Now Playing: September 2025

Our September 2025 edition of Now Playing spotlights everything from Beaver engineering to Lizzie No!

Kimaya Diggs

Lately I’ve been listening to Lizzie No, who’s one of the best storytellers, fighters, and heartful voices out there. Their perspective on what it means to be a working artist has changed my life, and their uncompromising commitment to the vision of a better future that requires building things from scratch with each other is a North Star to me.

Max Wheeler

I just watched a new nature documentary called The American Southwest that centers on the life of the Colorado River. It had everything you want in a film: Bull Elk sexual drama, admirable Beaver engineering, the hero's journey of a juvenile Condor... and, most jarringly, footage of the once-lush river delta where the Colorado used to meet the sea. Thanks to damming and the unreasonable allotment terms of the Colorado River Compact, the delta is now a cracked, arid, bereft expanse. The river no longer completes its trek to the ocean. Anyways, five out of five stars—definitely worth a watch on the big screen, and then you can contact the Bureau of Reclamation, which is set to renegotiate the Compact next year, and learn about intertribal movement to grant legal personhood to the river.