News/Talk Highlights for Friday, May 27 presents:

News/Talk Highlights for Friday, May 27

 Check out Today's Rainbow Minute!!!
 
The Rainbow Minute
(Locally produced for WRIR)
08:59
12:29
04:29
The 1000th Episode!
(and the 1st episode)
Studio 360
09:00
David Simon's "Treme",
Rickie Lee Jones and more
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Open Source with Will Snyder
(Locally produced for WRIR)
10:00
Call in to discuss local issues
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Wordy Birds with Liz Humes
(Locally produced for WRIR)
12:00
Hidden Histories host and
author, Jack R. Johnson 
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Zero Hour with Tim Bowring
(Locally produced for WRIR)
12:30
Artist, Colin Bowring
Sound Opinions
01:00
Mike Watt of The Minutemen
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Talk of the Nation
02:00
Hail from microbes;  Lunar
crystals = more moon water
— and much more…
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And Be Sure to Come to the Rainbow Minute Ice Cream Social
Today at Sprout (1 N. Harrison) between 3 pm and 6 pm

 

 
 
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The Rainbow Minute (8:59, 12:29, 4:29)
Today:  The 1,000th Episode… and the 1st episode!
 
 
Studio 360 (9:00)
Today:
– Online voice lessons for aspiring pop stars
– David Simon's "Treme"
– Rickie Lee Jones
 
 
Open Source  with Will Snyder  (10:00)
 Local News and information plus listeners can call-in to discuss and comment:  804-649-9737  or email to:  [email protected]
 Today’s Topics:  …
1. Passenger rail in the Richmond region. Guest :  Daniel Plaugher, Executive Director of Virginians for High Speed Rail
2. A look at urbran sprawl and it's affect on the inner ring suburbs.   Guest:  Michela Zonta of VCU's L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.
 
 
 
Tell Me More (11:00)
 
 
 
 
Wordy Birds with Liz Humes (12:00)
 Today:  Jack R. Johnson, author of An "Animal's Guide to Earthly Salvation."
 
 
 
Zero Hour with Tim Bowring (12:30)
Today:  Colin Bowring, artist — and the host's nephew
 
 
Sound Opinions (1:00)
Today:   Mike Watt of the California punk band The Minutemen talks about the band's history, legacy and influential album Double Nickels on the Dime.
 
 
 
Talk of the Nation, Science Friday (2:00)
Today:
HOUR 1
– Hail and ice from microbes
– Is math ingrained into humans
– The origin of the word “Syphilis”
HOUR 2
– Lunar crystals indicate more water on the moon
– President Kennedy’s “Moon Speech” turns 50
 
 
 
Progressive Radio (4:30)
Today:    Vivek Chibber, one of the co-editors of the Socialist Register and an associate professor of sociology at NYU.

Dennis J

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    May 27th, 2011

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