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The Spot 9.4.14 Prescription Drugs, Patti Smith, and How to Be a Girl

Patti Smith

This week on KALW's showcase for the best in public radio podcasts:

Youth Radio Podcast: “Prescription Drug Abuse In College”  Correspondent Cyrus Abusaba explores the lethal trend of recreational prescription pill usage among college students.

Fugitive Waves: “Just Girls -- The Hidden World of Patti Smith & Judy Linn”Patti Smith wasn't just the muse of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the Sixties, she was also muse and model for Judy Linn, an art student and budding photographer in New York.  Judy not only photographed Patti, she had made a little super-8 movies too, as the two young women created a world together.

How to Be a Girl: "Daily Life in the House of Girls"  When he was three years old, Marlo Mack's son told her that he wasn't the boy she thought he was.  Now she's the mother of a happy, confident six-year-old girl, but it took a while to get here.

Thursday at 5:30pm.

Matt Martin was KALW’s general manager from 2006 through 2018. Under his leadership, KALW grew into one of the most productive and innovative stations in public radio. Programs launched at KALW during Matt’s tenure as GM include the award-winning local newsmagazine Crosscurrents, the design podcast 99% Invisible, and the Spanish-language narrative journalism program Radio Ambulante. He helped create the station’s Audio Academy, a year-long program aimed at developing new talents in public radio, and led the first broad-based strategic planning process in the station’s history.