Ian Coss
@iancoss.bsky.social
Creator of podcasts: The Big Dig, Forever is a Long Time, NEWTS!, Movement with Meklit Hadero
After 20 YEARS of making Xmas albums I’m finally throwing a Xmas CONCERT. 🥁🥁🥁
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
After 20 YEARS of making Xmas albums I’m finally throwing a Xmas CONCERT. 🥁🥁🥁
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
Before the Big Dig in Boston and before the Embarcadero came down in SF…the original highway teardown was here in Portland, OR. Stop #2 on our Highway Teardown Tour!
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Before the Big Dig in Boston and before the Embarcadero came down in SF…the original highway teardown was here in Portland, OR. Stop #2 on our Highway Teardown Tour!
I love interviewing former mayors -- as a category -- they have the best politics stories and no need to hold back any more. Greg Nickels, mayor of Seattle was no exception. Photo from @kuow.org
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I love interviewing former mayors -- as a category -- they have the best politics stories and no need to hold back any more. Greg Nickels, mayor of Seattle was no exception. Photo from @kuow.org
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
Our graphic designer at @wgbh.org described this color as "dirty teal." I think that's now my favorite color. The new art is part of our feed overhaul ahead of the next season...
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Our graphic designer at @wgbh.org described this color as "dirty teal." I think that's now my favorite color. The new art is part of our feed overhaul ahead of the next season...
Down in DC doing interviews for a new WGBH series. This one should be interesting.
July 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Down in DC doing interviews for a new WGBH series. This one should be interesting.
It's a twofer on the Apple homepage today, get it while you can...
June 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's a twofer on the Apple homepage today, get it while you can...
Glad to report that Dawn Hayes has still got it folks!
From our Scratch & Win live show at @wgbh.org last week, photo by Meredith Nierman
From our Scratch & Win live show at @wgbh.org last week, photo by Meredith Nierman
April 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Glad to report that Dawn Hayes has still got it folks!
From our Scratch & Win live show at @wgbh.org last week, photo by Meredith Nierman
From our Scratch & Win live show at @wgbh.org last week, photo by Meredith Nierman
Machine politics was alive and well in the MA state lottery of the 1980s. This week on "Scratch & Win" we go inside the machine.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Machine politics was alive and well in the MA state lottery of the 1980s. This week on "Scratch & Win" we go inside the machine.
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Here we find a podcast in the same list as the Vienna Philharmonic, Moby Dick and the Academy Awards... nymag.com/article/best...
Thanks @nwquah.bsky.social and @nymag.com for repping the medium!
Thanks @nwquah.bsky.social and @nymag.com for repping the medium!
February 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Here we find a podcast in the same list as the Vienna Philharmonic, Moby Dick and the Academy Awards... nymag.com/article/best...
Thanks @nwquah.bsky.social and @nymag.com for repping the medium!
Thanks @nwquah.bsky.social and @nymag.com for repping the medium!
Perhaps you've seen a sign like this where you live?
Find out why in Episode 5 of "Scratch & Win" from @gbhnews.bsky.social
Find out why in Episode 5 of "Scratch & Win" from @gbhnews.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Perhaps you've seen a sign like this where you live?
Find out why in Episode 5 of "Scratch & Win" from @gbhnews.bsky.social
Find out why in Episode 5 of "Scratch & Win" from @gbhnews.bsky.social
In Ep 4, FBI photo specialist Bill Shopperle explains how they tracked the Boston mafia by installing a camera under the hood of a '68 Chevy. The whole rig took six car batteries that had to be changed out every 24hrs, just to capture roughly 1 FPS.
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February 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In Ep 4, FBI photo specialist Bill Shopperle explains how they tracked the Boston mafia by installing a camera under the hood of a '68 Chevy. The whole rig took six car batteries that had to be changed out every 24hrs, just to capture roughly 1 FPS.
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This week on "Scratch & Win," some mob wisdom from Gennaro Angiulo...
"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy." (April 6, 1981)
"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy." (April 6, 1981)
February 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This week on "Scratch & Win," some mob wisdom from Gennaro Angiulo...
"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy." (April 6, 1981)
"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy." (April 6, 1981)
So nice to share the New & Noteworthy section w the excellent Criminal podcast today.
February 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So nice to share the New & Noteworthy section w the excellent Criminal podcast today.
This kind of infrastructure is one way the lottery could challenge the already established mafia numbers game -- which we'll get to in ep 4 on Wednesday...
February 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This kind of infrastructure is one way the lottery could challenge the already established mafia numbers game -- which we'll get to in ep 4 on Wednesday...
Sheila Dubrawski, the lottery staffer you hear in ep 3 of "Scratch & Win," has held onto these betting slips since 1977. You can see this is the "Bettors Copy" that the player held onto and used to claim their prize if they won.
February 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Sheila Dubrawski, the lottery staffer you hear in ep 3 of "Scratch & Win," has held onto these betting slips since 1977. You can see this is the "Bettors Copy" that the player held onto and used to claim their prize if they won.
Crazy that when the original state-run 'Numbers Game' launched in 1976 it was an ALL-PAPER system. So if you filled out one of these slips at a convenience store out in the Berkshire mountains, a physical carbon copy had to be at lottery headquarters in Boston by the time of the drawing at 10:30pm
February 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Crazy that when the original state-run 'Numbers Game' launched in 1976 it was an ALL-PAPER system. So if you filled out one of these slips at a convenience store out in the Berkshire mountains, a physical carbon copy had to be at lottery headquarters in Boston by the time of the drawing at 10:30pm
Thanks Lauren Passell for the kind words this week, and for asking the important question: "Wait, isn’t it kind of weird that Catholics allow BINGO?"
February 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thanks Lauren Passell for the kind words this week, and for asking the important question: "Wait, isn’t it kind of weird that Catholics allow BINGO?"
Just thinking of a time not so long ago when Democrats were the party of patronage and showmanship...
(State Treasurer Bob Crane in 1964)
(State Treasurer Bob Crane in 1964)
February 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just thinking of a time not so long ago when Democrats were the party of patronage and showmanship...
(State Treasurer Bob Crane in 1964)
(State Treasurer Bob Crane in 1964)
Guess I know how to describe our target demo now: Mr. Boston Liquor
January 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Guess I know how to describe our target demo now: Mr. Boston Liquor
In Part 1 of "Scratch & Win": the story of the first scratch ticket, how it changed gambling forever, and how it very nearly turned into a disaster. Plus, a surprise intervention involving a bottle of Fresca...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
In Part 1 of "Scratch & Win": the story of the first scratch ticket, how it changed gambling forever, and how it very nearly turned into a disaster. Plus, a surprise intervention involving a bottle of Fresca...
@gbhnews.bsky.social
@gbhnews.bsky.social