A compendium of stories for the last Saturday of the last month of 2019:

Santa Suit is too small, by Gabi Coatsworth

Sexy Underwear Leads Megan Smith Harris to a Glaring Department Store Makeover.

Dark and Sweet,

The Gingerbread Man Reimagined by Radio Dramatist Phil Holt.

New Signs of Life Quiets the Young Catholic Girls Bored

By Shakespeare. Maureen Hallock

A compendium of stories for the last Saturday of the last month of 2019:

Santa Suit is too small, by Gabi Coatsworth

Sexy Underwear Leads Megan Smith Harris to a Glaring Department Store Makeover.

Dark and Sweet,

The Gingerbread Man Reimagined by Radio Dramatist Phil Holt.

New Signs of Life Quiets the Young Catholic Girls Bored

By Shakespeare. Maureen Hallock

Thursday, December 26, 2019, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Duo Dickinson

We are in the Very Middle Of Our Annual Time of Ornament (the Holidays. We will soon be facing A Time of Not Ornament (the rest of the year). This is Not about religion, this is about or most human of realities. We have exhausted money, time, effort to make our homes, and all of our environments Celebrate the ending of one year and the beginning of the next.

Why do we spend our lives in this endless cycling of making celebratory beauty, and then remove it in extreme drudgery, depression and time “cleaning up” and ending the ornament we have spent so many years, dollars and hours creating…

HOME PAGE tries to take a measure of why this season makes us so completely devoted to ornament – in our homes, our places of work, even on our cars. Why do these rituals of decoration consume so many, and virtually distract everyone else? If they are so important, why we remove them? More importantly why is ornament an afterthought in our daily lives, especially in our homes.

Given that it will be Boxing Day, it is fitting that we will have a British representative in America, Gail Lynch, to tell us about what she has done, her 40 years in America, during this time of Christmas, Hannukah, Solstice, Advent and New Year can recount how the two cultures of England and America address this time. Her extended family has blossomed to mean gatherings at year’s end: and all the concomitant preparations and then recoveries after it ends.

Home page then welcomes Kent Bloomer back to the program. Kent Bloomer has been a presence at the Yale School of architecture for those 40 years and more, and has written books and spent a life time designing and making huge and small elements and buildings that embody the celebration of these weeks. His perspective is invaluable in a time that often has no perspective beyond surviving the chaos and change we impose upon ourselves.

Join us!

Thursday, December 26, 2019, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Duo Dickinson

We are in the Very Middle Of Our Annual Time of Ornament (the Holidays. We will soon be facing A Time of Not Ornament (the rest of the year). This is Not about religion, this is about or most human of realities. We have exhausted money, time, effort to make our homes, and all of our environments Celebrate the ending of one year and the beginning of the next.

Why do we spend our lives in this endless cycling of making celebratory beauty, and then remove it in extreme drudgery, depression and time “cleaning up” and ending the ornament we have spent so many years, dollars and hours creating…

HOME PAGE tries to take a measure of why this season makes us so completely devoted to ornament – in our homes, our places of work, even on our cars. Why do these rituals of decoration consume so many, and virtually distract everyone else? If they are so important, why we remove them? More importantly why is ornament an afterthought in our daily lives, especially in our homes.

Given that it will be Boxing Day, it is fitting that we will have a British representative in America, Gail Lynch, to tell us about what she has done, her 40 years in America, during this time of Christmas, Hannukah, Solstice, Advent and New Year can recount how the two cultures of England and America address this time. Her extended family has blossomed to mean gatherings at year’s end: and all the concomitant preparations and then recoveries after it ends.

Home page then welcomes Kent Bloomer back to the program. Kent Bloomer has been a presence at the Yale School of architecture for those 40 years and more, and has written books and spent a life time designing and making huge and small elements and buildings that embody the celebration of these weeks. His perspective is invaluable in a time that often has no perspective beyond surviving the chaos and change we impose upon ourselves.

Join us!

Monday, January 6, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Bonnie Lykes

We launch 2020 with plenty of fresh thrills presently percolating in greater New Haven! The hour starts with conversation and music helpings from jazz diva Catherine Russell—on stage at the Morse Recital hall mid month. Besides her own discography, she’s featured on too many albums to count; Steely Dan, David Bowie, Rosanne Cash, just to name a few. We also head to ArtSpace for their winter gallery installations, over to Cafe Nine for live shows with Swanky Tiger and the lure of Hot Slice Comedy at Next Door. Also, literary open mikes at the Poetry Institute and other tantalizing heady events created to make us think a little deeper. So fire up the show to harvest NH event details and Happy New Year!!"

Monday, January 6, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Bonnie Lykes

We launch 2020 with plenty of fresh thrills presently percolating in greater New Haven! The hour starts with conversation and music helpings from jazz diva Catherine Russell—on stage at the Morse Recital hall mid month. Besides her own discography, she’s featured on too many albums to count; Steely Dan, David Bowie, Rosanne Cash, just to name a few. We also head to ArtSpace for their winter gallery installations, over to Cafe Nine for live shows with Swanky Tiger and the lure of Hot Slice Comedy at Next Door. Also, literary open mikes at the Poetry Institute and other tantalizing heady events created to make us think a little deeper. So fire up the show to harvest NH event details and Happy New Year!!"

*Trump Assassination of Top Iranian General Could Provoke Disastrous Regional War; Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Criminal Justice Reform Initiatives Make Progress in States Across America in 2019; Marc Mauer, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

* Trump-GOP Tax Law Ushers in Lowest Corporate Tax Rates in 40 Years; Matthew Gardner, Senior Fellow with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy; Producer: Scott Harris.

*Trump Assassination of Top Iranian General Could Provoke Disastrous Regional War; Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Criminal Justice Reform Initiatives Make Progress in States Across America in 2019; Marc Mauer, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

* Trump-GOP Tax Law Ushers in Lowest Corporate Tax Rates in 40 Years; Matthew Gardner, Senior Fellow with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy; Producer: Scott Harris.

Environmental news headlines from around a planet in crisis. January 2020

Environmental news headlines from around a planet in crisis. January 2020