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One of the biggest hits of 1956 was "The Bad Seed," a movie about a little girl with blonde pigtails, a loving family, and blood on her tap shoes. Andrew and Xtina take a look at the horror classic and why it still gets a medal from us over 60 years later. (This podcast contains samples of the score by the Warner Bros. Orchestra)

Todd Shanesy and Thom Henson talk about Wofford's overtime victory against Chattanooga and how the Terriers will handle this week's game at Clemson.

Washington, D.C., waited 86 years to host a World Series game, and the Nationals entered the weekend with a real chance to be celebrating their first ever world title by Sunday's Game 5 at home. But a wacky weekend netted three total runs, no wins and a sudden 3-2 deficit as the series shifts to Texas for Games 6 and 7.

John JD Daniels and Margaret Webster of The Public Eye studio discuss what inspires them to do their projection art festival, "Public Eye Soar," each year.

“No one plans to get into clay.” Quipped clay artist John G. Jensen.

“They do plan how to get out of it, typically.” Yves Paquette jokingly responded.

The two artists, both members of the Savannah Clay Community and featured in the exhibition Savannah Clay 2019 at the Cultural Arts Center Gallery, were this week’s in-studio guests on Art on the Air.

Read more at DoSavannah.com

Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban speaks to the media after defeating Arkansas

Oklahoma's stunning loss at Kansas State makes it hard to see a scenario where both Alabama and LSU don't make the College Football Playoffs, especially if their only losses are to each other. Ohio State and Clemson both look playoff-bound. 

Penn State, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Utah and maybe even Oklahoma still have hope ... but entering November, the CFP hunt is really a four-team race.

Manny Tang will show you that “cuteness has a dark side, too.”

Tang, a Taiwanese-American whose artist alias is China Cat 663, has lived and worked in Rockford since 2002.

Her art is omnipresent in the city and around the Midwest. Merchandise of her designs are for sale in the gift shop of Rockford Art Museum. Her latest group show, called “Rapture 2019. Muse” opened at the Aeon Gallery in Richmond, Illinois, on Oct. 26th.

The figures in Manny’s paintings take physical cues from the “Big Eyes” work of Margaret Keane. The humanoid figures have the strong feminine and fairy tale qualities of Manga and the classic sailor-girl tattoos. The sexuality is drawn for the female gaze as a rebuttal to pop-culture’s dominant, male-centric point of view.

The themes of bondage and domination create an ominous thread throughout her work that inspired her motto: “Cuteness has a dark side, too.”

Her acrylics and watercolors are masterful combinations of color that are pleasing to stare at. And her mostly monochromatic linoleum block prints equally reward lingering eye balls.

In this show, Manny talks about her artwork and reminisces about the unique and much-talked-about “Black Rabbit Masquerade Hoedown” at 317 Art Collective in early September.

More information

Rockford Register Star: www.rrstar.com

Host: Scott P. Yates; 815-987-1348; [email protected]; @scottpyates

Manny Chinacat: http://chinacat663.com

Instagram: @chinacat663

Music:

Music from https://filmmusic.io

"Darkness is Coming" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

North East High School social studies teacher Jennifer Wilson discusses her work instructing students about ethnic conflict, genocide and the Holocaust.