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Today's segment of Artful Living introduces composer and pianist, Tony Cicoria whose near death experience changed his life forever. Crows Feat Farm presents Tony's composition "Lightning Sonata" at "A Classical Confection" on Aug 11. Join our conversation on Artful Living.

Dan Weed of the award winning Weed Family Automotive in Concord joined us in studio on Thursday. Among other topics, Dan discussed the auto service maintenance policies that are advertised on TV and elsewhere. Those policies do not always cover all of the costs of your repairs. Dan's advice is to learn about what is covered before you make a long term commitment.

This week on Facing the Future we’ll talk with Jeff Holland of the Peterson Foundation about a series of papers released last week called Solutions Initiative 2024. It features seven plans from prominent think tanks, including one from our second guest, Andrew Lautz of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Getting to chat with friends makes for some of the best NH Unscripted episodes and this one with Deirdre Bridge is a great example of that. This get together was supposed to happen earlier, but, got delayed. (Okay, I forgot about it and was cutting my grass! There, you happy?) I was curious about her role in the tKapow production of Paradise Now! as well as what it was like to work at the Bank of NH Stage, but, as the conversation continued things just kept going off the rails!! Deirdre cracked me up and then tossed me under the bus a couple of (well deserved) times. I really enjoy our theater community and chats like this one are big reasons why. Enjoy.

We talked some baseball Wednesday with longtime area coach and manager John Bly analyzing what the Red Sox and other teams did at Tuesday's trading deadline. Also on Wednesday, our monthly visit with New Hampshire's Department of Safety. The focus this month on the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Joining us in studio, Assistant Director Megan Hoskins, Chief of Mitigation and Recovery Austin Brown and Community Outreach Coordinator Vanessa Palange.

Kathy Kelley chats with Jane on Artful Living discussing the "nomad" culture of RV-ing!  Join us for this very fun, thoughtful, and informative discussion, and see if this lifestyle is for you!

Our Tuesday guest was Miriam Carter, the Executive Director of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. The 91st Annual League of N.H. Craftsmen's Fair will get underway Saturday, August 3 and continue through Sunday, August 11 at the Mount Sunapee Resort in Newbury, N.H. Hours are 10 AM to 5 PM daily with a record number of juried craftsmen, daily activities and demonstrations as well as music from 11 AM to 3 PM. More information at www.nhcrafts.org

It was a "potpourri" Monday on the program as we wrapped up the events that took place over the weekend. Those events included, but were not limited to, Jayson Tatum's "benching" by Steve Kerr at the Olympics, a motorcyclist going 130 MPH in Windham and the President calling for Supreme Court term limits.

We also announced our Vanity Insanity license plate of the week. It's "SIOUX-Z". That NH plate was spotted in the vicinity of Loudon Road in Concord.

Stage actors looking for an edge should lend an ear to today’s episode. WKXL's NH Unscripted had Michael Cobb from "truepenny arts” gave me a captivating hour to talk about his upcoming workshops. He had a lead role in Donald Tongue’s award winning short film “Home Burial”. Here is just a sample of his pedigree: “...movement improv in Boston, onstage at Trinity (including study and casting and advice by/from Richard Jenkins, some other names), including three-hander with another Tony nominee/Olympic Speed skater/Renfield to Frank Langella's Dracula on Broadway, Dallas Theatre Center lead, crashing Emmy-winning choreographer's audition and getting national broadcast on PBS out of it, year as leadership in the now Gamm Theater there, M.A. at Brown, years in the Adirondacks doing theatre, training at A.R.T./Moscow Art Theatre School to be voice/speech/text coach, STUDYING ACTING WITH MOSCOW ART THEATRE FACULTY, going to Moscow to study/teach/see theatre for three months, getting hired as Head of Voice, Speech, and Text (including teaching Shakespeare) at National Theatre Conservatory in Denver (including coaching at Denver Center Theater)…” Well worth the listen.

It's Friday, which means the Friday Fun Bunch is in the WKXL Studios! Ken Cail interviews Tom Raffio, President & CEO of Northeast Delta Dental and Kitty Rae the OFFICIAL “Flick Chick."