Colorado College’s Cornerstone Arts Week begins Monday, February 4th. This year, the series explores “the ways in which humor and the arts create bridges between cultures, belief systems, and yes–even political parties.” Today we bring you a special preview of one of next week’s featured events: a panel discussion among Wiretap host Jonathan [...]

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Colorado College English professor and Canadian, Steven Hayward presents a primer of sorts for fed-up Americans who’ve proclaimed, for myriad reasons, that they’ve had it with America and now they’re moving to Canada.

Steven Hayward is a novelist and short story writer born in Toronto, Canada. The eldest of two brothers, he attended [...]

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Since we’re in the midst of our 2012 Winter Membership Drive, we thought it would be fun to fire up the old Radio Time Machine and take a listen to what KRCC Membership Drives sounded like a quarter of a century ago. Before you listen, it’s important to remember that though you’ll hear some familiar [...]

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We all need to eat, and in this episode of Western Skies, we attempt to connect you with the people who produce our food. From community supported agriculture to traditional ranching, we’ve talked to people involved with this basic necessity, and bring you their stories.

You can download the full episode, or listen [...]

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Colorado Springs resident Jim Robinson spent a long time in Texas…and in today’s “Citizen Report,” Robinson shares this story about a true mother-son bonding experience, and the ones that got away.

(The “Citizen Report” is a collaboration between the Colorado Springs Gazette and KRCC. More information is available at the YourHub link at [...]

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Harvard School of Public Health
May 23, 2013 | NPR · Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, breast-feed their offspring for several years. Some baby orangutans nurse until they are 7 years old. Researchers found a way to test ancient teeth for clues about when humans cut nursing short.
 

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May 22, 2013 | NPR · A Manhattan judge upholds a lower court ruling that $210 million worth of unredeemed gift cards from the defunct book chain are no longer valid.
 

AP
May 22, 2013 | NPR · The IRS bureaucrat showed up long enough at a House hearing into the scandal engulfing her agency to declare her innocence and her constitutional right to say no more.
 

Arts & Life

Courtesy Ai Weiwei
May 22, 2013 | NPR · In 2011, police detained Ai Weiwei for 81 days. Now, he’s released a song that’s turned the experience into a heavy metal protest song, along with a dystopian nightmare video. The lyrics are explicit and angry. Ai says his music is for the many political prisoners who remain jailed.
 

American Zoetrope/Nala Films
May 22, 2013 | NPR · All is Gatsbyish excess on the Croisette, where the Cannes Film Festival’s early tone might well have been set by Baz Luhrmann’s lavish film — and by Sofia Coppola’s accomplished The Bling Ring.
 

May 22, 2013 | NPR · Basketball star Carmelo Anthony is known off the court for his signature fashion flare. Host Michel Martin speaks with his stylist, Khalilah Williams-Webb, about what goes into dressing Anthony and other high-profile clients.
 

Music

Courtesy of the artist
May 22, 2013 | NPR · The Toronto-based band plays a hybrid of old-school calypso, ska and other West Indian styles. But the new album Jumbie in the Jukebox doesn’t so much revive classic genres as reinvent them for a new time.
 

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May 22, 2013 | NPR · The composer, who never fit into any particular school of composition, will be remembered for a relatively small quantity of perfectly realized, richly textured works created for some of the 20th century’s leading virtuosos.
 

Courtesy Ai Weiwei
May 22, 2013 | NPR · In 2011, police detained Ai Weiwei for 81 days. Now, he’s released a song that’s turned the experience into a heavy metal protest song, along with a dystopian nightmare video. The lyrics are explicit and angry. Ai says his music is for the many political prisoners who remain jailed.
 

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