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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans 

FEATURED NON-FICTION From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers […]

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The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future

FEATURED NON-FICTION The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her life, […]

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The Grapes of Wrath

FEATURED FICTION The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated […]

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Be a Fairy Godmother, and Grant Us Three Wishes

                                          WISH NUMBER 1:  Ever imagined you had a magic wand and could just close your eyes, wave it around, and suddenly everything is made more beautiful?  Wouldn't you love to be able to turn less into more and convert pumpkins into carriages, mice into footmen, and rags into ballgowns? Well, on this special day, you can (figuratively) do something magical.  Today you have the power to be a fairy […]

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The Scuttleblog: A Local Publication

READ ALL ABOUT IT :    Along with the comprehensive daily schedule that Rachel posts every day on our Facebook wall, we also have a generic paper schedule listing the times and names of all of our programs.  It doesn't state which midday short story or monthly magazine is being aired on any particular day, it only states that one will be broadcast at the time listed.  This is usually […]

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Losing All Sorts of Saints

    Since the last blog entry was all about change and how we are affected by it, in both good ways and in bad, I thought I'd explore the topic of change a little further and examine the subject of loss.  "Loss" was one of the topics given to the KIPP Renaissance students last year for their poetry project at WRBH, and it was fascinating and certainly heartbreaking to read […]

todayMarch 25, 2014 6

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Be Not Afraid

        "Hello, my name is Jackie, and I used to be afraid of the iPad."If a twelve step program existed for people who are addicted to the familiar, I'd be attending meetings every night.   Along with my gray hair and reading glasses, I've come to realize that what gives away my advancing age most of all is my attitude of avoidance when I have to quickly learn something new.  I'm generally […]

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The Impartial Messenger

It's ten pm, the dinner dishes are done, and you've just settled down with a bowl of ice cream to watch the evening news.  Angela Hill looks radiant wearing her rose blouse behind the desk (stay with me here--yes, I know she has retired, but don't you WISH you could still have her to read the news to you while you dig into some Haagen Daas  French vanilla?) and she […]

todayFebruary 12, 2014 9

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In the WRBH Gumbo, Fluency is the Roux, Accents are the Okra (plus a message from Rhonda Faye)

RRRRRIIIIINNNNGGG! "Hello, this is WRBH." "Hi, I'm calling because I'm curious about how I can become a volunteer.  I heard about your station from a friend, and since I used to be a disc jockey..." "Have you had experience reading aloud?" "No, but I used to have a radio show where my partner and I did a comedy routine with sound effects and took calls from listeners, and I'm great […]

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WRBH 88.3 FM, Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is the only full-time reading service on the FM dial in the United States. At WRBH, our mission is to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers.

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