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Tossed Salad for 2/08/2019

For our pre-Valentines Day enjoyment, Chris Bricker brings us a Tossed Salad array that’s full of heart. We’re sure you’ll enjoy this afternoon’s variety:

1:00 – Four Tunes for the Heart from Chris’s music library
1:15 – Storyborne’s Heart Stories: Bonnie Obremski with Aki and Amy Sousa
2:00 – Melody Eisler, Director of the Port Townsend Library,  announcing the 2019 Community Read
2:30 – One Time Players Director David Hillman and cast members from The Cripple of Inishmaan, on the process of developing a character
3:00 – Bertram Levy on concertina and bandoneon
3:30 – Blue Heron Presents Students from the Writing Program, with Brett Navin
4:00 – Phil Andrus from Manzanilla! (musical interlude)
4:30 – Don White reading Girlfriend Repair Shop by Simon Rich

Behind the Microphone with Kate Ingram

(First airdate: February 5, 2019) KPTZ’s own Kate Ingram reveals to Everybody Can host Missy Nielsen the many working parts behind the microphone at KPTZ. From the history of KPTZ to the many scores of dedicated volunteers, find out how this local public station keeps our community informed on local and global issues.

Kevin Clark

(First airdate: February 5, 2019) Host Sheila Bender talks by phone with California poet Kevin Clark about his poetry, career as a poet, and how he teaches new poets to write toward surprise. 

Compass for the Week of 2/04/2019

This week on the Compass we talk with award-winning journalist Dahr Jamail about his new book titled The End of Ice, for which he circled the globe to document in devastating detail the heartbreaking realities of runaway climate disruption.

Nature Now #397
Ocean Circulation

(First airdate: January 30, 2019) Nan Evans interviews UW oceanographer Dr. Charlie Eriksen about new ways to observe the movement of ocean currents and what that means for the advancement of our understanding of global phenomena. Charlie has literally restructured how we look at the ocean. This is part 2 of an interview aired October 17, 2018.

Tossed Salad for 2/01/2019

Can you believe it’s February already? Well, Phil Andrus will warm us up at 12:40pm with Can’t Wait for Salad, featuring David Hillman and cast members of One Time Players’ The Cripple of Inishmaan. Thereafter, our warm Tossed Salad gives us:

1:00 – Kristin and Otto, tunes from shoreside
1:45 – Finn Wilcox, Clem Starck, and Red Pine, poets on the loose
2:30 – Jeanie Murphy “Banjo Tunes, Tunings, and Lore”
3:15 – Al Bergstein “Olympic Peninsula Environmental News”
3:45 – Richard and Suzanne Friedrichs, music of West Asia
4:30 – Deborah Kate Hammond reading

#128 Bill Kraut, Hadlock Building Supply

(First airdate: January 29, 2019) HARDWARE HEAVEN IN HADLOCK. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Bill Kraut, the owner of Hadlock Building Supply. As a young sailor on a submarine, Bill had no clue that he’d one day be running a thriving hardware business on the Olympic Peninsula. But love showed him the way. This Indiana boy met his now wife Elena Lovato online. The rest, as they say, is history. The couple now have two teenage sons and are quite active in all sorts of charity events around the peninsula.

Compass for the Week of 1/28/2018

This week on the Compass, our reporter Chris Bricker attends a training in which elders at San Juan Villa learn songwriting from six professionals as part of the Bringing the Music Home Project, an evidence-based program aimed at promoting cognitive, physical, and emotional well-being.

The Music of Alan Hart

On the January 26, 2019 Tossed Salad show, Jeanie Murphy presented the music of the late Alan Hart.

Frozen Borders

On the January 26, 2019 Tossed Salad show, Phil Andrus talked with the cast of Key City Public Theatre’s Frozen Borders.