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moe. celebrates 35 years as a band. Vinnie Amico has been the venerable jam band's drummer for nearly 30 of those years.
Adeem the Artist opens the Rooted Rhythm concert series at the Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, Sc 8/16/24. Ticket information at http://ascgreenway.org
Popa Chubby joins Jack from a van in Florida just a few days ahead of his appearance at the Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte, NC, 11/21/23.
The Best of 2020: David Rubenstein, Loudon Wainwright III, Why Bob Dylan Matters with Harvard Prof Richard Thomas.
Nearly 55 percent of Americans say they're doing their holiday shopping online this season. How do you avoid the pitfalls of counterfeit goods? Kasie Brill joins us to discuss. Thinking about adding to your family in the new year? Kamilah Bunn from the Adoption Exchange Association (AdoptUSKids.org) will be our guest to discuss adopting from foster care. Lt Col Dan Rooney joins us to talk about his new book Fly in to the Wind. Journalist and author Kenya Hunt captures the essence of what it means to be a woman of color today. We Wake up Grateful with author Kristi Nelson and we're star-crossed with author Lori Nelson Spielman.
John Douglas, the FBI's original mind hunter joins us. His latest book is "The Killer Across the Table." Dr. Larry Sperling, the director of the CDC's Million Hearts Initiative discusses the correlation between COVID 19 and cardiovascular disease.
No election news here! Neurobiologist turned computer coder Casey Watts joins us to discuss his new book, Debugging Your Brain. Fear and anxiety are a fact of life. Amalia Andrade is with us to discuss her new book "Things You Think About when You Bite Your Nails." Americans have been skipping their vaccines during the pandemic This comes during a nationwide Hepatitis "A" spike. Dr. Leonard Friedland joins us to discuss. Life coach Gary John Bishop talks about his new book "Wise as F**k."
Actor and director DB Sweeney about his entry which closes out this year's virtual Underexposed Film Festival. The holidays are almost here. How will the pandemic change your yearly rituals? Khalilah Gates from Northwestern Medicine will join us to discuss. In times of transition, service members and veterans run the risk of disengaging from psychological health care. Even a brief lapse in care can impact their psychological health and may impact their overall wellbeing. We talk to Dr. Nick Polizzi. Anxiety is everywhere. We’ll talk to author Amalia Andrade about her new book Things You Think about When You Bite Your Nails. Can your brain be debugged like a computer? Neurobiologist turned coder Casey Watts explains with his new book Debugging your brain.
Actor/Director/Author Lou Diamond Phillips and his new book "The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira," a science fiction retelling of the Hans Christian Anderson tale of the same name. Dr Anne Peters discusses new ways that diabetics can get affordable insulin. Dr. Daniel Wallace talks about how inactivity during the pandemic is affecting those with arthritis and some activities that will help ease the pain. Rosie Mercado, ranked by People Magazine as one of the most powerful Latinas today. Her new book The Girl with the Self Esteem issues. "Don’t You Just Hate That?" author Scott Cohen joins us to discuss the most annoying things in the new edition of his book.
"The Parent Compass" authors Cynthia Muchnick and Jenn Bowie Curtis discuss parents navigating the teen years; Award-winning photographer Gary Knight and the new book from the VII Foundation, "Imagine: Reflections on Peace"; Author Corie Adjmi and her new book of shortstories about women, "Life and Other Shortcomings"; a memoir about addiction and grief from Rosemary Keevil, "The Art of Losing It".
The legendary Loudon Wainwright III joins us to discuss his new album "I'd Rather Lead a Band"; James Whittaker, editor of the book "Andrew Carnegie's Mental Dynamite" talks about the relationship between Carnegie and journalist Napoleon Hill, who later wrote the book, "Think and Grow Rich"; author CJ Cooke and her new book, "The Nestling."
Loudon Wainwright III talks about his latest album "I'd Rather Lead a Band" and reflects on 50 years since the release of his first album.
Beth Covington from the York County elections Board joins us to tell us what we need to know about voting in the upcoming election. Former Navy Seal Al Kovac tells us about challenges faced by disabled veterans when it comes to voting. The Constitution decoded with author Katie Kennedy. Dystopian Fantasy with author LB Gshwandtner and her new book "A Place Called Zamora." The words of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about the 19th amendment on the 100th anniversary of its passing.
Bobby Plair tells us about the Arts Council of York County's 2020 Virtual Blues & Jazz fest; Co- founder of the Carlyle Group and author David Rubenstein with his book "How to Lead; Neuropsychologist Dr. Michelle Braun and the "High Octane Brain"; A classified WWII secret that led to the discovery of chemotherapy with author Jennet Conant and her new book "The Great Secret"; Andrew Gumbel tells the story of how Georgia State University reversed the fortunes of low income students and ended up with phenomenally high graduation rates; Teaching boys vulnerability and empathy in the new book "The Warrior Challenge" by author and motivational speaker, John Beede.
Dr. Steve Fields from the Culture and Heritage Museums discussing the new Ice Age in the Carolinas webinars; Dr. Benjamin Singer from Northwestern Medicine discusses how the flu season will play out amid the COVID 19 pandemic; Rachel Gutter, the president of the International Well Building Institute on new training for teachers who are headed back to the classroom during the continuing pandemic; Author Wendy Holden with a new historical fiction novel, "The Royal Governess."
Chuck Haynes, Director of York County Emergency Management; Bobbi Connor with her new book series "Unplugged Play" for parents who want to get their kids away from the screens during the pandemic; Lorraine Massey with her new book "Curly Kids", helping your kids embrace having curly hair; Jennie Fields and her newest book "Atomic Love"; new music from Killers.
Former Army Secretary and congressman John McHugh discusses vote by mail and the state of the US Postal Service. August is Minority Organ Donor Awareness Month. Dr Dinee Simpson from Northwestern Medicine discusses the benefits of organ donation. Also, authors Gretchen Cherington and NY Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker.
Former Rock Hill Mayor Doug Echols joins us to discuss the life of the late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia; Author Miriam Feldman on her new book "He Came In With It", a true story of her struggle with her son's mental illness; Summer reads with New York Times bestselling author Shari Lapena and her new book, "The End of Her"; Carrie Fisher's former personal assistant Byron Lane on his new novel. "A Star is Bored", inspired by his years working for Carrie Fisher.
When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy.
Elise Hooper explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women’s Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany.
New York Times #1 Bestselling author talks about the latest in the Quinn Colson series. Quinn returns to take down a criminal syndicate that has ravaged his community, threatened his family, and tried to have him killed.
Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and co-host of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose.
Best known for his biographies of Russ Meyer, Neil Young and Andy Milligan. We talk trash cinema, New York in the 80's and other juicy subjects.
Many of baseball's little-known pioneers who transformed the game. John “Bud” Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weld Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson.
Local children's author Derrick Barnes on his new book "Who Got Game: Baseball Amazing but True Stories"; Cynthia Fisher returns with an update on the Healthcare Price Transparency Act; Journalist and biographer Jimmy McDonough; Dr. Robert Hauser and Sarah Jones from the PMD Alliance discuss Parkinson's patients who experience hallucinations and delusions.
Originally aired on WYTX-FM 7/18/20. Guests: Mychal Frost from the Rock Hill School District and Joe Burke from the Fort Mill School District discuss school reopening plans after Gov. Henry McMaster's news conference. Dr. Michael Awad on America's sleep deficit during the pandemic; Cynthia, founder of Patient Rights Advocate discusses surprise medical bills and new legislation that may provide transparency to patients.
Originally aired on WYTX-FM 7/11/20. Guests: David Warner, the Director of the Technology Incubator at Knowledge Park, Family separations at the border with author Julie Schweitert Collazo, "The Book of Rosy"; DEA agent turned author J. Todd Scott, his latest book is "Lost River."
Harvard's Dr. Richard Thomas teaches a course on Bob Dylan. He discusses the new Bob Dylan album "Rough and Rowdy Ways" and his biography "Why Bob Dylan Matters."
Originally aired on WYTX-FM 6/20/20. Guests: Author Douglas Abrams who coauthored "The Book of Joy" with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama; Dr. Benjamin Hardy, "Personality Isn't Permanent"; author Mike Maden, "Tom Clancy's Firing Point"; Author Steve Phillips, "Brown is teh New White."
Originally aired on WYTX-FM 6/13/20. Guests: Harvard Neurosurgeon Dr. Aaron Berkowitz, "One by One by One"; Child psychologist Dr. Abigail Gewertz on how to talk to your kids about scary times; Author Stephen Haff, "Kid Quixotes"; Author Katherine Snow Smith "Rules of the Southern Rulebreaker"; Going to the doctor during the pandemic.
Originally aired on WYTX-FM 5/30/20. Guests: Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"; Emily B. Martin, "Sunshield"; Increased anxiety due to the Coronavirus pandemic, 3 different mental health experts on the subject.
Originally broadcast on WYTX-FM 5/16/20. Guests: PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, her new book "Animalkind"; NPR/New York Times contributor and author Walter Thompson-Hernandez, "The Compton Cowboys"; Brian Connell, Director of Government Affairs for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society on how the Coronavirus pandemic has affected cancer patients, author Suzanne Nugent, "Brunch and Other Obligations"; looking back at the career of Little Richard; Kelly Coakley, Accelerate SC.
A crime novel of the opioid epidemic--and its cops, villains, and victims--written by a twenty-five-year veteran of the DEA.
Aired on WYTX-FM 5/9/20. Guests: Polish journalist and author Witold Szlablowski, "How to Feed a Dictator"; Robbie Barbaro, "Mastering Diabetes"; Grant Smith, "Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding in One Big Fat Notebook"; The Beatles "Let it Be" turns 50.
Episode aired on WYTX-FM 5/2/20: Guests: Eddie Huffman, author of the John Prine biography "In Spite of Himself"; Dr. Jim Bell, author of "Hubble Legacy"; Nutritionist Talia Pollock, "Party in Your Plants".
The Compton Cowboys is a story about trauma and transformation, race and identity, compassion, and ultimately, belonging. Walter Thompson-Hernández paints a unique and unexpected portrait of this city, pushing back against stereotypes to reveal an urban community in all its complexity, tragedy, and triumph.
In One by One by One, Berkowitz traces what he learns and grapples with as a young doctor trying to bridge the gap between one of the world’s richest countries and one of the world’s poorest to make the first big save of his medical career.
Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off her high heels onto President Barack Obama, gaining dubious status as the middle school “lice mom,” and finding confirmation in the lyrics of Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year marriage ends. Somehow, despite never meaning to defy Southern expectations for parenting, marriage, work, and friendship, Smith has found herself doing just that for over four decades.
n a lifesaving guide for parents, Dr. Abigail Gewirtz shows how to use the most basic tool at your disposal––conversation––to give children real help in dealing with the worries, stress, and other negative emotions caused by problems in the world, from active shooter drills to climate change.
n Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our “true selves” are to be discovered, and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead.
In April 2015, Archbishop Desmond Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others.
From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity.
CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers. Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.
Jack Ryan, Jr. is out to avenge the murder of an old friend, but the vein of evil he’s tapped into may run too deep for him to handle in the latest electric entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
The unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher discover their voices and speak truth to power.
We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, the (still-married!) co-executive directors of Indivisible tell the story of the movement. They offer a behind-the-scenes look at how change comes to Washington, whether Washington wants it or not. And they explain how we’ll win the coming fight for the future of American democracy.
Gary Ferguson presents a fascinating exploration into how many of the most remarkable aspects of nature are hardwired into our very DNA. What emerges is a dazzling web of connections that holds powerful clues about how to better navigate our daily lives.
Esteemed planetary geologist Erik Asphaug takes us on an exhilarating tour through the farthest reaches of time and our galaxy to find out why.
Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook gives you the tools to have fun family dinners with great food and great conversation. The book includes conversation starters as well as quick and easy recipes to bring your family closer.
It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.
1 New York Times bestseller Nelson DeMille and his son, award-winning screenwriter Alex DeMille. When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army’s elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer’s Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared.
For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.
In this interactive swing-along picture book with 12 sound chips, you’ll hear the instruments of jazz—the rhythm section with its banjo, drums, and tuba, and the leads, like the clarinet, trumpet, and trombone. And you’ll hear singers scat, improvising melodies with nonsense syllables like be-bop and doo-we-ah!
r. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times bestselling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging—weakness, sore joints, bad balance—and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain—all the way down to the cellular level. The message is simple: Learn to train for the next third of your life, and you’ll have a ball.
She left everything behind and risked not only her life, but also the lives of her two small children to escape from Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon. In the middle of the night, Charlie―along with her husband, two toddlers and two young sisters―joined 100 other people on a tiny boat and fled their home country. The journey was long and dangerous, but after almost two years in refugee camps, the family finally made it to America.
When Rosayra “Rosy” Pablo Cruz made the agonizing decision to seek asylum in the United States with two of her children, she knew the journey would be arduous, dangerous, and quite possibly deadly. She reveals the cruelty of the detention facilities, the excruciating pain of feeling her children ripped from her arms, the abiding faith that staved off despair.
Harvard Classics professor Richard Thomas discusses his book "Why Bob Dylan Matters" and offers his opinions on Bob Dylan's latest album "Rough and Rowdy Ways."
Jack Casady is like the Forrest Gump of Rock. He just happened to be a part of many of the watershed moments: the Summer of Love, Monterey, Woodstock, the recording of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland just to name a few. He doesn't sing and he doesn't speak much onstage. Offstage, he is very colorful and animated. Ask him about electronics or audio...go ahead, I dare you.
Award-winning radio personality Meredith Ochs takes an insightful look at 50 rock icons who indelibly shook up the music scene, whether solo or in a band. Profiling women from the 1950s to today, and from multiple genres, Ochs tells the dramatic stories behind their journeys to success, their music, and their enduring impact.
Director John Anderson discussing his music biopic, "Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story."
Edgar Award Winning author Lou Berney discusses his novel, November Road. Set against the assassination of JFK, the story centers on a cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America.
Jorma Kaukonen, founding member of Jefferson Airplane, 1/2 of Hot Tuna and owner of the Fur Peace Guitar Ranch discusses his autobiography.
The third and final installment in the Legends of Orkney series. After defeating the Volgrim witches, life in Orkney is quiet. Too quiet. Before Sam Baron can catch his breath, an army of fire giants led by Surt gather in the Eighth Realm of Musspell, determined to destroy Orkney--and it's all Sam's fault. After all, he took Odin's life with an ancient cursed dagger, and now, mankind has lost its protector. To make matters worse, the God of Mischief, Loki, is on the loose and determined to reunite with his evil wife, Angerboda, and their three children: Fenrir the wolf, Jormungand the sea serpent, and Helva, Goddess of Death. Orkney's only hope lies with Sam and his stalwart friends.
Phil Gaimon pulls back the curtain on the WorldTour, cycling’s highest level. He takes readers along for his seasons in Europe, covering everything from rabid, water-bottle-stealing Belgian fans, to contract renewals, to riding in poisonous smog, to making friends in a sport plagued by doping. Draft Animals reveals a story as much about bike racing as it is about the never-ending ladder of achieving goals, failure, and finding happiness if you land somewhere in-between.
While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Robert Lustig made an alarming discovery—our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover.
Throughout his career, Willie Nelson—singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist—has won countless accolades as well as the hearts of listeners. To name just a few of his awards: He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, as well as the National Agricultural Hall of Fame (for his charitable work with FarmAid), and received the Kennedy Center Honors, the Gershwin Prize, and a Library of Congress Lifetime Award. In the US alone, Nelson has sold more than 40 million albums. This lavish volume, written by well-known music journalist Andrew Vaughan, features more than 100 photographs and illustrations. It’s a must-have for every one of Nelson’s millions of dedicated fans.
Documentary filmmaker Kim Brattain discusses Live From The Double Door Inn: The Incredible True Story of the Legendary Music Club.
Since 1973, The Double Door Inn in Charlotte, NC has been a touchstone for blues, rock, zydeco and reggae musicians from all over the world. Music royalty, including Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Koko Taylor, and J.J. Cale, as well as countless local legends, have graced the stage in this converted house. This film traces the history of the club, from its humble beginnings to international fame and the hundreds of stories in between. Featuring interviews with club owner Nick Karres and over a dozen musicians, bartenders, music promoters and fans.
Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga teacher, body positivity advocate, and writer based in Durham, North Carolina, and her classes use high energy vinyasa flow as a way to move past mental and emotional barriers. Her classes provide a body positive approach to yoga which celebrates students’ bodies and encourages them to ask “How Do I Feel?” rather than “How Do I Look?” when practicing yoga. Jessamyn studied with Kimberley Puryear and Stephanie Keach at Asheville Yoga Center’s Teacher Training Program and her eponymous yoga lifestyle blog and Instagram attract thousands of followers daily, offering tips and advice for other yoga practitioners while documenting her home yoga practice.
In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world’s most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father’s captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States—as well as the far-reaching implications of those events on Middle Eastern politics today.
Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.
So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London and rooting in bins like an urban fox.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Nick Heller is a private spy—an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he’s called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation.
In this modern war memoir, a retired Army colonel recounts his experiences working to suppress terrorism in a strategic Iraqi city. Deane recounts his deployment to Ramadi in 2006, when it was known as the “most dangerous city in the world,” and how he and his men helped to turn it into what he calls “the safest city in Iraq” by the time U.S. troops pulled out of the country.
Late summer, 1921: Disgraced former lightweight champion Pepper Van Dean has spent the past two years on the carnival circuit performing the dangerous “hangman’s drop” and taking on all comers in nightly challenge bouts. But when he and his cardsharp wife, Moira, are marooned in the wilds of Oregon, Pepper accepts an offer to return to the world of wrestling as a trainer for Garfield Taft, a down-and-out African American heavyweight contender in search of a comeback and a shot at the world title.
A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York’s Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s.
It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies—with real players, in a real ballpark, playing in real time. That’s what Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when the Sonoma Stompers, an independent minor-league team in California, offered them the chance to run the team’s baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story is unlike any other baseball tale you’ve ever read.
Quinn Colson didn’t owe his home town of Jericho, Mississippi, a damn thing. After serving for more than a decade as a U.S. Army Ranger, he’d returned, been elected sheriff, and tried to make the town and surrounding Tibbehah county a better place. He was rewarded with being voted out of office, and went back to the war zone he’d left. Now, back in Jericho, trying to fix things with his still-married high school girlfriend and retired Hollywood stuntman father, he’s drawn to becoming a lawman again. This time, he accepts a badge from acting Sheriff Lillie Virgil, a foul-mouthed law woman with shades of Calamity Jane. But what they must confront together is something brand-new.
A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts.
How to close the gap between strategy and execution. Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don't have the capabilities to support their strategy. In "Strategy That Works," Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally create a gap between strategy and execution. And they show how some of the best companies in the world consistently leap ahead of their competitors. Based on new research, the authors reveal five practices for connecting strategy and execution used by highly successful enterprises.