Ever heard the old joke “If you remember the sixties, you weren’t there?” Well, it’s funny, but not only is it part of a plethora of cartoonish references and notions about this very complicated era, it’s definitely not true! Journalist and music executive Danny Goldberg has written In Search in the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea (Akashic Books, 2017), and it is a very thorough and moving analysis of the political and musical history of 1967. His timing couldn’t be better – as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love, the summer 100,000 or more young people invaded Haight Ashbury, San Francisco with an idea that life could be more than the pursuit of money and success. As Sheila Weller says in her NY Times review, “Over the decades, that year and the “hippie idea, as Danny Goldberg calls it – “when ‘peace and love’ was not meant or taken ironically” – were at first solipsistically ballyhooed and then retired to a permanent state of ridiculed cliché. Thus writing about the time without cynicism carries risk.” Goldberg presents a remarkably balanced view – he admits to nostalgia, but also describes the dark side of the era. As Todd Gitlin wrote: “The sixties were like a cyclone in a wind tunnel.”

It was a pleasure to have Goldberg as a guest on A Miniature World. I too, remember. Come share your memories and comments here: https://www.facebook.com/BinnieKleinPodcasts/

My guest is Harvey Franklin Wasserman an American journalist, author, democracy activist and advocate for renewable energy. He has been a strategist and organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States for over 30 years.  I asked Harvey to come on today's show to talk about another Nuclear power plant the Fukishima plant in Japan. I wanted to hear Harvey's assessment of this ongoing environmental disaster after the plants meltdown 6 years ago, in light of the possibility that a radiation plume, still leaking from the plant, has spread across the pacific and is being detected on the west coast of the United states.

Kathy’s Corner: Principles of Maharishi Ayurveda

Kathy speaks on the profound principles of Maharishi Ayurveda. Understanding the basic principles and taking advantage of the useful modalities for generating best health through Maharishi Ayurveda will bring balance to the individual and nation.

Aubrey Booska Light the Way Lighthouse Project 2017 on State of the ARTS with Richard Pheneger & Peggy Nelson

Interview with Frederick Kennedy, Sound Designer

Talking with Frederick Kennedy, Richard Epstein explores the use of recorded and live sounds to enhance a theatrical production.

Percussionist, composer, recording artist, and Yale graduate student Kennedy demonstrates some live percussion tricks in the studio and talks about his career that now focuses on providing background sounds and music for live theater.

Currently, Frederick is completing a Master of Fine Arts in Sound Design (’18) at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale he has designed sound If Pretty Hurts, Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Othello. He recently wrote, co-directed, and performed in Collisions at Yale Cabaret and was the associate sound designer and music coordinator for Yale Rep’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince (a CT Critic’s Circle nominee in the Sound Design category). Other credits include Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of The Trojan Women, Adam Geist, Alice In Wonderland, Envy: the Concert (Yale Summer Cabaret); Circling the Drain, Débâcles, Lake Kelsey, Vignette of a Recollection, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, How We Died of Disease-Related Illnesses, and I’m With You In Rockland (Yale Cabaret). Upcoming projects include sound designing Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son, and also Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, both at Yale Repertory Theatre.

Originally aired on Richard’s show “Sometimes Classical” on July 12, 2017.

On my WPKN radio show, "A Miniature World," I take a little tumble through the aftershock of the 2016 election and what we're continuing to go through.

How I feel

How you probably feel

Why we may be numb

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We are an automotive discussion program which also includes other modes of transportation info and we try to assist listeners with their automotive questions and concerns.

We are an automotive discussion program which also includes other modes of transportation info and we try to assist listeners with their automotive questions and concerns.

A caller has had a life she described as epic which is now tragic. She wants to turn anxiety to confidence. She is autistic. A second caller has just been told he may have cancer and he has decisions to make. He gets my help and then two callers from our community call in and offer support.

GM Report to the Listeners-JULY

Steve di Costanzo talks about the Transmitter Replacement Project; WPKN’s Podcasts; the new WPKN Official Facebook Page WPKN Independent Community Radio to join our existing WPKN Community Radio Group next weeks ‘Music on Film’ selection at the Bijou the surf film The Endless Summer. Guests include a phoner with Jim Olsen, president of Signature Sounds Records and festival director of the three-day Green River Festival that starts tomorrow at Greenfield Community College; Suzanne Katchmar director of Bridgeport’s City Lights Gallery which is getting ready for the 7th Annual SAMESEX Exhibition and Pride March on Thursday, July 20th ; Mike Moore the President of the Bridgeport DSSD will update us on activities in Bridgeport this summer along with Raz Branch the producer/coordinator of downtown Thursdays; we’ll also talk with Ron Stein , president of The Coltrane Home in Dix Hills celebrating Coltrane Day on July 22 in Long Island.