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"Under the Radar with Callie Crossley" looks to alternative presses and community news for stories that are often overlooked by big media outlets. In our roundtable conversation, we aim to examine the small stories before they become the big headlines with contributors in Boston and New England. Learn more about our show on our website: gbhnews.org/utr Check out all the stories in our year-long series, Unbound Pages : gbhnews.org/unboundpages Follow us on X @CallieCrossley and Facebook : facebook.com/UndertheRadarGBH

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Madam CJ Walker And Her 'Hair' Apparent 11.03.2016 20:51

Madam CJ Walker And Her 'Hair' Apparent

On MA Resident Gets All Dolled Up For Bernie Sanders 04.03.2016 18:14

Millions of Americans are sold on Bernie Sanders, but one Bernie Sanders doll is sold out. Professional seamstress Emily Engel is feeling the #bern. She's been offered contracts and toy deal, but she's happy to keep sewing the doll, one stitch at a time, Emily is the creator of the popular handmade doll “Lil Bernie.” First shared on facebook and instagram, the doll went viral. Emily, who had vowed...

Politics Postgame: Super Tuesday, Romney's Speech And The GOP Debate 04.03.2016 39:45

Super Tuesday delivered a supersized win for Donald Trump, and a superb night for Hillary Clinton. The Mass Politics Profs join us to discuss those wins and the insuperable way forward for their opponents. Plus we dig into the nuances of Romney's anti-endorsement and Thursday's GOP debate.

For ALS Patients, Life Can Change At The Blink Of An Eye 19.02.2016 20:11

For ALS Patients, Life Can Change At The Blink Of An Eye

It's A Wash: Beaches, and Shoveling on Regional Under the Radar 29.01.2016 38:10

It's A Wash: Beaches, and Shoveling on Regional Under the Radar

Snow Joke: Old Farmer's Almanac's Predictions For Winter 13.12.2015 58:00

Snow Joke: Old Farmer's Almanac's Predictions For Winter

What's Cookin', Book Lookin' 06.12.2015 57:59

What's Cookin', Book Lookin'

Finding 'Joy' In Genius 09.10.2015 57:57

Finding 'Joy' In Genius

Reporter Roundup and new Bostonians! 02.10.2015 58:00

Reporter Roundup and new Bostonians!

Lights! Gaming! Parks! 25.09.2015 57:59

Lights! Gaming! Parks!

Farm To Table, Identity Politics, And A Future for The Salt Institute 20.09.2015 58:00

Callie speaks with reporters to roundup local news and sits down with the executive director of Salt Institute, the President of the Maine College of Art, and an alum.

NH Round Up And A New Comedy Major 11.09.2015 58:03

Callie Crossley is joined by New Hampshire insiders Arnie Arnesen and Pat Griffin. Then later, she discusses Emerson College's new comedy major with a professor, a student, and a working comic.

Plum Island and Plum Treats 12.07.2015 58:00

Plum Island and Plum Treats

How To Fix The MBTA: With Former State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson 16.02.2015 20:08

A Dianne Wilkerson refresher: she represented the Second Suffolk District from 1993 to 2008. The Second Suffolk includes Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, and parts of Mattapan, Dorchester, Mission Hill, and Chinatown. In 2008, she was charged with accepting bribes for liquor licensing and a development project in Roxbury. Wilkerson served three and a half years of jail time for bribery, and was released fr...

The State's Failing Schools, The City's Wunderkinds 09.02.2015 13:06

Julio Ricardo Varela sits in for Callie Crossley. The fight to keep the failing Holyoke School System in the city’s power and the so-called new wunderkinds at Boston’s City Hall. Digital life has not only changed the way we interact with our government, but the way government interacts with us- Julio talks with Boston’s first Chief Digital Officer.

John Barros Spins Dudley Square, Boston Olympics 20.01.2015 8:44

Boston's chief of economic development, John Barros, on the renovation of Dudley Square in Roxbury and his spin on the Boston Olympics