Saturday, February 17, 2018 From sound without pictures–radio–to pictures without sound–silent films. Yesterday I co-hosted the Duck Soup Cinema vaudeville with veteran emcee Joe Thompson onstage at the Capitol Theater in Madison prior to the showing of Mantrap starring “It Girl” Clara … Continue reading
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Sierra Club founder John Muir (1838-1914) was one of those rare scientists who was also a great storyteller. Muir and his times come alive through his prose in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth and other writings. It’s great stuff! And … Continue reading
Radio Madness and I Return to Green Bay On Saturday, May 19, 2018, at 3 and 7 pm, I’ll host two Old-Time Radio recreations presented by Radio Madness in the Brown County Central Library. Saturday, February 17, 2018 … Continue reading
Set in an era of scoops and flashbulbs and Ponzi schemes, Chasers comes to Wisconsin Public Radio at 8:30 on Saturday night, November 11. Tune in to https://www.wpr.org/programs/old-time-radio-drama and see if you can identify the mysterious fleeing felon before two … Continue reading
On Saturday, July 22, 2017, at 8 pm, Wisconsin Public Radio will present a new adaptation of the Oscar Wilde supernatural comedy The Canterville Ghost. The performance will take place in the Door Community Auditorium and features elements Oscar Wilde’s 1887 … Continue reading
Teaching Today: Frontiers or Frontlines? An Address to Faculty at the UW Colleges Colloquium I can’t expect to tell you anything new about teaching because you experience it face-to-face routinely whereas the people I inform are mostly unseen, are free … Continue reading
On May 24, 2017, it was my pleasure to give the keynote address for the UW Colleges colloquium at UW-Fox Valley. The audience of faculty from around the state was lively and attentive. The topic “Teaching Today: Frontiers or Frontlines?” … Continue reading
Listen to Wisconsin Public Radio on Saturday, May 13, from 11 am to noon and Sunday, May 14, from 8 to 9 am Central Time as I match wits with the seasoned panelists of Boston-based Says You! Listen to the … Continue reading
According to a survey of filmgoers, it’s…the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Is it the green face, the long crooked fingers and hook nose or that raspy but convincing voice? Whatever it was–and is–Margaret Hamilton’s witch wears … Continue reading
The Boston-based public radio show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy will be recording in La Crosse on Sunday, May 7, and yours truly will be a guest panelist. I was on the show several years ago–you may have … Continue reading