of county seat during the nineteenth century.
In case you missed it!
A survey of the character-driven songs that defined the great narrative-driven Disney films of the '50s and '60s.
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Browse our playlist for this week's show
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Netherlands Institute for Art History/Wikimedia CommonsThis hour, we’re continuing our exploration of ways that landscape has been reflected in the music of earlier centuries, from topography and weather conditions to wildlife and human interventions. We’ll float down rivers, stroll through peaceful forests, and admire hgfdqpowerful storms in music by Clément Janequin, Claudio Monteverdi, Matthew Locke, and more.
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In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was at the peak of his first great period, playing with a confident, swinging, and radical abandon both as a leader and with Max Roach and Miles Davis.
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Human pollution has an impact on all environments across the globe, including in remote Antarctica. -
Many animals use mimicry to confuse others around them. Learn how the dottyback fish uses this ability with today's A Moment of Science. -
Why do bubbles pop so soon, and how long can they really last? -
Some animals are able to lose a limb to save themselves in a process called autotomy. -
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The FBI is investigating a suspected hate-motivated arson after a fire damaged a former downtown Zionsville business Friday morning. -
The Frank E. McKinney Jr. Fountain, located on Eagleson Avenue across from the Jacobs School of Music, started operation in 1997 and was dedicated to McKinney, an IU swimmer who won three Olympic medals and became a prominent banker. -
The subcommittee heard from community members during a dedicated hour of public comment at its meeting Thursday. -
Monroe County could face another lawsuit by the ACLU of Indiana for overcrowding and poor conditions. Sending prisoners to other counties is a temporary solution. -
An 85-year-old Bloomington was killed in a car crash Thursday night.
