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Share Your Stories Open Mic
cowley about 4 days ago
This Wednesday, January 7 at 7 p.m. Tre Amici Coffee, the Ybor City Museum, the Artists & Writers Group and WMNF are hosting a free open mic for people to share stories.
If StoryCorps got you all worked up about telling real stories, this is a cha
... read this postProgram Guide Changes
Laura Taylor about 4 days ago
Hi, Laura Taylor, here...Development Director AND editor of the WMNF Program Guide we've reversioned for online and renamed The Link, WMNF's eGuide. We are no longer mass printing and mailing The Link...you can download it here.In it you'll find a
... read this postVote Now for All Souls Listeners' Choice
Tags: ALL SOULS SPOTLIGHT, Listener's Choice
airstudio about 5 days ago
You still have time to choose what our next Special Spotlight on All Souls will be in JANUARY. Here are the choices:
1 - Soul Divas
2 - Soul Men
3 - Blues Divas
4 - Blues Men
GET VOTING!! Either e-mail your choice in by 1/08/08 to me at scotte@wmnf.org
... read this postAll Souls Host at Tampa Morning Market
Tags: DJ, ALL SOULS, Scott Elliott, Shopping
airstudio about 5 days ago
That's right!!!
WMNF's own Scott Elliott (aka DJ Vertigo), host of ALL SOULS (Fridays from 2-4 PM) - will being spinning an array of eclectic music for your shopping pleasure at the new Tampa Morning Market in downtown Tampa.
Join us tomorrow, Fri
... read this postSix young girls killed in Gaza are related to Tampa family
Seán Kinane about 7 days ago
An 18-year-old Tampa man who has dozens of extended family members in the Gaza Strip learned Sunday that six of his nieces died in an Israeli airstrike. Yusuf Dabus said the girls were killed in a strike on a Mosque near their home.
Dabus was b
... read this postCalls From Home
cowley about 7 days ago
Selections from the grassroots radio project Calls From Home will air on this Sunday's Critical Times program from 8-9 a.m. on Sunday, or available on our WMNF's archives.
Calls From Homebroadcasts the voices of U.S. prisoners and their families.
... read this postBush's Positive Impact on the Economy
Tags: Bush
Matt Cowley about 11 days ago
In case you've been thinking that the Bush Administration has somehow had a deleterious effect on the economy, consider the positive effect Bush has had on one small business:
... read this postRamazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has
What are your favorite holiday films?
Rob Lorei about 12 days ago
What are your favorite holiday films for this time of year?
On the second half of the Radioactivity call-in program on 12?24 I asked listeners for recommendations for holiday films with a social conscience. I started the segment playing some sound
... read this postWhat do you want to see in a transit plan for Tampa Bay?
Tags: TBARTA
Seán Kinane about 18 days ago
TBARTA has come up with three draft transit plans for the region. Soon they will combine them into one "hybrid" plan.
Which of these do you prefer - or are there aspects of any of these that you like? Post a response!
Listen to my story about today'
... read this postWMNF Most Played CDs during 2008
Randy Wynne about 18 days ago
WMNF 88.5 Tampa : Top 50 Most Played "CDs during 2008
1) Radiohead - In Rainbows - ATO
2) Various Artists: Cheatin’ Heart: Tales of Lies and Love - BAAMO
3) Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal - Back Porch
4) Have Gun, Will Travel - Casting
... read this postAvett Brothers rescheduled (again)
Randy Wynne about 19 days ago
WMNF's concert with the Avett Brothers, postponed once because of a baby, has to be rescheduled again because they are going on tour with the Dave Matthews Band during the spring. The concert will likely be rescheduled for some time in July. We wi
... read this postStoryCorps in Ybor City
cowley about 20 days ago
The StoryCorps team is busy recording Tampa Bay voices and lots of WMNF listeners in Ybor City right now. They told us they've had a wonderful week of recording, so in the very near future you'll be able to hear stories recorded in Ybor right here
... read this postcd of the week
Tags: cd of the week, music
Mike Bagley about 20 days ago
This week’s cd of the week is from crystal stilts called “Alight of Night”
From the Pitchfork review:
... read this postThe Crystal Stilts are moody-sounding guys who make fabulous stripped-down garage-pop. Their mix-and-match post-punk ditties manage to sound b
Vote: All Souls Listener's Choice
Matt Cowley about 23 days ago
You get to choose what our next Special Spotlight on All Souls will be in JANUARY. Here are the choices:
1 - Soul Divas
2 - Soul Men
3 - Blues Divas
4 - Blues Men
Please vote soon!! Either e-mail your choice in by 12/26/08 to me at scotte@wmnf.org or c
... read this postHuman Rights speech by Eckerd College's William Felice
Seán Kinane about 24 days ago
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 60 years ago this week by the United Nations in 1948.
On Friday, the 35th annual Tampa/Hillsborough County Human Rights Award breakfast was held in west Tampa.
Listen to the full speech on human
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