The Kitchen Sisters Present

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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. The episodes tell deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerh...Show More

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108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System

22:20 | Jan 22nd, 2019

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Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist and serial sexual harasser. Forced out of the American L...Show More

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Fascinating look into the Dewey Decimal system and Melvil Dewey himself. Interesting arguments for and against the system, because Dewey was...Show More

100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive

32:20 | Sep 5th, 2018

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This is the first episode in our new series THE KEEPERS—stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians—Keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections th...Show More

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In the late 1990s the students of Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of Linguistics at UCLA, started coming by her office, imploring her to li...Show More

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64 – Kimchi Diplomacy: Hidden Kitchens – War and Peace and Food

21:10 | Feb 13th, 2017

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Kimchi in space. The Kimchi Bus. Korean government-sponsored chefs and restaurants spreading the word of Kimchi around the globe. A story of “Gastrodiplomacy” — the use of food as a diplomatic tool in...Show More

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“Kimchi is like air” in Korea and why the first Korean female astronaut not cut her hair before going to space plus why her Russian colleagu...Show More

136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson

30:57 | Feb 25th

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Lou Reed—music icon, poet, photographer, Tai Chi master, vital force in the cultural life and underworld of New York City. Lou died in 2013 and left not a word of instruction about what he wanted done...Show More

122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral

18:58 | Aug 21st, 2019

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"Hello Kitchen Sisters, I am a rogue archivist, the archivist for Burning Man. Come to Burning Man headquarters and I’ll show you the collection. Cheers.” — LadyBee, Archivist & Art Collection Manage...Show More

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About the origins of burning man and how Black Rock City was "founded" because they couldn't burn the man in SF. Kudos to the folks for arch...Show More