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Topical Currents

South Florida's Lip Service: 8 Writers, 8 Stories, in 8 Minutes

By Joseph Cooper,
Richard Ives
Published December 16, 2014 at 1:00 PM EST
www.facebook.com/LipServiceMiami
Alejandro Santiago Photography — with Asia Samson, Betty Jo Buro, Jan Becker, Andrea Askowitz, Esther Kenniff and David New.";

12/16/14 -  Tuesday's Topical Currents is a unique hour -- live readings of highly-personal true stories by South Florida's “Lip Service” group. 

Credit www.lipservicestories.com
Lip service is created by Andrea Askowitz and Esther Martinez

The award-winning lip service now in its eighth year.  And anyone can submit a true story, not just locals.  One  nun flew to Miami from Guatemala to read her 8-minute composition.  Others have been pole-dancers, fed-ex drivers, in-the-shower singers and grandads. But lip service isn’t haphazard.  There’s editing and lively rehearsals before the performances. Lip Service marks its 8 year anniversary with readings from "Badass, Lip Service: True Stories - The Double Album" by Andrea Askowitz, Esther Martinez-Kenniff, and Nicholas Garnett.  Topical Currents and lip service, Tuesday at 1pm.

 

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Joseph Cooper
WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.
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Richard Ives
Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.
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