April 8th, 2001
April is the cruelest month ... and that's because we've set a perilous challenge for ourselves: American Sign Language poetry -- on the radio. We've got a story about the healing powers of cake. That's always good, right? Also: It's time again for our contest, Five Sounds in Search of an Author.
Caption Contest
Five Sounds in Search of an Author:
Listen carefully
In between these sounds is a story and it's up to you to write it. Once again, The Next Big Thing is inviting your ideas on ways to weave a plot out of seemingly unrelated sounds. Author and Next Big Thing contributor Jesse Green will choose a winner to read his or her story on our show. You'll hear the results next week.
E-mail your stories by Tuesday, April 10, 2001, and remember, the time it takes to read them should come close to the time it takes to hear the sounds (about 30 seconds). Good luck!
What's the next big thing?
Newt Gingrich
Fish and Wildlife Biologist Amy Salveter
Regina Thomashauer, proprietress of Mama Gina's School of Womanly Arts
Hand-made poetry
It's time for New York's People's Poetry Gathering and we've got a rhyme scheme you don't necessarily have to see to believe. Host Dean Olsher tries his hand at translation.
Five Sounds in Search of an Author
Try it! You'll like it!
Let him eat cake
Performer Greg Walloch gets the devil out of his body, among other things. Catch his one-man show "White Disabled Talent" at Joe's Pub on Wednesday, April 11.
Gross Anatomy
How gross is it really? Former first-years from Cornell's Weill Medical College Rajiv Gupta, Michael Stern and Carrie Zinamen fill in our host. They first filled in Meryl Levin, who took photographs for her book, "Anatomy of Anatomy." Produced by Emily Botein.
More about the "Anatomy of Anatomy" at www.thirdrailpress.org.
Lenten Chance
Half Gregorian chant, half middle eastern hymn: It's St. Stephen's Choir from the Island of Hvar off the coast of Croatia. Recorded at Sts. Cyril & Methodius Church in Manhattan. Produced by Jad Abumrad.
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