Everett Public Library Podcasts

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Everett Public Library Podcasts episodes

November 13, 2018 "The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown"
The Lone Reader examines Paul Taylor's The Next America, which lays bare the ineluctable calculus of near-future retirements funded by a shrinking workforce.
3 min
November 06, 2018 An audio review of the film "Contemporary Color"
Alan explores the eponymously named "Contemporary Color," referring to a ballet-like artistic elaboration of the flag-bearing marchers that perform at half-time shows of sporting events. The film focuses on a competition held in New York at the instigation of David Byrne, the multi-level genius that fronted for Talking Heads.
6 min
October 18, 2018 With a Capital T
Mr. Neutron's audio tribute to Tacoma band Girl Trouble, who weaves a magical web of lava lamps, black light posters, and shag carpeting.
5 min
October 09, 2018 An audio review of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus"
The Lone Reader draws a bead on Mary Shelley's classic monster novel, seen by many as the first science fiction work.

Music: "Under the Porcelain," by Good Noise Bad Noise vs Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel.
3 min
October 09, 2018 An audio review of "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein."
Alan kicks off the library's Frankenfest celebration by reviewing James Whale's dual masterpieces, 1931's Frankenstein and 1935's Bride of Frankenstein. Alan will lead discussions of the two films on Saturday, Oct. 27 in the Main Library Auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Avenue. The showings begin at approximately 11:30am.

Music: "Kompat Project test recording," by Krisztina Zsolnai and Gabor Varadi; "Evoked Potentials, (signal-to-noise Ratio)" by Cage Cabarrett.
8 min
September 18, 2018 "Northwest Rocks"
Mr. Neutron sketches sixty years of Pacific Northwest rock.
6 min
September 11, 2018 "In the Blink of an Eye," by Walter Murch
The Lone Reader, Cameron Johnson, ruminates upon iconic film editor Walter Murch's tidy tour-de-force about filmmaking.
3 min
September 04, 2018 "Newtown," an audio review of the documentary
Newtown is an unexploitative, honest, yet shocking saga of the massacre--and aftermath-- of Newtown, CT's 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, which took the lives of twenty children and six adults.
5 min
August 21, 2018 "Welcome to the Funhouse"
Mr. Neutron samples The Funhouse Comp Thing 2, a raw, dirty-sounding, dangerous compilation of bands who played in Seattle's Funhouse, a punk bar that closed in 2012 to make way for an apartment building.
5 min
August 14, 2018 A Lone Reader audio review of "Frankenstein: A Cultural History," by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
The Lone Reader looks at Susan Hitchcock's book about the 200-year cultural reverberations emanating from Mary Shelley's 1818 publication of her groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein.
3 min

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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.