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Watch & Listen to The Show w/ Rod Milam from Saturday, October 10, 2015

Watch & Listen to The Show w/ Rod Milam from Saturday, October 10, 2015

This week on “The Show with Milam” here’s the music that I spun for you. You can watch and listen to the “action” until about 11am CDT on Sunday, October 11, 2015 by clicking here and following us on Periscope at http://periscope.tv/ucitykid88 Time Artist Song Album 10:05:00 Prince Raspberry Beret Around The World In A Day 10:08:00 Lenny Kravitz Are you gonna go my way Are You Gonna Go My Way…

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St. Louis TV News Asleep At The Switch During State Of Emergency Call? (COMMENTARY)

St. Louis TV News Asleep At The Switch During State Of Emergency Call? (COMMENTARY) #Ferguson #ChannelZero @stlpublicradio @StLouisAmerican

Six pictures of media outlets in St. Louis, Missouri on the afternoon of Monday, August 10, 2015, hours after a State of Emergency was called by the St. Louis County Executive, Steve Stenger. The top 5 are local terrestrial TV stations showing regular programming (Jerry Springer, Dr. Phil, Ellen Degeneres [a re-run], Family Feud, and Hot Bench), and the bottom picture is a screen capture from…

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Musician John Bolduan In-Studio Guest from Bilbao, Spain Today!

Musician John Bolduan In-Studio Guest from Bilbao, Spain Today on "The Show with Rod Milam" from noon to 2pm! http://streamer2.umsl.edu #

We’re very happy to announce that we’re scheduled to have native U. City musician John Bolduan as a guest, in-studio, today for the next episode of “The Show with Rod Milam“.

Musician John Bolduan as he performed at The Focal Point in March of 2014. (Photo by © Rod Milam and seen as part of The University City Musician Documentary Project)

John is a singer, guitarist, and song writer that…

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Playlist for Episode 1, Volume 2 of "The Show with Rod Milam" - Original Broadcast: Wednesday, August 27, 2014

1st episode of "The Show with Rod Milam" Check the playlist & featured artists from The University City Musician Documentary Project

Yesterday, was the official kickoff for Volume 2 of “The Show with Rod Milam”, and the debut on “The U“, student run radio on campus of the University of Missouri – St. Louis.  It was great to have this show back on-the-air after more than a 17 year absence.

A lot of fun was had and I just plain loved it!  and I reprised several of the segments of the program that were mainstays back in the…

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Listen to the final test run for "The Show with Rod Milam" from Noon to 2pm CDT (-5GMT) today! Doing music from the 80s! http://streamer2.umsl.edu   Hey everyone! Rod here. Everyone around the world has heard a lot about St. Louis in the news over the past week and a half because of the issues going on in #Ferguson, just north and west of this picture of the city's Gateway Arch (the US' largest national monument).

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How To Listen to "The Show with Rod Milam" Around The World (Wednesdays from Noon to 2:00pm CDT (GMT -5))

How To Listen to “The Show with Rod Milam” Around The World (Wednesdays from Noon to 2:00pm CDT (GMT -5))

http://streamer2.umsl.edu

Hey all! Rod here…

I’m still in the “pre-season” section of getting the reboot of “The Show with Rod Milam” up and going online from the studios of “The U – at the University of Missouri-St. Louis”. That means for the next couple of Wednesday afternoons, I’ll be on the air with the program doing some sample versions of the program.

I’ll see how these new studios work…

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The Widespread Spreading of Unconfirmed "News" By The Masses Can Easily Lead To Less Real Information

The Widespread Spreading of Unconfirmed “News” By The Masses Can Easily Lead To Less Real Information

Hello all.  This wasn’t the plan for my first post as host of a coming relaunch of “The Show with Rod Milam” online via http://umslradio.com but I feel that circumstances demand a clear statement from me and how I plan  on conducting my program in general when it comes to the information that I will give and the news that I broadcast around the world.

This is basically a repost of what I wrote on…

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Five Days On - University City April 2014 Tornado (1), University City Trees And Homes (0)

Five Days On – University City April 2014 Tornado (1), University City Trees And Homes (0)

This old tree at the intersection of McKnight Road and Spoon Drive, the epicenter of the tornado destruction in the early morning hours of April 3, 2014, is still laying in its twisted state 5 days later on the western edge of the Ruth Park public golf course.

(All Photography © Rod Milam)

Five days after the rude 5:26am wake up call that the western section of University City, Missouri received…

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April Roars In For The City Of Lions

April Roars In For The City Of Lions

(l) A University City neighborhood during a hail storm at about 1:30pm on April 2, 2014, and (r) the aftermath of a probable tornado that passed through U. City in a different section of town at 5:20am on April 3rd.

The weather in March of 2014 in St. Louis/U. City may have come in like a lion and gone out like a lamb, but April has shown that it refuses to be upstaged in the drama department by…

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Reaction to the Egyptian Coup D'État In Astoria, Queens, New York #1

Local NYC Media Comes To The Neighborhood (Too Early)

A picture of the far end of “Little Cairo” on…

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A first time, 65 minute, drive by visiting of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was nothing but good and tasty!

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20 Songs You Can't Even Believe Are 20 Years Old By Pat Pemberton, rollingstone.com

Beck, Lenny Kravitz, the Bee Girl and more

Remem­ber that danc­ing bee girl from Blind Melon's "No Rain" video? She's 30. That won't mean much to incom­ing col­lege fresh­men, who weren't even alive dur­ing Kurt Cobain's life­time. But for those…

Yeah...this is more than a little depressing. #TimeFlies #NoWay #TooFast #MiddleAge

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This certainly one way to deal with a health dept inspection that wasn’t quite what you hoped for. #Brooklyn #CoverYourTracks

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You know you've lived in New York City a while when you pass by a poster of a super long running show that you've thought about seeing since many years before you even moved here more than a decade ago and still haven't gone to see it, BUT you've met and had drinks with more than 2 people that have been in the cast of the show and honestly figure that's probably as close as you'll ever get to seeing the program in person. #TheBlueManGroupIsStillRunning?

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In Astoria, Queens, even the dogs do the whole, "I'm gonna look outside my window to watch the world go by," New York City thing.

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KWMU's Bob McCabe Leaving The Control Booth After 20+ Years

Bob McCabe looking pensive, knowledgeable, relaxed, and totally at home in “air control” at the…

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Singers from Uptown, Amish from Pennsylvania, or Shoppers from Queens...No Matter. In NYC, You'll Need The Subway

It’s a miraculously not-so-disastrous subway weekend here in New York. The remnants of Hurricane…

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