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Radio Radio: On Downtown Boxing Club, for Metro Connection

Chris Klimek

Trainer Dave White

Trainer Dave White

The thermostat at Downtown Boxing Club read 43 degrees -- Fahrenheit -- the Sunday afternoon I spent reporting this story for Metro Connection. It felt strange to be in a boxing gym and not be moving around. I've wanted to go train at this place for years; a couple of the guys I train with off and on have told me good things. Anyway, I'd better get on it: Downtown Boxing Club will have to move this year, for the third time in its 15-year existence.

You can hear the piece here. I was sorry to have to lose the part where trainer Dave White says that to land a punch you have to be quick enough to catch a penny.

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categories podcasts, Radio
tags Metro Connection, boxing, Dave White, Downtown Boxing Club

Radio Radio: On Donald Tillery, for Metro Connection

Chris Klimek

I have a story on today's episode of Metro Connection about Donald Tillery, a DC music legend who played with the Soul Searchers for 15 years. He's a fascinating man, and I hope I'll be writing about him again at much greater length this year. You can hear the piece here.

My thanks to DC music historians Eli Meir Kaplan and Kevin Coombes. Eli suggested the story, and Kevin provided insight as well as the promo shot of the Soul Searchers. Eli profiles figures from the city's soul scene on his blog, Soul 51. Kevin's site, DC Soul Recordings, is also indispensable.

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categories Radio, podcasts
tags Metro Connection, The Soul Searchers, Donald Tillery, Chuck Brown, Eli Meir Kaplan, Kevin Coombes

Radio, the Final Frontier, or To Go With Some Reasonable Measure of Boldness Where I Myself Have Not Personally Managed, Entirely, to Go Before

Chris Klimek

My first radio story will be broadcast today. You can listen to it here right now. The process of assembling and editing it was not all that much different from making these. Although in this case I had expert help -- WAMU managing producer Tara Boyle -- to make the piece sound better. The piece is about the starship Enterprise. That is, the impressively large, now-49-year-old model that appeared in every episode of Star Trek, 30 years before computer graphics became Hollywood's defacto visual effects methodology.

I initially imagined this segment as a Daily Show-style news package wherein I would feign indignation that an artifact as significant as the civilization-seeking, boldly-going Enterprise rates a spot only in the basement of the National Air & Space Museum. (Apparently they also have some spacecraft there that have actually flown in space.) That approach proved to a be little ambitious for my first time out of the gate.

I haven't spent enough time with the various spinoff series to get much of a read on them, but original-flavor Kirk-Spock-McCoy Star Trek is a thing I love. My favorite formal thing about the story is that I managed to use, chronologically, music from three eras of Trek: Alexander Courage's 1966 theme for TV series, two snippets of James Horner's score for The Wrath of Khan from 1982, and finally, Michael Giacchino's theme from the 2009 Trek reboot directed by J.J. Abrams.

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categories Radio, podcasts, audio
tags Metro Connection, Star Trek, space, Jim Garvin, Margaret Weitekamp, National Air & Space Museum