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5/31/13 10:00am |
Dirt Work and "Children of the Wind" - Anne Strainchamps heads outdoors with two women who've built their lives around the outdoors: one maintains wilderness trails in national parks; the other is a windsurfer who just made an award-winning film about three children's journey from a poor fishing community to world champion freestyle windsurfers.
Guest(s): Christine Byl , Daphne Schmon |
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5/31/13 9:00am |
Hacker- and Makerspaces - What do you do when the garage workshop isn't enough, or do-it-yourself tinkering fails? More and more people turn to hacker- or makerspaces - communal workshops that provide the space, expertise and support to build things or incubate ideas. Anne Strainchamps talks with two hackerspace creators.
Guest(s): Chris Meyer , James Carlson |
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5/24/13 10:00pm |
Katie Dahl - Singer-songwriter Katie Dahl joins Anne Strainchamps to share her songs of land, lakes and the Upper Midwest's people, her battles to keep chain restaurants out, and the lows and highs that love brings.
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5/24/13 10:00am |
Katie Dahl - Singer-songwriter Katie Dahl joins Anne Strainchamps to share her songs of land, lakes and the Upper Midwest's people, her battles to keep chain restaurants out, and the lows and highs that love brings. Here's a video clip from the show: http://wpr.net/r/?1128
Guest(s): Katie Dahl |
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5/24/13 9:00am |
DEROS Vietnam and "Learning to Stay" - As we head into Memorial Day weekend, Anne Strainchamps and guests talk about the great literature that can emerge from war and about the therapeutic power of writing. And later, John Scalzi joins us to talk about his new sci-fi novel, The Human Division. http://wpr.net/r/?1127
Guest(s): Erin Celello |
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5/17/13 10:00pm |
Farmacology and Foraging - Bugs and dirt are good for you, and cattle-rearing can teach us a lot about raising healthy kids. So says a family doctor who visited farms across the US, exploring the connection between how we care for our bodies and how we grow our food. And, a foraging expert tells Anne Strainchamps which wild plants are good to eat this spring.
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5/17/13 10:00am |
Farmacology and Foraging - Bugs and dirt are good for you, and cattle-rearing can teach us a lot about raising healthy kids. So says a family doctor who visited farms across the US, exploring the connection between how we care for our bodies and how we grow our food. And, a foraging expert tells Anne Strainchamps which wild plants are good to eat this spring. (The DNR requests the following note to listeners: "Watercress is an invasive plant and although it is not yet regulated (but will be next year) the plant roots should not be left.")
Guest(s): Daphne Miller , Sam Thayer |
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5/17/13 9:00am |
Errol Morris: McNamara, Rumsfeld, the Fog of Truth - Filmmaker Errol Morris receives an honorary degree from the UW-Madison this week. Anne Strainchamps asks the Oscar award-winning director of "The Fog of War" and "A Thin Blue Line" about his UW days in the turbulent 60's and his new project on Donald Rumsfeld. And, a film buff shares his short list of great documentaries to watch this weekend.
Guest(s): Errol Morris , Charles Monroe-Kane |
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5/17/13 (All day) |
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5/10/13 10:00pm |
Red Moon - 45 North launches its very own book club,"45 North Reads". The book club will showcase Wisconsin and Midwestern novelists. We're kicking-off with Ben Percy's new novel, "Red Moon": Think George Orwell crossed with werewolves. The owner of Boswell Book Company joins us later for the latest on exciting Spring reads.
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5/10/13 10:00am |
Red Moon - 45 North launches its very own book club,"45 North Reads". The book club will showcase Wisconsin and Midwestern novelists. We're kicking-off with Ben Percy's new novel, "Red Moon": Think George Orwell crossed with werewolves. The owner of Boswell Book Company joins us later for the latest on exciting Spring reads.
Guest(s): Benjamin Percy |
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5/10/13 9:00am |
Bicycling Present and Past - Calling all cyclists! In honor of "Bike to Work Week" Anne Strainchamps and guests explore bicycling past and present. Did you know that Wisconsin has a rich bicycle history that continues to inspire cycling enthusiasts today? Why do you bike?
Guest(s): Dave Cieslewicz , Jesse Gant |
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5/3/13 10:00pm |
Dean Bakopoulos and Katie Burns Storylogue - A novelist and a singer/songwriter joins Anne Strainchamps to tell the story of Blizzard, a lonely maintenance worker at a rural Wisconsin theater, who falls for a New York actress in the course of a sultry (and slapstick) Midwestern summer. Part concert, part literary reading, the show earned rave reviews across southern Wisconsin last spring.
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5/3/13 10:00am |
Dean Bakopoulos and Katie Burns Storylogue - A novelist and a singer/songwriter join Anne Strainchamps to tell the story of Blizzard, a lonely maintenance worker at a rural Wisconsin theater, who falls for a New York actress in the course of a sultry (and slapstick) Midwestern summer. Part concert, part literary reading, the show earned rave reviews across southern Wisconsin last spring.
Guest(s): Dean Bakopoulos , Katie Burns |
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5/3/13 9:00am |
Zoe Keating - Zoe Keating is a cellist with a lot of pluck. Acting as her own agent, tour manager, producer and publisher, Zoe tells Anne Strainchamps how to orchestrate a "slow, sustainable, career" as a musician-mother, how to crowd-source a tour, and why she writes odes to iTunes.
A little later in the hour: Anne talks with a jazz composer and two-time Grammy winner about her new album.
Guest(s): Zoe Keating , Maria Schneider |
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4/26/13 10:00pm |
Vintage Tomorrows - Goggles and gears and steam-spewing machines... Anne Strainchamps and her guests explore the clockwork universe of Steampunk, where high-tech meets the Victorian era. Is Steampunk all about fashion and design or do you see it as a counter-culture movement?
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4/26/13 10:00am |
Vintage Tomorrows - Goggles and gears and steam-spewing machines... Anne Strainchamps and her guests explore the clockwork universe of Steampunk, where high-tech meets the Victorian era. Is Steampunk all about fashion and design or do you see it as a counter-culture movement?
Guest(s): James Carrott , Brian Johnson |
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4/26/13 9:00am |
Poetry, Food, Life - Customers at some Milwaukee restaurants are getting something extra with their meals: poetry. A new "Eat Local, Read Local" campaign serves up local poems along with soup and salad. Anne Strainchamps and two prominent poets explore the intersection of poetry and daily life.
Guest(s): Max Garland , Liam Callahan , Steven Rodriguez |
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4/19/13 10:00pm |
Bug Music - David Rothenberg is known for making music with whales and birds. He now turns to insects, exploring how bugs may have given humans a sense of rhythm. Anne Strainchamps asks him about the connections between animal and human music.
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4/19/13 10:00am |
Bug Music - David Rothenberg is known for making music with whales and birds. He now turns to insects, exploring how bugs may have given humans a sense of rhythm. Anne Strainchamps asks him about the connections between animal and human music.
Guest(s): David Rothenberg |
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