Part One is a preview of the newest production of Kenosha's Lakeside Players: a crazy theatrical spoof called "Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf."   Part Two features UW-Parkside orchestral conductor Alvaro Garcia as well as Kenosha's own Rachel Velvikis, a marvelous french horn player, who has been at Parkside all week as the Howard Brown Artist-in-Residence.  She will be soloist with the UW-P orchestra tomorrow night. 

We speak with Anne Kim, author of "Abandoned:  America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection."  

Carthage College's Erik Johnson,  Assistant Professor of Economics,  talks about the state of trade between the United States and China.  

We're given a demonstration of an extraordinary bit of technology called the Anatomage Table 6, which is used by Gateway Technical College's health sciences students.  It is essentially a 'virtual cadaver,' allowing students to see into the human body in a way never possible before.   

From 2018 comes a conversation with Erik Weihenmayer, author of "No Barriers:  a Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon."  The author has an incredible array of accomplishments to his credit, such as climbing Mount Everest.  

We talk about the good work of the Racine County Food Bank - and about their upcoming "Thoughts for Food" fundraiser.  

From the archives comes this 2008 interview with best-selling author Clive Cussler, who died on February 24th at the age of 88.  Also participating in the interview is his son Dirk, with whom he collaborated on several books. 

We revisit the triumphant state championship of the 1997-1998 Park High School Science Olympiad Team - an impressive victory which qualified them to compete in the National Science Olympiad.  This archival interview features their faculty advisor, Barb Salvo - and three of the students on the team:  Nick Barootian, Amanda Schneider, and Jeremiah James, talking about their improbable victory over schools from much wealthier schools - as well as the various events that comprised the Science Olympiad.  

There is a year-long project underway in the city of Racine titled "Opening our Hearts and Minds to End Racism."  We speak to three of its principal organizers:  Sister Ann Pratt, Co-Director of the Dominican Center for Justice Resources .... Carl Fields from Racine Interfaith Coalition .... and James Schatzman from Racine Vocational Ministries.  

The 2020 Susan B. Anthony Awards