Songwriter, guitarist, rocker and vocal powerhouse Kate Skales performs live in studio while she’s back in Southwest Florida for a series of performances. Skales’ music career began to take off a few years ago when she moved to Southwest Florida. She’s since relocated to Los Angeles where she continues writing and performing prolifically. Her debut EP “ Ready For Me ,” dropped in 2018 and she’s hard at work on a second album. We’ll catch up with Kate Skales about what she’s been up to in Los

We’re joined today by New York-based playwright Rich Orloff to talk about his one-man show called “It’s a Beautiful Wound” which explores what he describes as his adventures in underground therapy using MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms to help him heal from deep psychological wounds. He’ll be performing it next week in the Foulds Theater at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers.

We’re listening back to conversation WGCU’s Jessica Meszaros had with author Lyn Millner about her book “The Allure of Immortality—an American Cult, a Florida Swamp and a Renegade Prophet.” It historically profiles Koreshan worshipers from the late 1800s to their influence even today. Koreshans were celibate and believed marriage was a form of slavery toward women. The communal group shared workloads, food and childcare. They also worshiped their prophet, Cyrus Teed .

Anyone who visited southwest Florida’s beaches during the summer of 2018 knows what a bad red tide event can do. Dead marine life clogged area beaches and canals, and beachgoers choked from respiratory irritation caused by the bloom of karenia brevis – it’s the marine dinoflagellate commonly found in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico that causes what we call red tide when it reaches high concentrations. In all, that event lasted nearly 18 months, stretching from Naples to Tampa. It killed

The Laboratory Theater of Florida in Fort Myers opens its 11 th season this month with playwright Arthur Miller’s timeless classic, “ The Crucible ,” which serves as a dramatic account of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 17 th century. The show will also mark the theater company’s 100 production to date. We’ll take a closer look at the play’s central themes and how they remain just as relevant today as they ever have.

We're marking the 18th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by listening back to a conversation we had in 2017 with Beverley Bass . She's a fourth-generation Floridian from Fort Myers, and one of the first female pilots for American Airlines— and its first female captain . Her experiences as a pilot on September 11, 2001, when she and thousands of others found themselves grounded in Gander, Newfoundland until American airspace re-opened, form part of the foundation of a story that's now

According to the latest numbers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse just over 25 percent of kids growing up in the U.S. live in households where substance abuse is present. And, because kids are greatly influenced by the people who raise them, these influences can severely impact kids, and increase their chances of growing up abusing alcohol and drugs themselves.

Ranked-choice voting is an election system in which voters don’t pick one candidate for each race, but rather rank all candidates in order of their preference. It’s also referred to as an instant runoff system, and is mostly designed to prevent candidates from winning with less than a majority of votes. While it’s been around for more than a century, and is used in some local and party elections here in the U.S., it’s mostly used in other countries. But, for the past two elections, Maine has

Before heading out on their Great American Tour in July, the Sebring-based band the Swamp Rats returned to the WGCU studios to perform new selections of their eclectic blend of folk, blues, Americana and bluegrass infused with punk and metal. The band has teamed up with author and traveler April Lee Fields who recites her writing with the band playing behind it creating a kind of musical literary journey called “April Lee Fields’ Story & Song.”

Diversity is what unites us all – that’s the underlying premise of the latest book by our guest, Dr. Andrew Solomon . He is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology. He is a winner of the National Book Award , and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts. He’s been a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine; and has written for many other periodicals, and has published a number of books.