Radio Highlights

Here are a few of the program specials coming up on WORT 89.9 FM...

WORT RADIO HIGHLIGHTS for the week beginning July 27, 2007

Voted "Favorite local radio station" in the 2006 "Madison's Favorites" 
poll conducted by Isthmus. “Back to the Country” (Wednesday 9am Noon 
with host Bill Malone) voted #3 “Favorite local radio show.”

Compiled by Diapoulos and Mitroff
For more information call: (608) 256 2001
News & Public Affairs Facilitator: K.P. Whaley
Music Director: Sybil Augustine
www.wort-fm.org
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First Tuesdays Reggae
A monthly benefit for WORT at the Cardinal Bar & Dancehall, 418 E.
Wilson St. featuring: Supa Ranks and His Rock Stone High Power;
Tropical Riddims Sound System. Cover of $5 benefits WORT. Doors open 
8pm. This is an 18 years and older event!

August 7th
September 4th
October 2nd
November 6th
December 4th

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A PUBLIC AFFAIR
Monday through Friday, Noon-1 p.m. A Public Affair is WORT's live
call in interview program. Listener questions and comments encouraged at
256-2001.

7/30, Monday
Host Norm Stockwell speaks with filmmaker Dave Von Kleist about his new 
DVD “9-11 Ripple Effect”, described as the most professionally produced 
and up to date 9/11 documentary ever made. This latest collaboration by 
Dave Von Kleist and William Lewis, the truth-seeking duo that released 
the notorious “911 In Plane Site” expounds on and exposes the 
inconsistencies in the official “9/11” explanation using video and 
photographic evidence presented to all of us throughout the day of 
September 11, 2001.

8/1, Wednesday
Host M.J. LePlae speaks with Doctors Robert and Sonia Bogl, the 
President and Vice President of organization responsible for “The 
Illinois Renewable Energy Fair which is happening in August.

8/8, Wednesday
Host Tonya Brito talks with Wendy Paget Henderson, Juvenile Justice and 
Child Welfare Policy Analyst, Wisconsin Council on Children and 
Families. She will discuss the Justice for Wisconsin Youth Project and 
its effort to return 17 year olds to Juvenile Court.

9/5, Wednesday
Host Tonya Brito talks with Debora Spar, Spangler Family Professor at 
Harvard Business School and author of “The Baby Business: How Money, 
Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception.”


MINDS EYE RADIO
11pm Midnight, the 1st Friday of each month.
Theme shows produced by Madison's Minds Eye Radio Collective.

8/3 In the Attic
9/7 Word Play
10/5 Joke Show
11/2 A Leap in the Dark
12/7 Dreams


ACCESS HOUR
Monday, 7-8pm. A different individual or group from the community hosts 
the program each week! Music, discussion, and lots more! For information 
about hosting an Access Hour, call 256-2001 on Monday at 8pm immediately 
following the show or email: accesshour@yahoo.com.

7/30
Join DJ Red Velvet as she makes her return to the Access Hour to share 
more retro elevator hits. This time listeners will enjoy a musical trip 
around the world with easy listening that captures the spirit of Brazil, 
Hawaii, Mexico and other destinations. It's time to celebrate 
underappreciated elevator music – going up?

8/13
A program about “Alternative Queers”. It is entitled, “Critical Sass" - 
An hour of radical queer theory, politics, culture, and music.

8/20
Hosts Anthony Rineer and David Anderson of West High School produce a 
program of modern alternative music “Onion”-type false news interludes.

8/27
This program concerns “Tango”! An introduction to the history, culture, 
and sounds of Tango with a special selection of classics recorded by 
Tango legend Carlos Gardel. Also included will be various Tango artists 
(classic and contemporary) and their own interpretations of Gardel’s 
most popular songs. Following that will be a sampling from the biggest 
names in Tango during what is now called "The Golden Age of 
Tango"(1920-1950).

9/10
This program concerns the Jewish progressive movement.

9/17
Producers will listen to the genius of Jimi Hendrix. It will include 
music spanning his days as a sideman in the “chitlin' circuit” to his 
untimely death as a rock superstar in 1970.

9/24
A live radio theater performance of “The Community Radio Murders”

10/1
Art Paul Schlosser welcomes people to listen, call up and comment on 
what they would call the kind of music he’s playing.

10/8
This program will be about the community efforts in New Orleans to get 
residents back in their homes … neighborhoods banding together to fill 
the gaps left by the state/local and federal governments in the 
rebuilding. Ashleigh Ross is talking with people about types of 
assistance they have received and how grassroots efforts facilitated 
their return, with environmental and sustainable examples. The focus 
will be mostly on the Lower 9th Ward and the 7th Ward, both communities 
of low socio-economic status.

10/22
WORT volunteer coordinator Glenn Mitroff hosts a show with youth and 
adult leaders from the “Dane County Youth Resource Network” about the 
upcoming “Positive Youth Involvement Week” in Dane County.

10/29
Jehovah's Witness Clock Tower Radio Ministry with Reverend Two Cups!
Eliot Tennyson, Donald Oblongata, and gang will talk theology, physical 
science, and the "Number 2" on this special Halloween Edition.

11/5
This show will be on the Madison labor movement in general, with a focus 
on a series of racist incidents that took place in the Memorial Union 
kitchen. The show will also include rebel music and jokes. Listeners are 
encouraged to call in with their own stories of struggle on the job.

11/19
This is a show for Thanksgiving.

11/26
A program on women’s health and the environment, particularly relating 
to fertility challenges like endometriosis.

12/03
Don will produce a program around the theme of radical politics as 
stated in heavy metal music.

12/10
A local mom of three and aunt of thirteen shares her favorite lullabies 
and thoughts about how they magically calm, soothe, and nourish young 
children and parents. Listeners should have a soft blanket and favorite 
teddy bear close at hand.


FICTION JONES
3rd, 4th and 5th Fridays of the month, 11pm Midnight
Host Gregg Williard continues with “A Journal of the Blank Year”, a non- 
sequential serialized novel with a style that crosses Proust with 
Phillip K. Dick. Although you probably won’t want to miss a single 
episode, the novel is designed so that each chapter stands alone. Tune 
in whenever you can!

7/20
Chapter 58 of “A Journal of the Blank Year”

7/27
Chapter 59 of “A Journal of the Blank Year”



MUSIC PROGRAM SPECIALS

7/21
Crazeology, (Madison's only all night jazz show), Friday 
Midnight-Saturday 6am Join host Uncle Larry as he celebrates July 21st 
in jazz history with anniversary sessions from Chet Baker, Miles Davis, 
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Bobby Hutcherson, Ellis Larkins, Charlie 
Shoemake, Francis Wong, and Mutually Assured Distraction. Show # 945

7/28
Crazeology, (Madison's only all night jazz show), Friday 
Midnight-Saturday 6am Join host Uncle Larry as he celebrates July 28th 
in jazz history with anniversary sessions from Al Haig, Lou Donaldson, 
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Gary Burton, and Keith Jarrett. 
Show # 946

8/1
Kosmik Radiation, Wednesday 2-5am
A show dedicated to heavy, psychedelic, progressive and underground 
music from the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of 
the 21st.
"Live in Concert" - all live recordings.

8/2
Psychoacoustics, Thursday 8-11pm with the Hour of Slack at 10pm
Join Bad Sister Heidi for a Mike Patton special featuring Tomahawk.

8/4
Crazeology, (Madison's only all night jazz show), Friday 
Midnight-Saturday 6am Join host Uncle Larry as he celebrates August 4th 
in jazz history with anniversary sessions from Lester Young with Oscar 
Peterson, Charlie Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Miles Davis with Gil Evans, 
Wynton Kelly, Scott Fields, and The Marsalis Family..
Show # 947

8/10
Live and Local, second friday of the month 11-midnight.
This week's featured artists are Nancy Rost, Amy Curl and Burr Settles
recorded at the Wild Hog in the Woods on June 8th to showcase their February Alb
um Writing Month compositions.

8/11
Crazeology, (Madison's only all night jazz show), Friday 
Midnight-Saturday 6am Join host Uncle Larry as he celebrates August 11th 
in jazz history with anniversary sessions from Thad Jones, Clifford 
Brown, Lee Morgan, Donald Brown, When Granny Sleeps, Pete Christlieb, 
and Bobby Matos with John Santos. Show # 948

8/18
Crazeology, (Madison's only all night jazz show), Friday 
Midnight-Saturday 6am Join host Uncle Larry as he celebrates August 18th 
in jazz history with anniversary sessions from Hank Mobley, Miles Davis 
with Gil Evans, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington with Coleman Hawkins, 
Walter Norris with George Mraz, Dannie Richmond with The Last Mingus 
Band, Niels Lan Doky, Rick Stephenson, and Houston Person with Ron 
Carter. Show # 949

8/25
Crazeology, (Madison's only all night jazz show), Friday 
Midnight-Saturday 6am Join host Uncle Larry as he celebrates August 25th 
in jazz history with anniversary sessions from Lee Morgan, Jimmy Smith, 
Trio Hurricane, Helen Merrill with Gil Evans, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, James 
Wiedman, and Joey & Papa John DeFrancesco.. Show # 950

NEW DISC(S) AT NINE: Mon-Thurs nights, one or more NEW DISCS are played 
at 9pm, during the 8-11pm rock show.

7/31 The Original Wilson Brothers, 8-11pm
Buffalo Tom—“3 of A Kind”

8/2 Psychoacoustics, 8-11pm with the Hour of Slack at 10pm
Tomahawk—“Anonymous”