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Who Gets What?Mirrorindy.org, A Young, Comprehensive, Free Source of Local NewsAriana Beedie is Community Journalism Director of Mirror Indy, a non profit news gathering organization, readily available at Mirrorindy.org, and in easy-to-read emails every week. In this conversation we cover its history as well as philosophical issues about journalism itself.2025-06-2525 min
PLAY LISTPawpaw EditionJennifer Delgadillo is off on a cool art adventure in Michigan, so this is Amanda Kingsbury, filling in. In this week’s Play List, we are on the lookout for two things: The elusive pawpaw fruit known as the “Indiana banana” and the real history of country music in Indianapolis. Plus, Ebony Chappel has me thinking thoughts about … fictional postal worker Cliff Clavin??? (Thanks, Ebony.) And Ariana Beedie takes us back to her childhood on eight wheels. Get more Indianapolis arts and culture coverage at MirrorIndy.org.2024-09-1805 minPLAY LISTNew month, new you editionWe have a cause for celebration: Rapper Reckless Rhymacide was our first reader to submit a memory for our Time Machine section. Did you know you can send your arts & culture scene memories to Ariana Beedie at arianna.beedie@mirrorindy.org? All you have to do is include a photo with 3-4 sentences.And, because the Indiana Fever is playing the Los Angeles Sparks, we also resurfaced our WNBA Culture Journal from Mirror Indy’s BCC months (before Caitlin Clark). But that’s not all! Mirror Indy’s staff shares what films, books and events they’re...2024-09-0407 min
PLAY LISTSpecial: Meet Jane Sun Kim, the female force behind ChreeceChreece is coming up this weekend, so we're excited to share this special interview with festival director Jane Sun Kim. Before Jane Sun Kim started taking photos at the Chreece hip-hop festival in Fountain Square in 2018, her plan was to become a doctor. Now, six years later, she helps make Chreece possible as the festival’s director. Mirror Indy's Ariana Beedie and Breanna Cooper speak with Sun Kim about her favorite local place to dance, her vision to make Naptown hip-hop more inclusive, and her journey from chemistry student to pulling off one of Indy’s larg...2024-08-2119 min
Small Studio Signal BoostA top 5 from FAF collective co-creator Ariana BeedieCo-host Melissa Davis interviews FAF Collective co-creator Ariana Beedie about her top 5 favorite songs. Sharlene interviews three DJs from Club Plex, an artistic group that features many of Indy’s most talented and up and coming DJs. We also listen to clips from our weekly, local music playlist.2023-09-1800 min
Small Studio Signal BoostChantel Massey’s top 5 feel good songsContributor Ariana Beedie of FAF Collective asks Indianapolis poet and educator Chantel Massey about her top 5 feel good songs and Mina Keohane plays an exclusive performance of an unreleased song for us.2023-04-2500 min
Make/Shift MagicCommunity and Spiritual Practice with Ariana BeedieAriana Beedie is co-founder of Face a Face Collective, an online publication promoting marginalized voices in the Indy community. She is also co-owner of the Hoy Polloy Art Gallery and founder of Naptown Tarot Club, where we met.
Ari & I discuss how to maintain community during social distancing, giving yourself grace in your spiritual practice, her favorite tarot decks, and issues of representation and cultural appropriation in spirituality.
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Cultural ManifestoLonnie LesterKyle speaks with Indiana R&B legend Lonnie Lester, also a conversation with Ariana Beedie of FAF Collective, who will share her thoughts on the aborted Rock Against Racism festival.2017-10-1800 min
Cultural ManifestoMusic Journalist Ariana BeedieHost Kyle Long speaks with music journalist Ariana Beedie about her new local music and culture media platform FAF Collective. We also discuss her past work for AfroPunk, and her current involvement with the local Black Lives Matter affiliate Indy 10. Plus music picks from Ariana, and kyle spins local tracks from Phil Ranelin and Clint Breeze w/ John Stamps.2016-09-2300 min