We follow the exploits of a man- Simon Goodman - as he works over the course of many years to try and gain back at least some of the treasures from his family's priceless art collection that were stolen by the Nazis.
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Carthage College Professor Art Cyr pays his monthly visit to the program to offer analysis of current events.
The hour includes a preview of a new season of Fine Arts at First at Kenosha's First United Methodist Church. We'll speak with the coordinator of the series, Jessica DeBoer.
Mary Pflum Peterson, a producer for Good Morning America, talks about her memoir "White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters." The book recounts her experience of growing up with a mother who co
Sociology Professor Christopher Doob talks about his new book "The Anatomy of Competition in Sports." It examines the rigors and stresses faced by the athletes in America's most important professional sports leagues: major
We welcome into our studios the guests of the 2015 Kenosha Festival of Cartooning: Jan Eliot (Stone Soup), Bill Morrison (The Simpsons,) Mark Tatulli (Lio), Darrin Bell (Candorville), Mark Anderson (Andertoons), and Ed St
Lisa Kornetsky, from UW-Parkside's theater department and Laura Mason from UW-Parkside's media center, will join us to talk about Copyright Day, an event designed to help people understand the importance of copyright pro
We spend part of the program with Bert and John Jacobs, founders of the high successful apparel company Life Is Good.
Herman Mashaba, one of South Africa's most successful and influential entrepreneurs and civic leaders. He is visiting the campus of Carthage College today and tomorrow.
We'll be broadcasting live from the site of Kenosha's new Dream Playground, which should be nearing completion by the time of the program.
For the monthly visit of the United Environmental Council, Nan Calvert has invited Mark Shepard, from New Forest Farm, to talk about Restoration Agriculture.
We speak with Loretta Veney, author of "Being My Mom's Mom: A Journey Through Dementia Through a Daughter's Perspective." Veney is coming to Racine this weekend to talk about her experience of trying to help her beloved mo
Racine Theater Guild artistic director Doug Instenes joins us to talk about their newest production - "Calendar Girls" - which opens this weekend.
2015 is the 40th anniversary year of America's desperate withdrawal from Saigon, we rebroadcast a conversation with Tom Claven, the author of "Last Men Out."
50 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed, we rebroadcast our interview with the author of "Jimmie Lee and James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America." The book explores two murders that h
Continuing our observance of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we speak with the director of an extraordinary documentary about the disaster titled Witness: Katrina, which is comprised entirely of first-person vi
We commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with rebroadcasts of two interviews: New Orleans reporter Mark Lisheron reminisces about the challenge of covering such a disaster.
Best-selling author Buzz Bissinger, author of 'Friday Night Lights," which has just been republished in a special 25th anniversary edition.
Katie Workman, "Dinner Solved." All 100 recipes in this book feature so-called "Forks in the Road," in which each recipe is offered up in simple variations that allow it to be tailored to various people's different tastes
British historian Nick Bunker, author of "Edge of an Empire," which offers a British perspective on why Britain ended up battling the American colonists in the American Revolution.
Janice Kaplan, author of "The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life."
We open the hour with Matthew Diffee, a cartoonist whose works appears regularly in New Yorker magazine.
Following up on a conversation from exactly one week ago on native pollinators, we talk today with two representatives of the Kenosha/Racine Beekeepers Association: President Peter Poli and Past-President Tim Fulton join u
We catch up with Illinois author Fern Schumer Chapman, who has just written her third book about her mother - a Holocaust survivor.
Richard Cerasani, author of "Love Letters from Mount Rushmore- The Story of a Marriage, a Monument, and a Moment in History." Cerasani's father Arthur worked on Mt. Rushmore as the monument was nearing completion.
UW-Parkside professor Jonathan Shailor joins us to offer an update on his Shakespeare Project (doing Shakespeare behind prison walls with inmates in the cast) and to talk about the upcoming local screening of a powerful an
Our guest, local author James Neibaur, returns to the program to talk about his most recent book, a chronicle Clint Eastwood westerns.
Carthage Professor Yuri Maltsev joins us to offer a reaction to Mr. Mezrich's book - and also offers his own thoughts about that particular period in recent Russian history.
We spend part of the hour with Ben Mazrich, author of "Once Upon aTime in Russia," which chronicles how a small group of Russian men managed to amass huge fortunes during the turbulent period following the dissolution of t
Roger Abrams, author of "Playing Tough," which examines the interaction between sports and politics.
We look back 20 years to the Heat Wave of 1995 which struck most of the Midwest - and which hit Chicago especially hard.
We rebroadcast our interview with Hank Greenspan, talking about the interviews he has done over the years with Holocaust survivors.
We preview this weekend's Pike River Rendezvous with Dan Joyce and Nancy Matthews from the Kenosha Public Museum.
A rebroadcast of our interview with Justin Martin, author of 'Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted." Olmsted was responsible for designing some of the most beautiful parks in America, including the extensive
Part One of the Morning Show features Science Entertainer Doktor Kaboom. Also, "One More Step" author Bonner Paddock who celebrates being an athlete with Cerebral Palsy.