Who is Love & Radio?


Nick van der Kolk
Nick is main brain behind Love & Radio, a freelance radio producer, documentarian, and man about town. His radio career began as the General Manager of Bard College's student-run station, WXBC. His worked has aired on Marketplace, Re:Sound, WGBH Boston, KUOW Seattle, Connecticut Public Radio, and a small community station on an island in the middle of the Bering Sea. He lives in Cambridge, MA with 9 roommates, and when he dances, he dances with commitment.



Adrianne Mathiowetz
Adrianne is the co-creator of Love & Radio, a writer, producer and amateur photographer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She works as the web manager for This American Life and site editor for the Public Radio Exchange. In previous lives, she's garnished noodle dishes, worked behind a jewelry counter, sold one-dollar movie tickets, sent press kits for the circus, played editor-in-chief for a literary magazine, and has been directly responsible for some bad espresso beverages (was fired).



Steve MacLaughlin
Steve is a senior English major at Penn, and currently writing a thesis on the audio recordings of the American poet Robert Creeley. He's also the manager of WQHS.org, Penn's student station, where he hosts a weekly program focusing on sound poetry, field recordings, and the avant-garde. He has a little website here.



Phillip Dmochowski
At age 7, Steve and Phil played on the same township soccer team in Pennsylvania. Steve was very bad at kicking the ball and easily embarrassed. Phil was better at soccer and had a huge prepubescent ego. Steve didn't like Phil. At age 14, they found themselves at the same private Catholic high school. They wound up hanging out together because they didn't know anyone else at school and, living a few blocks from each other, could easily collaborate on assigned projects. Steve had bad acne and Phil was fat. Somehow, perhaps through necessity, they learned to like each other. They became inseparable. Steve's acne cleared, Phil started running track and got skinny, and they wound up cute, tall, and intelligent. Steve and Phil wanted to go to the same college but Phil's SAT score was like 200 points lower and he didn't manage to manage to get into Penn. The separation may have been healthy, people no longer confuse their names, though they do still enjoy playing brothers.

Phil is the assistant director of the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA, an intern at National Public Radio's Car Talk, and studies English at Boston University.