Not everyone in the 1980’s were walking on sunshine. On this installment of our look back podcast, we talk back to bullies, go to Southern...
Been a long time since you strained your brain? Come join us Back by the Woodpile for more word wrestling as we discuss saints, sinners,...
Welcome to another dig through the often overlooked music of the 1980s! This time around journalist and author John J Thompson of True Tunes fame...
The final in the series of interviews conducted at the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, music enthusiastic Phil Oldham talks about the state...
Dr. Ming Wang is an Ophthalmologist and scientist who’s pioneered both the fields of health technology and molecular biology, having published research papers and...
Thieves have stolen all the arms and legs of a sweet child’s baby doll collection! Who would do such an inconsiderate thing? We’re not sure...
Joe Torre has been around the computing block both in soft and hardware since the 1970’s. By taking advantage of his luck and pushing discipline...
The Ramones are easily one of the most important rock bands of the 20th century. I’ve been a proud fan since I discovered them and...
DJ Ron Slomowicz has been pumping dance beats out onto the club floors, airwaves and media avenues for over 20 years now. In a moment of...
Another flip through our 1980s back pages, this time around: interning at one of the first hip hop radio stations ever, getting that first kiss...
More philosophical tango, this time around touching on suppression of speech, everyone getting offended, riding on the fumes of past dreams, unheard words, thoughts missed...
The blurred perspicacity of an indecent single mom
As Jews, Geralda & Yuri Zhislin’s parents miraculously survived the Nazi invasion of the Ukraine only to next feel the persecution of the Soviet Union’s...
Tito Puente was considered hands down the “King of the Mambo”, pushing and molding the genre of Latin jazz known by many names over time....
Even when Charlie Coleman was a kid, hot jazz was fading from the mainstream public’s musical preferences. But knowing great music when he heard it,...
Master Hu is Taoist scholar who discusses with us the relationship between the philosophical and religious spectrum of Taoism, the attempt to incorporate Confucianism, making...
More highlighting of overlooked artists from the 1980’s decade. Including Pseudo Echo, The Lazy Cowgirls, the Roxanne Roxanne answer records, 鄧麗君, 15 60 75 Numbers...
This episode features a guy named Steve C who’s had a lot of disappointment in his life. Date-killing bad memory and bowels, opening for a...
Another philosophical discussion, this time around on such light subjects as martyrdom, socialism, forgiveness, failure and spilling huckleberries. Click here to find on iTunes! Click...
More tubular tripping backwards to the 1980’s where this time around we chat about The Kinks doing it again, a Tennessee Waltz crush in Zimbabwe,...
It’s once again time to don your spandex, caped crusaders! As the Chicago Comicon and Entertainment Expo or C2E2 is this weekend. This year, we...
Holy Mother of Dragons… As if there were any question why it’s the best show on television, the Game of Thrones season 6 redband trailer...
Creating digital worlds in which to explore and interact in used to be the privilege of those who both educated themselves on how to do...
Booyah! The eighth installment of the viral video series Gymkhana features the Head Hoonigan in Charge Ken Block tearing through the streets and desert of...
He’s handsome. He’s talented. He’s made 30 movies, of which everyone in the world has seen or at least heard of one. The truth is, he’s...
On this week’s episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, African-American Hattie Bruce comes from the past tells about her own simple but...
After many snubs throughout his prolific film career, actor Leonardo DiCaprio is the favorite to win Best Actor in the Oscars this Sunday. While everyone...
The hashtag, #FreeKesha, and the movement behind it has rapidly become something far greater than the recent Manhattan Supreme Court ruling and the reaction which...
Actor George Gaynes, best known the world over as “Punky Brewster’s Dad,” and as the lovable Commandant Lassard in seven “Police Academy” films, died on...
More philosophical back and forth at the woodpile, this time around discussing the stuff found in silence, time’s changing medicinal hands and knowing perfection through...