Today on the XPN Morning Show we present the last of a series of features prepared by University of Pennsylvania students as a final project in a course taught by five XPN staffers this past semester on writing about arts and culture for radio. Students were given basics in values of public radio, writing for [...]

In her new song Better Version of Me, Fiona Apple mentions the Rubicon. It’s a river in northern Italy which Julius Caesar crossed in 49 B.C., which was seen as an act of war. Therefore, the word has come to mean a boundary or line that when crossed commits you irrevocably. Fiona sings: The nickel [...]

Forgot to post this on Friday. Robert Drake was in for Bob Bumbera on the XPN Morning Show, and it was a slow news day! Robert did a story about a study (who funds these studies??) showing that people are likely to pour more liquor into a short, squat highball glass than into a tall [...]

On the XPN Morning Show traffic.com reporter Lauren Valle kept mentioning a jam on Contention Lane. After speculating about how living on that street would affect your outlook, I decided to make contentious our Word of the Day. It’s an adjective derived from Latin which means likely to cause discord or having a tendency to [...]

If you missed Jamnation this past Monday, I played some tunes from some of the best “jam-band” records that came out in 2005 that ranked high on my list. Albums and titles include:Animal Liberation Orchestra – Fly Between FallsSteve Kimock Band – EudemonicSoulive – BreakoutNickel Creek – Why Should The Fire Die?Old School Freight Train [...]