A quick look at featured programs airing this week (7/25 - 8/1):
Tune in to From the Other Side of the Mirror as host John profiles one of the seminal British punk bands who were heavily influenced by American R&B and British mod bands The Who and The Small Faces, ....The Jam. Monday, 7/26, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Lights, Camera, Austin will feature live guest David J. Neff, the creator, cofounder and director of Lights. Camera. Help., who will discuss the film festival devoted to nonprofit and cause-driven films. Host Robert Sims also will review Salt, The Kids Are All Right, and Inception, and give a rundown of the week's events in film. Monday, 7/26, 1:00 p.m - 1:30 p.m.
The current "Texas broadband map" indicates that 3.5 percent of Texas households, approximately 257,000 residences, mostly in rural regions, do not have access to home broadband service. This, says Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, hinders opportunities for business development and access to telemedicine, higher education and e-government. Join Integral Investigations host Tom Friedley and his in-studio guest Luisa Handem Piette - managing director of RuMBA, the Rural Mobile and Broadband Alliance, whose mission is helping rural communities bridge the digital divide between urban, suburban and rural areas. Monday, 7/26, 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Under the X in Texas host Ted Branson welcomes Shotgun Party (left) performing live in studio before their shows this week at the Continental Club and Driskill Hotel. Tuesday, 7/27, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Grammy Award Winners Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines (right) will perform live in-studio and chat about their career and latest CD on A Neighborly Conversation. Wednesday, 7/28, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Join Abigail Mahnke this Wednesday on Inner Views. She'll be interviewing Tish Morgan Mata, who has bipolar illness. At age 9 she began using drugs and alcohol and also made her first suicide attempt. After many years of substance abuse and suicidal depressions, she has found help that works for her and is now off almost all medications and feeling better than ever. Wednesday, July 28, 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
People United hears from Joe Meadors (pictured left) about surviving one attack by the Israeli military as a US Navy signalman aboard the USS Liberty in 1967 and another as a peace activist taking part in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla forty-three years later. Also featured are him and Ann Wright (pictured right), another survivor of the raid on the flotilla, taking questions from Austin residents. Friday, 7/30, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Rick Kendrick will be joined by special guest Alex Coke for a tribute to the saxophonist, bandleader and composer Willem Breuker, who passed away last week in Amsterdam. Breuker was an important figure on the European music scene for more than 40 years. In the mid-1960s he co-founded the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) with Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg, as well as performing with the Globe Unity Orchestra and Gunter Hampel. But he is better known for leading his Kollektief, a band he created in 1974. He established the record label, BVHaast, in the same year. Some Austinites might recall that the Kollektief played here in town three times over the last decade. Coke played with Breuker for eight years prior to his return to Austin. Sunday, 8/1, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Posted by Kim Simpson
KOOP's A Neighborly Conversation hosted an in-studio discussion regarding a heated downtown sidewalk dispute at 6th and San Jacinto between the owners of The Best Wurst and the Parkside Restaurant on Wed., July 14th, 2010. The story was so popular that 3 local TV news crews including KXAN, NEWS 8 Austin, and Fox 7 Austin all filmed this radio show in-studio! Click the above links for the stories.
Posted by Kim Simpson
