Representing John McCain

Around Town's Melinda Arndt interviews Fairfield Arts and Convention Center's Stephen Sondheim Broadway actor Stephen DeRosa, who stars in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."

Listen to this colorful character describe his life in theater and his impressions of Fairfield, Iowa.

the universe is unfolding
our masters are retired
playing golf on courses
above the ganges
the world is spinning
morning still comes
on the button
round the clock, so..
the first 45/50 minutes
tonite
are from the album
birdsong go quotient
release B.E.#00013
on beautiful eternal
this is an open call to remix
that album
in order to make a new album of remixes
if you're interested
and wish to acquire the soundfiles contact me: obviousworld@live.com - myspace.com/obviousworldsoundstage
check it out tonight at 10pm [central time]
100.1 lp KRUU fm
KRUUfm.com
peace

James Moore discusses art and loss with local painter Suzanne Stryker, who was the target of art thieves twice right here in Fairfield.

Her story was featured in the Des Moines Register and picked up by the Associated Press.

She shares her thoughts and reflections on Planet Erstwild at 3pm CST

[Click on the picture to go to Suzanne's website.]

Former Fairfielder Meghan Dowd will join Monica and Caroline on Writers' Voicesthis Monday Jan 28 at 8 am. Meghan has been working in LA as a script coordinator and writing assistant for television shows such as Big Shots (currently on ABC), Reunion, Haunted and Laguna Beach: The Real OC. She's back in Fairfield on a break due to the writers' strike.

Tune in to hear Meghan decribe what she calls a "great job, we get to joke around all day and tell crazy stories, and eventually we have a workable storyline for an episode."

Janice Peterson talks about Human Design with Ava Kennedy.

For more information: www.jovianarchive.com

MAKING GREAT FOOD HAPPEN IN IOWA

Great Taste 7-8 PM Wednesday

Special Guest in the Studio-Wendy Wasserman

Wendy Wasserman
Before she became the publisher of Edible Iowa River Valley,
Wendy lived in Tokyo, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, New York and Hawaii,
and her passport now requires extra pages from all her international
travel. She finds Iowa in some respects one of the most mysterious
places she has have ever resided. She knows the territory is full of
culinary surprises and delicious stories and is excited to discover
them for the readers of Edible Iowa River Valley.

But there's more--the studio will abound with the smells of Kathy's cooking and we'll talk to some local food heroes!

Monica
and Caroline welcome psychologist and teacher Dr. Laurel Parnell,
author of "Tapping In:  A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing
Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation" to Writers' Voices.  Learn
about resource tapping and its development by practitioners of EMDR
(Eye Movement Desensitation and Reprocessing) healing therapies.

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This show is NOT for the faint of heart. It is a truly deep journey into the most abstract and profound realms of electronic music. It is a jaunt into a space and time that reflects the direction music is taking as we fly into the ultra_future. 2012 may very well need a soundtrack, and these artists and their music could be the candidates for that task.
Others who enjoy the sublime abstraction of the concepts of stress-release or impending earth changes could possibly discover the music's ties to physiologically empowering rhythms that exist in indigenous cultures and traditions; modalities which are meant to LIFT YOU UP and BRING YOU THROUGH blocks in creativity and consciousness in order to reveal a higher state of awareness.  read more »

On February 5th, my Great Teacher passed on into Mahasamadhi. His presence, his effort, his attention, his love, his devotion and his teachings have forever impacted the face of planet Earth. Personally, I have been enmeshed in Transcendental Meditation [TM] since just about the time I was born.
I attended courses with my Mom and I began meditating with a walking mantra and later moved on into the more advanced techniques. As a high school student @ Maharishi Upper School in Fairfield I spent my time rebelling against the dogma of the TM Movement, and then at the University of Iowa I began to explore consciousness via music, light and art...Raving and electronic music became power tools which needed juice and Transcendental Meditation was the obvious choice for me.  read more »

FEEL THE FUTURE
AMAZING TIMES
OLD MAN PEACE

[free form art mixes]

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Former Fairfielder Galen Saturley speaks with Writers' Voices host Monica Hadley about his offerings in Blue Tree Publishing's Portrait of a Restaurant series (www.thebluetree.com). These beautiful books break new ground by combining

art photography and recipes, focusing on the best restaurants in a specific town. Galen recently published Portrait of a Restaurant: Cambridge and is working on two more books in the series.

Writer's Voices airs Friday at 1pm and is rebroadcast Monday morning at 8 am.

Former Fairfielder James Tipton will be the featured guest on Writers' Voices with Monica and Caroline this Friday at 1 pm (rebroadcast Monday at 8 am).

Tipton will discuss his recently published historical novel "Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revoluion," based on the life of William Wordsworth's French lover.

What about this woman, a footnote in literary history, inspired 15 years of research and writing?

Author and executive coach Susan Wilson joins Monica and Caroline on Writers' Voices Friday Jan 18 at 1 pm and Monday Jan 21 at 8 am. Susan is CEO of Executive Strategies (www.execstrategies.com), working with high-performance companies and individuals. She is the author of "Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule," "Transformational Leadership," "Magnetic Leadership" and more. She also contributed to "Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul" and "Intimate Moments with God." Susan uses her flair for storytelling to enhance her coaching work.

Plus, her coauthor on some of the books is Caroline's daughter-in-law, Deanne Herr.

Join us this week on Writers' Voices for another informative and entertaining interview.

This Friday at 1 pm and Monday at 8 am, Writers' Voices with Monica and Caroline welcomes Mt. Pleasant author and speaker Susan Klopfer. Ms. Klopfer, an award-winning journalist and formerly an acquisitions and development editor for Prentice Hall, is the author of "Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisted," which follows the history of African Americans and their struggle for civil rights in the Mississippi Delta region.

Ms. Klopfer's prior publications include "The Emmett Till Book," and a number of computer how-to books. Her speaking topics include "There is a Book Inside You - How to Get It Out" and "How to Market Your Book and Services on the Internet."

Join us this week on Writers Voices for another stimulating conversation about books and writing.

Join Monica and special guest host Paul Gandy as they welcome former Fairfield resident Jessica Hawthorne-Castro to Writers' Voices.

Hawthorne-Castro was formerly a successful television literary agent for Hollywood's Endeavor Agency, representing writers, directors and producers for television and feature films. In this capacity, she assisted the creators of several top-rated TV programs, such as Entourage, The Office, Heroes, 24, and Law and Order. Jessica has since joined forces with her father, Tim Hawthorne, as the next generation of Hawthorne Direct, a Fairfield-based full-service television advertising agency.

Listen in Friday at 1pm or Monday at 8am as Jessica explains why "the writer" rules in television, how the internet is changing the rules of the game, and what it takes to make it as a writer in Hollywood.

This sunday's show will begin with my newest drum n' bass song "Holy Mesina" which is an interstellar ode to the beatified and nearly cannonized saint, Antonia Mesina. It was written with full flurry on Wednesday February 27th 2008 and hits all the highs and lows with 3 movements during its 7 minute duration. From there the show will dip and dive into various Obvious World compositions spanning the entire map of conscious creation. No two songs will be alike and your attention span will NOT be tested. Instead this is a journey that I've been wanting to take with you for quite some time, a journey of creativity, an expedition of levity and curiosity full of color and emotion.  read more »

Stephe Rommel and I began djing together in art installation settings in January of 1993. At that time, I had just returned from the University of Iowa and he was attending M.I.U., fresh out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. His choice to meditate and to learn more about consciousness through Transcendental Meditation was interesting to me because I grew up meditating and rebelling against the dogma of the community, whereas he embraced it and made it his own.

His reality and background were curiously different than mine, and his style of djing and selecting music were unlike anything I had experienced before. His ear for psychedelic beauty in music and sound was unparalleled by other dj's I had known or interacted with prior to that point.  read more »

Fairfield artist/poet Elaine Duncan discusses creativity, breaking boundaries, and  her uncommon book, "Feathered Space."   (See www.featheredspace.com)

 Children's writer and writing teacher Cheryl Fusco Johnson describes the joys of attending the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival - see http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/.  This will be Cheryl's 21st year teaching at the festival.

This week's guest, Deborah Madison, is the founding chef of the renowned restaurant Greens and is the author of "Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets" and half a dozen other vegetarian cookbooks.

She is active in the Slow Food movement, and is on the board of the Seed Savers Exchange and The Southwest Grassfed Livestock Association. Deborah writes for culinate.com and gourmet.com, and has contributed to Cooking Light, Williams Sonoma's Taste, Vegetarian Times, Gourmet, Food and Wine, Bon Appetit, Garden Design, Fine Cooking, Organic Style, The LA Times, Orion, and others.  read more »

On Planet Erstwild, James interviews some amazing people:

2pm- Baton Rouge-based bluesman extraordinaire Larry Garner who plays the Morning Star Friday April 18.

A world-class talent and a world-class man, Garner discusses his recent European tour, his new release Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, a recent heart attack and his love for the cultural landscape in Fairfield.

The Téka Band was on a tour in the Midwest and the Magyar Mix crew caught up with them in Bloomington, Indiana where they were giving a concert closely followed by a Hungarian folk "dance-house" streching well into the night (or was it the morning already ??? ) as part of the 28th György Ránki Symposium by the Indiana University on "Folk Music Revival and the Dance-House Movement in Hungary".

This is an interview in Hungarian with Pál Havasréti, Beatrix Tárnoki and Csaba Ökrös recorded after the last day's dance workshop at the Indiana University.

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A Magyar Mix műsor Téka együttessel készített interjúja az indianai egyetemen megrendezett "Újjászülető népzene és a táncház mozgalom" szimpózium alkalmából - magyar nyelven

A felvételen Havasréti Pál, Tárnoki Beatrix és Ökrös Csaba hallható.

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Monica Hadley interviews funsmith Bernie DeKoven, author of The Well-Played Game and Junkyard Sports, who was a part of Junkfest, this year's Youth Arts Festival.

This Friday on Planet Erstwild at 3pm, James Moore interviews Professor Norman Finkelstein about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Professor Finkelstein has written several books on the subject including The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah.

His scholarly research has been praised by Noam Chomsky, among others. Though his tenure was denied at DePaul University last year after an organized effort to discredit his work by detractors, which the school says played no part in its decision, he retired and in a settlement the university officially declared him a great scholar and good teacher. He recently spoke at Grinnell University.  read more »

Shanta Small, formerly of Fairfield, is currently the Associate Director of Publicity
and Marketing at Tarcher/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc.
She has worked with both adult and children's book authors, including
Judy Collins (The Seven T's), Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way), Martha
Frankel (Hats & Eyeglasses), Carl Hiaasen (Flush), Markus Zusak
(The Book Thief), and John Feinstein (Last Shot).

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They tell me that April is National Poetry Month, so help celebrate this momentous occasion by tuning into Writers' Voices Monday at 8 am as Caroline and Monica interview Fairfield poets Rustin Larson and Matthew McLeod.

We'll be talking about the role of poetry in America in the 21st
century, what motivates these poets, and more. Plus, we'll get to hear
some great poems!

Fridays at 1pm CST Rebroadcast Mondays at 8am

Geoff Muldaur and Dick DeAngelis at KRUU-FM

Sunday, May 18th at 10:30 am CST tune in for Mary Swander. (She brought her banjo!)

Mary's Swander's most recent work is a forthcoming book of poetry entitled The Girls on the Roof (Turning
Point Press, 2009). This long narrative poem is the story of a mother
and daughter stuck on top of the roof of catfish dive on the banks of
the Mississippi River for three days during the 1993 flood. There, they
discover they’ve both had an affair with the same man.  read more »

Tune in May 4th, 10:30 am CT as Suzanne Frischkorn pays a visit to the haunted studio (via phone call). Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of five chapbooks, most recently American Flamingo, (2008), and Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver for the Aldrich Poetry Award (2005).

Lit Windowpane, her first full-length book, will be released by
Main Street Rag Press in autumn, 2008. Her poems have recently
appeared, or are forthcoming in Ecotone, Indiana Review, Diode, No Tell Motel, MiPOesias, Salt Flats Annual, and the anthology Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems, part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Series (Knopf, 2007)

From 2001 to 2005 she served as an editor for Samsära Quarterly. She is the recipient of a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.

Sunday, June 1st at 10:30 am CT, worship and adore Maureen Alsop. Maureen is the author of Apparition Wren, published by Main Street Rag in 2007.

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Muralist Ella Yates, who has been commisioned by ArtLife Society to create a Fairfield mural, talks with Planet Erstwild's James Moore about her background, her commision and her worldwide murals. She is an engaging and colorful artist, not to mention an adept on the 8-string ukelele.

[Click on the picture to go to Ella's website.]

On June the 5th, I am starting a series of shows concentrating on the German band Grobschnitt. Part of this will be a three-hour interview that I had with Eroc. Eroc was Drummer and creative Mastermind of Grobschnitt from the beginning in 1970 untill 1983. In 1983 he left the band at a time when he had achieved everything he wished for as a performing Artist. Since his departure from Grobschnitt he is concentrating on the technicial aspects as a successfull producer in the eighties and since the
nineties as a high profile expert for mastering. He remains as one of the most reputed protagonists of the German and the international musicscene and I regard myself very fortunate for the opportunity to have this long and in depth conversation about his career in general and Grobschnitt in particular.

So join me for this exceptional month-long series of shows about the most unique and wonderfull among all the German bands and come to know one of the most gifted musicians ever to come out of Germany.  read more »