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Learning about issues on the news is great, but to truly understand, you have to listen to the real people behind the sound bites. Sharing local stories is the raison d’être of Hear Arizona, a grant-funded podcast that covers topics like aging, accessibility and housing, and offers solutions and resources.

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Photo by Maggie Fearnow   Stories have a way of taking on lives of their own. Writer Dawson Fearnow has learned this time and again as a journalist specializing in historical crime writing. “That’s why I only write about dead criminals,” Fearnow says. “Especially after two DEA agents showed up at my front door holding a copy of a story I wrote about a local designer drug kingpin.”  PHOENIX has been fortunate to have Fearnow write a number of true-crime pieces for our history column, centered...

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If your Mondays need a little neo-surrealism, local artist Pete Petrisko (aka Media Petros) has a bizarre and colorful tale to tell you, in the form of a three-hour “sound art and storytelling audio drama podcast” broken up into six weekly 30-minute chapters. The series podcast, titled “That And How It All Happened,” is a multi-layered story inspired by pulp science fiction and the experimental radio series Columbia Workshop, which broadcast from 1936 to 1943....