Party Line – Oscars Edition

Thursday
There’s finally an easy way to see some Oscar-nominated films that we common folk usually don’t get our hands on, and you can see them all in one place. The Cable Car Cinema is screening some films from the more indie Oscar nomination categories. Tonight, they’ll be showing films from the Short Animation category. Screening [...]

The Brief, 03/08/2010: Week In Review

Here’s Quyen Ngo with this week’s top news stories in your Week in Review.
Obama mentions Central Falls Firings
Rhode Island is Most Liberal
Jobless rate remains unchanged
But, US House passes Jobs bill
Good evening, I’m Quyen Ngo and here are some highlight stories of this past week.
At the start of the week, President Obama mentioned the [...]

YouTube Tuesday: One of the Best Music Videos of All Time Edition

Hello, and welcome to YouTube Tuesday, WBRU’s weekly roundup of the best in online videos! Seriously, have you seen some of the crap that passes for entertainment on the web? We can do so much better than that. Your friends at WBRU have done all the heavy lifting to make sure you never have to [...]

This Week in Our Stupid World: AIG Angry! AIG Smash! Edition

As the first week of March comes to its merciful conclusion let’s round up what happened in our stupid world, from Snuggies to soap:
The Cleveland Cavalier’s held “Snuggie Night” in an attempt to break the Guinness Book World Record for “most people wearing fleece blankets or a single color at a single location.”  Or, as [...]

Party Line: Meta-Museum and a Drunkard’s Prayer

Friday
Downtown Providence will be turned into a museum for two days. Westminster Stories: The Museum of Westminster Street dissects life on this funky hip urban block.  Museum-like labels on buildings, statues, people, indoors and outdoors will tell visitors about what it’s like to be a part of the downtown scene, with the information collected from [...]

Tearin’ It Off, Back From Hiatus! Test Your Boundaries… Or Don’t.

Megan and myself are back with a new podcast of Tearin’ It Off with Megan and Mirage and ready to talk about all your questions and concerns relating to sex. This time, it’s sexual boundaries we’re interested in, and all the consensual and non-consensual behavior related to it.
So if you’ve ever been in an uncomfortable [...]

The Brief, 03/01/2010: Not Quite News

Tonight, Stan laments the persistence of rock star geezers in a segment we like to call Not Quite News with Stan Sundel.

The Super Bowl was a couple of weeks ago. I’m not the world’s biggest football fan. Frankly, I usually watch the game for the commercials – or more importantly, the half [...]

The Brief: 01/03/2010: On The Record with Ian Donnis

When Patrick Kennedy dropped out of his race for reelection, he turned Rhode Island politics on its head. The announcement set off a ripple effect of politicians jumping from one race to the next, and offices at every level of government up for grabs. WBRU’s Emily Jones sat down with WRNI Political Reporter Ian Donnis [...]

YouTube Tuesday: Cars and Octopus Porn Edition

Hello, and welcome to YouTube Tuesday, WBRU’s weekly roundup of the best in online videos. We’re here because the intertubes are clogged with so much crap that someone has to search for the gold.
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Number 5: Auto-Tune the News presents “Turtle Fence”
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Make no mistake, we [...]

This Week In Our Stupid World: 2/22-2/28

This week in our stupid, stupid world:
A leaked memo from the British Ministry of “Defence” revealed their official strategy of destroying evidence of reported UFO sightings. The report states that the UFO specific hotline is diverting too much staff away from activities valuable to the “defence” of Britain (that is not the joke). Hiding [...]