Huffington Post blogger, Jeff Rivera is an entertainment reporter. He is the award-winning novelist of Forever My Lady and has written for School Library Journal Teen, GalleyCat, Mediabistro and many other publications. He has also been featured in Publishers Weekly, Miami Herald, Boston Globe and NPR. For more upcoming celebrity interviews, please visit his site: http://www.JeffRivera.com

The Boston Globe's baseball beat writers and sports writers get together once a week to discuss the Red Sox and other top major league baseball stories. Daigo Fujiwara is the host. To get the Boston Globe's full baseball and Red Sox coverage, visit http://boston.com/redsox

Radio Free Nintendo is the flagship podcast of Nintendo World Report. The name is inspired by Radio Free Europe, maybe pretentiously so, but we do believe strongly in presenting independent viewpoints on gaming culture and industry. For instance, while RFN is always focused on Nintendo topics, the podcast crew are all multi-platform gamers who frequently discuss content not available on any Nintendo platform. If nothing else, we believe this broad view gives us even more perspective on what we love (and what drives us crazy) about Nintendo and its games. Likewise, while we obviously adore Nintendo and have been playing their systems and games for many years, we are freely critical of the company and encourage our listeners to be so as well. We believe that thoughtful analysis and intelligent discussion can increase everyone's enjoyment of video games. Since mid-2006, we bring you a new weekly episode of Radio Free Nintendo, full of game impressions, feature discussions, retrospectives on classic games, and answers to our listeners' questions. It's all completely free and easily accessible with our podcast feeds and weekly articles. On this page, you'll also find a complete archive RFN episodes, going back to the very first conversations between the show's co-founders, Mike Sklens and Evan Burchfield. Other regular members of the podcast, past and present, include Karl Castaneda, Stan Ferguson, Jonathan Metts, Jon Lindemann, James Jones, and Greg Leahy. Many other Nintendo World Report staff members have appeared on RFN from time to time. Special guests from outside our ranks have included Billy Berghammer (founder of NWR), Chris Kohler (Wired's Game|Life), Mike Krahulik (Penny Arcade's Gabe), George Harrison (Nintendo of America), Keiichi Yano (iNiS), and Jeff Kalles (Penny Arcade). Also, RFN's first recording with a live audience is Radio Free Nintendo: A Live Nintendo Podcast for Grown-Ups at the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) East in Boston, March 26, 2010. Over the years, many listeners have asked how we make RFN. Since the crew is scattered all over the world, we rely on two free programs: Skype and Audacity. We connect in an online conference call via Skype, and each person records his own voice (not the entire conversation) with Audacity. When recording is finished, we each upload the individual audio tracks to an FTP server. That's when the real work begins. The podcast editor mixes all of the voices together, using designated audio cues and attentive care to synchronize the voices so that they sound even more natural and cohesive than the original Skype call. The result, we hope, is a finished product that sounds like we could have all been sitting in the same room, just having a chat over a few beers. In truth, we rarely see each other in person, and some of us have in fact never met at all. In tribute to the immense effort and talent required to produce this show, the podcast editor is credited every week in the episode article.

Looking for the latest Ford news? Whether it’s an amazing sale or a new model being unveiled, Jeff Klein, General Sales Manager at Thomas Ford of Beverly, MA is your source for everything Ford-related. These podcasts have a decidedly green tilt, as Jeff discusses the latest efforts by Ford to merge performance and efficiency to create more environmentally friendly vehicles. Jeff’s been in the industry for 40 years, and is more than happy to share his Ford expertise with those in the Greater Boston area and beyond. Topics include the new hybrid and electric models, Ford’s innovative new EcoBoost engine and the arrival of the 40 mpg 2011 Fiesta. So tune in and learn why it’s never been a better time to be a Ford owner.

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, "boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once". (Summary by Alan Chant and Wikipedia)

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell, then its assistant editor, for his favorable review of Innocents Abroad. When Howells became editor a few years later, The Atlantic Monthly began serializing many of Twain's works, among them his non-fiction masterpiece, Life on the Mississippi. In My Mark Twain, Howells pens a literary memoir that includes such fascinating scenes as their meetings with former president Ulysses Grant who was then writing the classic autobiography that Twain would underwrite in the largest publishing deal until that time. But it is also notable for its affectionate descriptions of his friend's family life during Howell's many visits to the Twain residences in Hartford and Stormfield. (Summary by Dennis Sayers).

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1 Mending Wall (00:01:20) The Death of the Hired Man (00:03:45) The Mountain (00:12:20) A Hundred Collars (00:18:14) Part 2 Home Burial (00:00:18) The Black Cottage (00:06:16) Blueberries (00:12:56) A Servant to Servants (00:18:44) Part 3 After Apple-picking (00:00:16) The Code (00:02:16) The Generations of Men (00:08:01) The Housekeeper (00:18:55) Part 4 The Fear (00:00:16) The Self-seeker (00:05:27) The Wood-pile (00:16:35) Good Hours (00:18:47)

Maturin Murray Ballou was the author of dozens of books, chiefly centered around his extensive sea travel. He was deputy navy-agent in the Boston Custom House and circumnavigated in 1882, collecting material for several travel accounts and various nautical romances, amongst which The Sea-Witch can be counted. (Summary by Gesine)

1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82 children a modern Western education on scientific secular lines, which earlier missionaries' wives had not provided. Leonowens sent her daughter Avis to school in England, and took her son Louis with her to Bangkok. She succeeded Dan Beach Bradley, an American missionary, as teacher to the Siamese court. Leonowens served at court until 1867, a period of nearly six years, first as a teacher and later as language secretary for the king. Although her position carried great respect and even a degree of political influence, she did not find the terms and conditions of her employment to her satisfaction, and came to be regarded by the king himself as a rather difficult woman. In 1868 Leonowens was on leave for her health in England and had been negotiating a return to the court on better terms when Mongkut fell ill and died. The king mentioned Leonowens and her son in his will, though they did not receive the legacy. The new monarch, fifteen-year-old Chulalongkorn, who succeeded his father, wrote Leonowens a warm letter of thanks for her services. By 1869 Leonowens was in New York, and began contributing travel articles to a Boston journal, Atlantic Monthly, including 'The Favorite of the Harem', reviewed by the New York Times as 'an Eastern love story, having apparently a strong basis of truth'.She expanded her articles into two volumes of memoirs, beginning with The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which earned her immediate fame but also brought charges of sensationalism. In her writing she casts a critical eye over court life; the account is not always a flattering one, and has become the subject of controversy in Thailand; she has also been accused of exaggerating her influence with the king.”

Dell Bronson has been reared in Boston by her refined uncle and aunt until, at age 18, she is called home by her father, a coarse tavern owner in Lewiston. As a daughter of the heavenly King, she strives to honor her heavenly Father by wooing her earthly father to Christ and away from rum. Set in the era of the temperance movement of the 1800's. Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name "Pansy." Third in the Ester Ried series. (Summary by TriciaG)