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Today on Artful Living, Jane highlights Avaloch Farm Music Institute with some musician interviews at a wonderful recent concert held at the end of June. Everyone is invited to join us!

Thursday's program featured a look at the upcoming session at OLLI at UNH with Program Manager Tori Berube. OLLI is the acronym for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Their next session, which begins in August, will feature more than 170 classes that are available to their members.Registration begins on August 5. For more information its:

www.unh.edu/OLLI or (603) 255-3553

This week on Facing the Future, we'll take a preliminary look at the tax policy proposals of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. In addition, we'll consider the tax policy implications of a case recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Our guest is Steven Rosenthal, senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

The WKXL NH Unscripted studio was packed today with cast and crew from the Franklin Footlight production of Monty Python’s SPAMALOT going up Aug 1-4 at the Tilton School’s Hamilton Hall. SPAMALOT is a Camelot spoof and is absolutely hilarious for those that don’t know and we talked about it all. The show is filled with classic MP gags and routines and we discussed as much of them as we could. There was even an accent challenge at one point with yours truly failing miserably! The show has all of the characters that you would expect including King Arthur, Lancelot (the homicidally brave), Lady of the Lake (complete with Laker Girls), Sir Robin (the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir-Lancelot), Sir Galahad, Sir Bedevere, Patsy, Prince Herbert, Concorde and many more. Choreography? Oh yeah, in spades! My friends, go out to dinner and then go see this show. You will not be disappointed!

Detective Sergeant Richard Perrault of New Hampshire State Police joined us on Wednesday to discuss the state's D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program. Sergeant Perreault is the D.A.R.E. State Coordinator and has been involved in the program for nearly 15 years. Each year, a 5K fundraising event is held to benefit the work of the organization. This year's event will be held on Wednesday, August 28 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.

www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov

Today's Artful Living is all about Ludwig van Beethoven. We will listen to some wonderful Beethoven music and discuss this magnificient composer's contribution to Western Classical music. Come and join us.

A potpourri version of the show on Tuesday with word that presumptive Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris was able to secure enough delegates to garner the party's nomination next month at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Also breaking, a bipartisan House Task Force has been launched to investigate the Trump rally shooting on July 13 in Butler, Ohio. The announcement coming from House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. In addition we looked ahead to the upcoming Summer Olympics to open later this week in Paris.

Mondays program discussed the events of the weekend leading up to the Sunday announcement that President Biden would not be seeking a second term. The news came less than three hours after a member of the Biden "team" said on national TV that the President would continue on the campaign trail. Also discussed was Governor Sununu's action on Friday regarding Transgender participation in sports.

Well, as promised today we bring you part II of my interview with several members from the cast of Actors Cooperative Theatre’s productions of Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical stop by and give us a deep, deep dive into the show. Angelica Forcier Rosenthal (Kathryn Merteuil), Garrett Meyer (Sebastian Valmont) and Mackenzie Goodwin (Cecile Caldwell) continue to walk me through more the plays insane “Dantes Inferno” type levels of craziness. Six potential “couples”? Cocaine inside a crucifix? A celebrated death by taxi driver? What is going on here? And to top off the episode we get a sneak peek into their next seasons choice. It’s a play based on a movie that I had no idea was made into a stage production and ONLY ACT would be looking for it!!! The show goes up Aug. 2-11 at the MCTP Theatre at the North End Montessori School; 698 Beech St, Manchester and tickets can be bought at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=191346

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."