The sight of workers with smudgy foreheads yesterday when I was downtown reminded me that it was Ash Wednesday, and the beginning of the Lenten season which leads up to Easter. The Catholic Online website reports that Massachusetts-based blogger and musician, Susan Bailey, is publishing a daily podcast during the forty days of Lent. “Theosis” […]

The Kansas City Weather Podcast has celebrated its fourth birthday – and with nearly daily episodes since its inception, it now has more than 1,300 episodes.

We talked to KC Weather Podcast creator Ed Roberts about his thoughts on starting his podcast’s fifth year.

UK dance record label Toolroom Records has two podcast series that are worth a listen, if you like house music. Toolroom founder and DJ Mark Knight hosts a monthly show featuring full tracks from some of the label’s artists, remixes of other songs, and a minimum of news and banter. It’s mostly music. A second […]

The Garage Punk website and Garage Punk Podcast Network are looking for podcasters who would like to help produce the Garage Punk show. Prospective hosts should be experienced podcasters whose shows are already part of the Garage Punk network. Garage Punk proprietor Jeff Kopp (Kopper) says <excerpted by me>: I’m going to open the floodgates […]

Looking at the current economic climate is, for the most part, an unhappy activity. Reports about retail sales, advertising, employment, stock prices, and industrial activity from the past several quarters is dismal. Forecasts for the year to come are gloomy. Two, or five, or ten years from now, we will all look back with a […]

William R. Patterson, financial advisor, author and host of the XM Radio show “The Power,” talks about the correlation between debt and depression (the emotional kind, not the economic kind) with host Bill Grady in the current episode of the You Are The Guest podcast. Much of the conversation is common-sense (i.e., anyone reading the […]

Here in Iowa, in December, we are having predictably treacherous winter weather. A balmy 40-degree (F) day melts the snow, which freezes to a sheet of ice as soon as the sun sets. I not-so-gracefully slipped on my way into the grocery store Monday night. Lovely. I wasn’t hurt (well, not too much), just bruised […]

For the past week, our local newspapers and television have been preoccupied with three main themes: feel-good features about Christmas, horror stories about murderous ex-husbands dressed like Santa Claus, and expanded coverage of multiple waves of bad weather (snow, fog, ice, snow, and ice-jammed flash flooding). Pushed to the margins of the news (here, at […]

IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, has a nice mix of new independent holiday music on the latest episode of its IODA Promonet Podcast. IODA is a digital distributor of independent music of every genre, from thousands of different record labels, and promotes that music to retailers, distributors, bloggers, and podcasters through its Promonet service. […]

The American Veterinary Medical Association has launched “Chew On This,” a podcast about food safety and protecting the [U.S.] food supply. Dr. James Cook, AVMA President, says, “We’re going to explore and investigate many of today’s topics surrounding food – where it comes from, how it gets to our tables and why it’s important to […]