What’s your favorite George Gershwin tune? One of America’s quintessential composers, Gershwin died of an undiagnosed brain tumor in 1937 at the age of 38 – but not before he put his indelible stamp on the American song. We’ll explore Gershwin’s short but prolific career this hour with Howard Pollack Professor of Music at the […]
How do you get a film made today? Do you start with a screenplay? Do you start by looking for funding? Do you shoot on film or go with digital? We’ll spend this hour with film makers who each have films in the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, which runs until April 1st. We’ll be […]
How are things connected? What is the true shape of those things? Mathematicians have attempted to prove or disprove a tantalizing puzzle related to these questions since it was first posed by Henri Poincar?? in 1904. Our guest this hour, Professor Donal O’Shea of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, believes the proposition may have been […]
We hope you’ll enjoy an archive program featuring a conversation with journalist Andrew D. Blechman author of “Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird” (Grove Press, 2006). Blechman takes us from pigeon shoots to pigeon races; and from the quarters of Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Pigeon Handler to a radical pro-pigeon […]
What is it like to live in a convent today? What was it like in the turbulent 1960s? Sister Karol Jackowski shocked her friends and family when she decided to enter a convent after high school in 1964. Her experiences within paralleled the changing climate outside the convent’s walls. Sister Karol will join us this […]
Music Within screens at the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival Opening Night Gala this week. We’ll talk with the film’s director, Steven Sawalich, and the subject of the film, Richard Pimentel, who overcame profound hearing loss in the Vietnam War to become the driving force behind the Americans with Disabilities Act. Our Scene segment will […]
What is the nature of a borderland? How do our borders with Canada and Mexico differ? How are they the same? We’ll examine the peculiar nature and history of borders this hour with participants in SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies Symposium “Bridging National Borders in North America.” We’ll be joined by Dr. Carolyn Podruchny […]
We’ll spend this hour with veteran actor Bill Paxton. A native of Fort Worth, Paxton famously set out for Hollywood at the age of 18 to get his start. He succeeded. Paxton is in town for the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. He appears in the new film “The Good Life” which screens at the […]
Since 1993, more than 500 girls and women have been killed and disappeared in Juarez, Mexico. Award-winning veteran journalist Diana Washington Valdez has spent seven years investigating the murders and disappearances that have attracted the attention of the U.S. Congress and Senate, Amnesty International, United Nations and Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. Diana Washington Valdez, […]
The war in Iraq entered its fifth year this week. Where do you stand on the conflict? Has your opinion changed? Where do you turn for verifiable information about the war? We’ll open the phones for your opinions and thoughts this hour.
