Writers' Voices with Monica and Caroline welcomes Iowans Diane Glass and Deb Engle, coauthors of "Tending Your Inner Garden: A notebook of personal transformation and renewal."

Tune in Friday September 6 at 1pm or Monday at 8am to hear about this program of spirituality and creativity just for women, based on the cycles of Nature as a model of change. "Tending Your Inner Garden" encourages women to use journaling, art and meditation to get in touch with their inner desires and find fulfillment.  read more »

James Moore interviews Yashar Vasef and Clyde Cleveland on Planet Erstwild this Friday September 5th.

2pm
Yashar was born in Tehran after the Islamic revolution. During the infamous 1988 'war of the cities' (Baghdad/Tehran) in which Tehran was bombarded by Russian and American missiles supplied to Iraq, his parents fled Iran in hopes of a brighter future for their children. So they ended up in Istanbul, Turkey as refugees of war and about two years later received asylum in the United States of America.
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Amy Biancolli, film critic for the Houston Chronicle will be interviewed by co-hosts Bruce Miller and Chris Busch.

Starting Friday in Fairfield is Mongol, Oscar-nominated in 2007 for Best Foreign Language film (subtitled). The Filmosophers would like to inform the many film fans not aware of this "stunning historical epic of the life and legend of Genghis Khan."

"... a stirring and majestic film — a work that dramatizes, romanticizes,
heroizes and humanizes one of history's towering figures." ~ Amy
Biancolli, Houston Chronicle  read more »

Sunday at 10:30 am central (and Monday at 1:30 pm central) get ready from some girl fights behind the pancake house!

Poet Dorianne Laux rumbles into the haunted studio (via phone call) and shakes things up with her unstoppable verse.

Dorianne Laux was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1952. She worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, a maid, and a donut holer before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988.

Laux is the author of Facts About the Moon (W. W. Norton 2005), which was the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Her other collections include Smoke (BOA Editions, 2000); What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Awake (1990), which was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Critics Award for Poetry.  read more »

Join Simon Brooks for his rock lobster grab bag

known as Odds & Ends

every Thursday at 11pm

RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER is the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights organization he helped found in 1977. For over three decades, Rabbi Cooper has overseen the Wiesenthal Center’s international social agenda ranging from worldwide anti-semitism, Nazi war crimes and Restitution, to extremist groups and tolerance education. Rabbi Cooper'S editorials have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Le Monde and the Japan Times. www.wiesenthal.com

AWARD WINNING TEENAGE CLASSICAL PIANISTS REBECCA WEN, MEIGEN YU, AND JOHN WEN ALONG WITH THEIR TEACHER FEILIMN LIN. John Wen was this year's winner of the Annual Chopin Youth Competition. They will be performing this Saturday Sept 6 at 7:30 pm at the Sondheim Center of the Performing Arts. www.icpianists.com

Hey folks. Join me this Thursday on Crooked Sisters Radio Hour for some music and conversation with live, in-studio guest, Sharon Bousquet. Sharon will be joined by Eric Hurlin who, along with Heather Love, fills out the sound in Sharon's new band Beaucoup Shakti. We'll get to hear some new material from Sharon, fresh off her week-long song-writing fest in Colorado, and hear the latest musical news in her life.

Tune in to Crooked Sisters Radio Hour this Thursday, September 4 from 10 to noon!

In celebration of KRUU's second anniversary during the month of September, DJ Andy Bargerstock (photo left with sometimes co-host Camie Bargerstock) will be producing a series of "BEST of FRINGE TOAST" shows beginning with Volume 1 this week. Over the past two years there have been nearly 100 broadcasts of DJ Andy's picks of exotic tunes from the late 60s to the present. Recently, Andy assembled his favorite tracks from the past two years .... the cream from nearly 2000 tracks played. Oh, this will be schweeeet!  read more »

You want fries with that Brandenburger?

This week the I.W.H. celebrates/desecrates the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in some of its more unusual manifestations, from the lovely (Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin) to the ludicrous (a beatbox version by the Swingle Singers) to the simply peculiar (a piece arranged entirely for harmonicas), plus jazz, rock and who knows what other versions.

Classics crucified for your listening pleasure, only on the Intercranial Whizbang Hour.

Tuesday 9/2/08 8-10 PM

Rebroadcast Saturdays at 12am