WMNF Station News

WMNF welcomes our new station manager

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Good Evening All, On behalf of the Board of Directors I am pleased to announce that Sydney White has been selected as the WMNF Station Manager. The Board began the process to find a new manager at the end of last year and we feel very fortunate to have found someone with Mr. White’s experience and commitment to Public Radio. Mr. White is a strategic thinker with excellent fundraising skills and he is committed to community outreach. Mr. White comes to WMNF with 30 plus years in public media, including ten years in public television, sixteen years with National Public Radio and three years at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His professional history includes various positions including Stations Project Manager, Marketing and Stations Relations, both for NPR, Director of Marketing and Development at WHMM-TV, and twelve years producing and hosting programs for community radio station WPFW-FM, in Washington D.C. Mr. White graduated from the State University of New York with a B.S. in general studies and mathematics. He earned his M.A. in mass communications research and a PhD in telecommunications policy & administration from Howard University in Washington D.C. Mr. White is expected to join us June 18, 2012. The Board of Directors will help coordinate a get together at the station to welcome Sydney, as he prefers to be called. Details will soon follow. Please join the Board of Directors in welcoming Sydney to the WMNF family and to the Tampa area. Letty Valdes President Board of Directors

Tropical Heatwave Raffle Winning Numbers from 5/12/12

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**Tropical Heatwave Raffle Winning Numbers ~ Thanks for your donation to WMNF 88.5FM Community Radio... All who participated are WINNERS, but here's who gets the prizes:**

**WMNF BENEFIT PASS for 2** ~ 613531
CD BLOCK ~ **613754** ~ **CLAIMED**
Original Painting ~ **614615** ~ **CLAIMED**
Guest HOST Hour ~ **614169** ~ **CLAIMED**
Skipper’s Smokehouse ~ **499575** ~ **CLAIMED**
Aubrey Organics Gift Basket ~ **613752** ~ **CLAIMED**
The Hub Bar Gift Basket ~ **499560** ~ **CLAIMED**
**Your choice of shirts (First come, First PICK)** ~ 614248 & 614230
**WMNF Quilted Autograph Pillow** ~ 614003
Nervous Turkey DVD ~ **613197** ~ **CLAIMED**
**Carole King Book** ~ 613485
**Agate & Cultured Pearl Necklace** ~ 613546
**Bob Dylan Book** ~ 614270
**Bok Tower Gardens** ~ 614821
**Cabot Cheese** ~ 615181
Café Hey ~ **613441** ~ **CLAIMED**
**G-Wiz** ~ 614216
Hot Sauce Basket ~ **613743** ~ **CLAIMED**
**La France** ~ 613517
**Lotus Pond Yoga Classes** ~ 613422
**Louis Del Favero Orchids** 613317
Old Tampa Book Company ~ **614625** ~ **CLAIMED**
**Sherry’s Yesterdaze** ~ 614200
**Straz Center Tickets** ~ 613556
**Tampa Museum of Art** ~ 614183

**All winning tickets MUST BE PRESENTED to claim prize...** You may call 813-238-8001 ext.100 or stop by the station, Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm and ask for Miss Julie. Or mail your ticket to 1210 E Dr MLK Jr Blvd, Tampa, FL 33603. **Mailing costs will fall to the winner, if applicable**
Again, thank you to all for your support!

Peace ~ Miss Julie

WMNF has a new Ticket Outlet in Downtown St Petersburg!!

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You can pick up your Heatwave tickets for $30 in advance at **Star Booty Salon**, located at 681 Central Avenue, St Petersburg, Florida 33701... Give a call to be sure they still have them (or they're open) 727-895-7827

Save the Date: WMNF Golf Outing

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The WMNF Golf Outing will be September 29 at 11:30am, at Rogers Park. Registration forms and more information coming soon!

Brigid Ochshorn, DIY diplomat

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WMNF DJ Brigid Ochshorn is celebrated by Creative Loafing. **The musician, DJ and catalyst pays it forward. by Julie Garisto** Brigid Ochshorn has a big heart. Not only is she wearing a palm-sized, heart-shaped red pendant the day of our interview — picked out, she says, "because it reminded me of the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz" — she's also known for an open-hearted attitude toward music and musicians that has made her an integral part of the local experimental music scene. Her ingenuity and hard work have won her respect in a variety of roles. A WMNF-88.5 FM DJ, she organizes WMNF's indie-experimental music showcases and is an accomplished engineer and musician herself. Her next WMNF event — at Mojo's Books & Music on Dec. 18 — features No Milk, Ochshorn's solo project. In her act, she sings, manipulates sequenced sounds on analog equipment and incorporates random instrumentation. Also on the lineup: Austin's OS OVNI, Tampa band Alien House and DJ BCR, aka Brian Repetto of the Dark Esquire and Dumbwaiters, a friend and frequent collaborator. "I try to be all-inclusive," Ochshorn says. "I believe in diversity and social justice. I collaborate and perform with people who have a story to tell and who are 100 percent into their music." On her late night/early morning WMNF show, Freedom of Choice (2-4 a.m. Tuesday), you can hear a range of under-the-radar tunes from past and present — and some music that sounds like it was channeled from the future. "I grew up listening to a smorgasbord of taped records," the 29-year-old Tampa native says with a laugh. Recent selections have included the Smiths, the Rolling Stones, Italian disco band Decadance, Afrika Bambaata and local experimental acts from Tampa's Cephia's Treat label. Each show is archived at WMNF.org. A WMNF "Radioactivist" since 2005, Ochshorn has helped rejuvenate the counter-culture music offerings of the community-funded station, doing her part to revamp its reputation as the last bastion for aging hippies. Has WMNF has been supportive of her efforts? "Very much, from the very beginning," she says emphatically, adding that the station has added many of the bands she's worked with to its music library and has been generous in promoting her live showcases. But WMNF doesn't always get the credit it deserves, says Ochshorn, so her goal is to solidify connections between the station and the venues where she and her fellow musicians play. Moving among the Bay area's people and places comes naturally to Ochshorn. She grew up in South Tampa during "the corporate infusion" and "homogenization" of her neighborhood, she says. These changes influenced her DIY ethos and love of local culture. "It's not as big a deal to me as I've gotten older," she says. A happy compromise: She works at the organic gourmet emporium Whole Foods. Ochshorn's self-possessed originality and old-fashioned standards combine to make her the iconoclast she is today, whether she's cutting out letters for fliers she designs by hand or fiddling with old gadgets onstage (she forgoes laptops and anything digital). She learned to play piano by ear and grew up writing what she describes as silly songs. Her dear old dad (literally, he's 91) is a survivor of the New York beat generation and friend of the late Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Her mother, Kathleen Ochshorn, is an English professor at the University of Tampa and has written for the St. Petersburg Times and Creative Loafing. Other traditions beat strong in the Ochshorn family. "I grew up with four generations of women playing Scrabble together," she says. Says collaborator Repetto: "Brigid Ochshorn has come a long way — the DIY queen of the scene — always working to better herself, musically and otherwise, and as a tireless supporter of the more esoteric/out-there folks in the music world."