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We speak with Joycelyn Fish, Marketing and Development Director at the Racine Theater Guild, about a free special event coming up this Sunday afternoon, October 4th, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the current home of the Racine Theater Guild. (There is no admission charge, but people are asked to reserve a free ticket either through the box office or via the guild's website, which is racinetheatre.org.). In the conversation, we also look back at the challenging years when the RTG did not have a location of its own- and about the years when it presented live theater in a small, converted church- and about the considerable discussion and planning that went into designing and constructing what is its current home.

From 2023- Sharon Price John, author of "Stories and Heart: Unlock the Power of Personal Stories to Create a Life You Love."

We talk about the narrated musical work "Lovers of Liberty" that will be performed as part of the dedication of the newly refurbished Ceremonial Courtroom in the Kenosha County Courthouse this weekend. We speak with Julia Nowicki, who had primary responsible for putting the work together, Ben Woods, who is serving as its narrator, and Jesse Gomez and Heather Kamikawa, who are two of the string musicians participating in these performances. Sunday afternoon at 1:30 is the public's primary opportunity to experience this work.

We connect with singer/Songwriter Nellie McKay, who is returning to Kenosha's White Lilac on Thursday evening, October 1st - at 8 p.m. McKay has enjoyed a wide-ranging career that has run the gamut from singing in intimate cabarets to starring in a show on Broadway. The White Lilac is located at 5029 6th Avenue. Their phone number is (262) 515-1967 .... and their website is whitelilackenosha.com.

From 2020 - Dr. Clyde D. L. Wynne, author of "Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You."

*Intermittently through the month of September, we are airing newly reocrded and archival interviews to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11." We share a 2002 interview with Cathy Trost, co-author of "Running Toward Danger," a book from the Newseum in which more than 100 journalists talk about the challenges they faced in trying to cover the chaotic, painful events of September 11, 2001.

We speak with Deborah Roberts, a Senior National Affairs Correspondent for ABC News- and co-host of 20/20, which begins its newest season Friday night, September 25th.

We preview the performances of "Elegies: A Song Cycle" by William Finn with director Molly Fuller and with three students who are part of the cast: Brayden Follett, Dom Luzwick, and Maria Romero. The performances will occur over the next two weekends in Carthage's Wartburg Auditorium.

We are resharing a portion of a 2025 conversation with two-time Grammy Award nominee Laura Strickling, a classically-trained soprano who is singing a recital tonight (Tuesday) at 7;30 in Carthage College's JAC Recital Hall as part of the school's performing arts series.

We talk about LAUNCH KENOSHA with Joseph Tenuta, who is Rogers Palmers Distinguished Professor in Business, Department Chair of Management, and Assistant Professor of Management.

From 2025- Kevin Wade talks about his novel "Johnny Careless."

From 2006 - As the Metropolitan Opera celebrates the start of its 20th anniversary Live in HD series, we replay a 2006 conversation with Julie Borcard-Young , who at the time was acting director of marketing for the Met .... and the primary coordinator of the Live in HD series both then and to the present day. This special anniversary season of simulcasts is being celebrated with a special program featuring highlights from some of the 185 simulcasts that the Met has shared over the past 20 years. This special will be screened at hundreds of movie theaters across the country, including Racine's Renaissance Theater., at 1:00 today (Saturday, Sept. 19th.) (Kenosha's Tinseltown is not screening today's special but will be participating in the remainder of this special anniversary season.)

We talk with best-selling novelist Ryan Steck about his latest suspense thriller, "Target Down."

The Metropolitan Opera is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its groundbreaking Live in HD series .... in which live performances from the Met are beamed to hundreds of movie theaters across the country. This interview with Met general mangers Peter Gelb was recorded in the fall of 2006, right before the first of the 185 simulcasts that have been seen over the past two decades. This 20th anniversary season of simulcasts is actually beginning with a special program featuring highlights from past simulcasts. Beloved soprano Renee Fleming is the host. The special will be screened at Racine's Renaissance Theater on Saturday, September 19th, at 1 pm. (Kenosha's Tinseltown Theater is not showing tomorrow's special- but will be showing the simulcasts comprising the rest of the season.). More information is available at metopera.org.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center on September 16, 1966, we replay a portion of a conversation with Susan Froemke, who directed and co-produced a documentary film titled "The Opera House". that chronicles the long and complicated story of how the Met found it necessary to find a new home, the arduous process by which the location and design of that new home, and the monumental challenges involved with the world premiere production of Samuel Barber's ANTONY & CLEOPATRA that opened the house with Leontyne Price. (The film can be view via the Met's website, metopera.org.)