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Hot Seat: Ira Glass
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TimeOut New York | 4/30/2008
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Just in time for both a live staging of This American Life on
Thursday 1 (which will be beamed to movie theaters around the country)
and the television show’s second-season premiere on Sunday 4, we talked
to Glass about some of America’s favorite things: pizza, politics and
professional wrestling.
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'American Life' at the movies
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Chicago Sun-Times | 4/25/2008
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Glass' popular public radio show, This American Life, has entered the
American consciousness in a big way with live tours, a Showtime series
and podcasts. And now, thanks to inspiration from the Metropolitan
Opera's series of live cinema simulcasts, it's heading to the big
screen for a one-night-only event.
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Empathy Is What Makes Us Sane: Ira Glass @ Lisner Auditorium
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DCist | 4/15/2008
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Twelve-and-a-half years after it first began airing locally on Chicago’s WBEZ, This American Life has an estimated 1.7
million listeners tuning in to hear the show on one of the more than
500 public radio stations that carry it each weekend.
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'This American Life' on the Big Screen
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Associated Press | 4/4/2008
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Public radio's This American Life expanded into TV a year ago. Now
fans are invited to get a sneak peek at its new Showtime season
straight from host Ira Glass, who's appearing live on the big screens
of 300 theaters next month.
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On the airs
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Style Weekly | 1/30/2008
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This American Life host Ira Glass
packages the dramedy of human life for the incompatible masses of radio
and television.
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Chicago Public Radio's 'This American Life' duPont Award winner
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Chicago Tribune | 12/17/2007
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Chicago Public Radio's This American Life was honored for a 2008 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, selected
for Which One of These is not Like the Other, a reflective piece on
the discrimination a New Jersey Muslim family faced.
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Ira Glass: 'Radio stories and other stories'
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Arizona Republic | 11/29/2007
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Fame comes with a price - even if you're a star in so dignified an arena as public radio. Take Ira Glass, the bespectacled host of public radio's This American Life, which serves up long-form narratives about ordinary people with out-of-the-ordinary stories.
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Four docus make cut for IDA honors
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The Hollywood Reporter | 11/8/2007
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The International Documentary Assn. will present special awards to When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Sputnik Mania, This American Life and The Supreme Court.
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