Contributors
Because we're always looking for new ideas, we are looking for another regular contributor or two, as well as guest contributors. If either sounds appealing to you, please visit join us or contribute to find out more. Thanks for your interest in Culture-Cast.org.
The Administrator
Scheduling Whip
admin@culture-cast.org
The anonymous site administrator. His basic job is to crack the whip and get our schedule in order, but he will occasionally disappear into his undisclosed location for top-secret nerd stuff. He's also the guy who finds all of the apps we recommend for your use. When he's not geeking on his three computers (a Windoze box, a Linux box, and a middle-aged iMac), he likes to write cryptic autobiographical blurbs for websites such as this one.
Chris
Writer, Producer, Editor
chris@culture-cast.org
In addition to writing and producing the main segment of our podcast, Chris is also our content editor. He's also a graduate student, husband, and father. Most of our site submissions go directly to his inbox, and as he's a busy guy, we hope you understand if it takes a while for him to get to it. He will. When he's not studying, writing, playing with his daughter, or working around the house, he likes to wander in the woods with his dog.
Christian
Caspernicus, "Hey-Science-Guy," Science Editor
cfcasper@culture-cast.org
Christian acts as the science editor/commentator, maintaining the blog Caspernicus and occasionally conversing in the podcast. He is our unofficial expert on scientific matters, because he earned an MS in Chemistry before he turned to the dark side. Now a graduate student studying communication in science at a large state university in the South, when he finds the time he enjoys music, museums, and transportation involving blades or runners attached to his feet.
Recent Artists & Contributors
C. Glen Williams was born in Ft Ord, CA and spent most of his early life in Bristol, VA. He wrote his first song shortly after he learned his third chord on the guitar and hasn't stopped writing since. His folk music draws from a wide array of influences, including everybody from Woody Guthrie to Alan Sherman and on to James McMurtry. In concert he blends new and traditional songs with traditional and personal storytelling. In addition to his folk music, Glen has been known to dabble in producing hip-hop and electronic music from time to time.
Learn more about Williams and his music at his Associated Content "Content Producer" page [ Link ], or follow the results of the almighty Google search by clicking [here]. Williams's songs appeared on Episode 8 of the podcast, available in iPod enhanced format [ here ] or .mp3 format [ here ].
David Kilpatrick
The talented David Kilpatrick lives in Kelso, Scotland. Several of his tracks are in the highest ranks of acoustic guitar music on Soundclick.com. He currently organizes the Kelso Folk Club sessions on Friday Nights at the Cobbles Inn, Bowmont Street, Kelso - all musicians and singers are welcome from 9:30 pm.
Asked about his current projects, he tells us, "I'm not doing much apart from strictly local things right now - past years I have done Edinburgh Festival Fringe gigs and things like that, but for personal and work reasons, I am limiting what I do. Was on Radio Scotland last Saturday in a live broadcast but it was only for our region (Borders) and it was a cover - Dick Gaughan's Both Sides the Tweed, a very popular song here."
To view some rather jokey YouTube videos made in his office, visit his profile on YouTube. David appeared on Episode 7 of the Culture-Cast.
Slim
Slim is a band/soloist based in Oakland, CA. Confusing, isn't it? Not really. The frontman, Slim, also has a band that goes by the same name. He writes the songs - but this album isn't Barry Manilow (get it?) by a long shot. The music you'll find on Interstate Medicine is good, rock with outstanding musicianship. The album definitely has a southwest flavor - the first track we play in the podcast, "Cortez Pizzaro," among the most flavored - but they all tell a great story to a well crafted tune. He currently has a new project, RadioNowhere, which you can check out at http://www.radionowhere.net/. We definitely recommend taking a look.
You can purchase Interstate Medicine from CD Baby.com.
Allison Crowe
This twenty five year old folk singer from Nanalmo, British Columbia has an absolutely beautiful voice that lingers long after the music has ended. She has had two one hour television specials broadcast in her native Canada. Her music is best described as eclectic, drawing influences from rock, pop, soul, blues, and jazz, and it draws you in, makes you a part of what can only be named a musical experience, dynamic yet simple. In the June 11 episode, we feature four tracks from her 2004 album, Secrets.
Crowe maintains a site at http://www.allisoncrowe.com. Her albums, including both Secrets and This Little Bird, her newest, are available for purchase through Amazon.com.
Christopher Salerno
Christopher Salerno was born and raised in NJ, and received his MFA from Bennington College, VT. His first book, Whirligig, was published by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House, July 2006. Other poems can be found in Verse, The Colorado Review, Jubilat, Jacket, The Tiny, The New Hampshire Review, MiPOesias, Agni online, Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, Free Verse, Cannibal, Electronic Poetry Review, Lit, River City, Forklift Ohio, Tar River Poetry, Spinning Jenny, GoodFoot, and in the anthologies, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel and the forthcoming, Outside Voices (2008). In the June 11 episode, we feature his reading of "The End of Winter."
Currently, he teaches in the English Department at North Carolina State University. He blogs at http://christophersalerno.blogspot.com. You can purchase his volume, Whirligig, from Amazon.com.
Thomas David Lisk
Thomas David Lisk is a poet and a professor of English at North Carolina State University. He has been published in dozens of literary magazines and newspapers in addition to two previous volumes of poetry and several articles of a more scholarly nature. Dr. Lisk's new volume of poetry, These Beautiful Limits is a thought-provoking exploration of the wonder of the English language. Lisk's work as a professor shines through, his love of language exhibited through his playfulness and experimentation. His work displays the influence of Whitman, Stevens, and Williams, while retaining its own unique character. We were fortunate to have him read four selections from These Beautiful Limits for two recent podcast episodes.
Lisk maintains a blog, "Oilcloth and Linoleum," at http://www.oilclothlinoleum.blogspot.com.
You can purchase These Beautiful Limits in paperback, cloth, or e-book form from the publisher, Parlor Press here [Link opens in new window].
Copies of his last collection, Aroma Terrapin (2003), are available from Amazon.com [opens new window].
Rob Costlow
Three Musical selections on the April 6, 2007 podcast [Link] came from Rob Costlow's Woods of Chaos album. Costlow is a solo pianist whose music provides an excellent escape from the everyday, creating landscapes of sound, with a passion, precision, and creativity that are rarely seen in one artist. Our producer, Chris, himself a pianist of fifteen years, told Evan, our music man, that Costlow has "an incredible touch, deft, strong, and enviable," and that "listening to a piano usually makes him want to sit at the keyboard himself, but this makes [him] jealous - it's not reproducible." If this doesn't convince you, take a listen for yourself. We use two full tracks as well as selections from others in the podcast episode, and Jamendo.com [Link opens new window] lets you listen to the whole album for no cost.
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Costlow, an Independent Music Awards [IMA] finalist for 2006, maintains a site at http://robcostlow.com/.
You can purchase his music on iTunes as well as Amazon.com.
