Dale Ann Bradley | Saturday & Sunday

June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Bluegrass/Americana artist Dale Ann Bradley, who has released albums both as a solo artist and with the New Coon Creek Girls, is known for her distinctive, gentle vocal phrasing and covers of popular (yet non-genre-related) songs by artists such as U2, Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, and Stealer’s Wheel. http://www.daleann.com/

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Gayle Greene | Sleep Starved

June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Gayle Greene [13:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Gayle Greene has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals such as Signs, Contemporary Literature, and Renaissance Drama, many of which have been reprinted in anthologies (e.g., Blackwell¹s Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000,2004). She’s also published in more popular venues such as Ms Magazine, The Nation, The Women’s Review of Books, and In These Times. She’s a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professional medical society for researchers and clinicians, and a board member and the patient representative of the American Insomnia Association, an organization within the American Academic of Sleep Medicine. http://sleepstarved.org/

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Simcha Jacobovici | Lost Tomb of Jesus

June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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It was a great honor to feature Simcha Jacobovici on the show today! A journalist with many awards to his name, and great controversy, we get to the bottom of things in this special long interview… Simcha is an award-winning, controversial documentary film director and producer. His numerous awards include a Gold Medal from the International Documentary Festival of Nyon, a certificate of Special Merit from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, a Genie Award, three U.S. Cable Ace Awards, two Gemini Awards, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award, a British Broadcast Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award. Jacobovici has also won the Emmy for “Outstanding Investigative Journalism” an unprecedented three times (1996, 1997 and 2007). http://www.simchaj.ca/

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Mac Morin | Piano Genius

June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Mac Morin [16:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Mac Morin, dancer, piano & keyboard player, is a talented Troy, Cape Breton native whose ancestors were noted Cape Breton step dancers for several generations (including Mary C. MacDonald Morin - Mother - and John R.’Roddie Eddie’ MacDonald - Grandfather). Mac has been dancing for over 10 years, first being taught by his mother and then the talented Warner sisters of Mabou, Cape Breton. Since then he has taken on the role as teacher in various private and workshop venues across North America and in Europe. Mac has been playing with Natalie MacMaster again since the summer of 2006 and within that time, has recorded and toured with The Rankin Family, Howie MacDonald, Mary Jane Lamond, Bela Fleck, Ian MacDougall, and members of Beolach. He continues to travel to teach Cape Breton step dancing http://www.macmorin.com/

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Raymond Benson | Writing 007

June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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RAYMOND BENSON wrote six original James Bond novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories—all published worldwide. His most recently published thrillers are A HARD DAY’s DEATH (the first in a series of “rock ‘n’ roll thrillers”) and the novelization of the popular videogame METAL GEAR SOLID. As “David Michaels” Raymond was the author of the NY Times best-sellers TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL and TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL—OPERATION BARRACUDA. Raymond’s other recent original thrillers are FACE BLIND, EVIL HOURS, and SWEETIE’S DIAMONDS. An anthology of some of his 007 work will be published in October 2008. www.raymondbenson.com

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Jeanie Ransom | When Parents Aren’t Home

June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Jeanie Ransom is a children’s author and licenced professional counselor who writes funny books or self-help books for kids. She started writing at age 17 and since then she has continued to write for magazines and newspapers, worked as a radio station copywriter, a public relations writer, an editor and writer at a bed-and-breakfast travel magazine, and as a writer at several different advertising agencies. www.jeanieransom.com

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Susan Benjamin | Business Communication

June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Susan Benjamin, host of the popular talk radio show The Greater Voice, has been a business problem-solver for almost twenty years. Publications from the Wall Street Journal to the Chicago Tribune have featured Susan’s novel approaches to team management while her commentaries on communications-related issues have appeared in newspapers including USA Today, the Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, Government Executive and hundreds of others. Susan Benjamin is an established communications expert and has appeared on CNN, Business Talk Radio, National Public Radio, Roaring Women Radio and other broadcasts http://www.susanfbenjamin.com/

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Molly Mason | Ashokan Music

June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Husband and wife duo Jay Ungar and Molly Mason perform some of the greatest songs of ’60s… 1860s that is. They share a mission of unearthing traditional American fiddle and dance gems from Civil war songs to New England contra songs to country swing tunes and bringing them to a new generation of listeners in search of a simpler time. http://www.jayandmolly.com

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Aaron Lazar | Writing & Loons

June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Aaron Lazar [8:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In addition to receiving publishing contracts for Double Forte’, Upstaged, Tremolo: cry of the loon, Mazurka, Healey’s Cave, and One Potato, Blue Potato, Aaron writes “Seedlings,” a monthly column featured in the Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine (FMAM) and the Mysteryfiction.net literary newsletter “Voice in the Dark.”. His short articles on writing have appeared in Absolute Write,and his short essay, “Word Paintings” was included in the 2007 Bylines Writers’ Desk Calendar. Check out the Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine for the flash fiction piece, “Follow the Leader” and visit his blogs at www.murderby4.blogspot.com and www.aaronlazar.blogspot.com. Aaron is the Saturday Writing Essential host on Gather.com. Aaron works as an electrophotographic engineer at Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester, New York, but his true passion lies in writing. While currently working on his thirteenth novel, he also enjoys gardening; cooking family feasts; photography, cross-country skiing, classical music, and French Impressionist art. Although he adored raising his delightful daughters, he finds grandfathering his “two little buddies” one of life’s finest experiences. http://www.legardemysteries.com/tremolocryoftheloon.htm

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Dr. Julia Hallisy | Empowered Patient

June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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The Empowered Patient, has produced a readable, comprehensive, and above all, a usable guide to the modern healthcare maze. It is crucial to know what to do when seeking healthcare in our complicated and multi-faceted system, and this valuable resource will draw a clear path for the reader. www.TheEmpoweredPatient.com. Dr. Julia Hallisy obtained her BS in Biological Science from the University of San Francisco in 1984 and her Doctorate in Dental Surgery from the University of California at San Francisco school of Dentistry in 1988. Dr. Hallisy is committed to and passionate about the subjects of patient safety and medical error reduction. Dr. Hallisy was born and raised in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and two teenage sons

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Stefan Sagmeister | Art & Design

June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Today we spoke with Stefan Sagmeister — it was a real pleasure. His newest book is called Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far.This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far, which includes statements such as “Worrying solves nothing” and “Trying to look good limits my life.” The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easily achieved. And we need constant reminders to keep us on the right path. With the support of his clients, Sagmeister transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in France to sign-toting inflatable monkeys on the streets of Scotland. Accompanied by essays from design historian Steven Heller, Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector, and UK psychologist Daniel Nettle, as well as Sagmeister’s own words, the series is revealed as a complex blend of personal revelation, art, and design—an eclectic mix of visual audacity and sound advice Stefan is the founder of the New York based Sagmeister Inc. Since 1993, he has designed branding, graphics and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner. He is a five time Grammy nominee and actually won a Grammy for the Talking Heads boxed set. Stefan has won practically every important international design award. In 2001 a best selling monograph about his work Sagmeister, Made you Look was published by Booth-Clibborn editions. Solo shows on Sagmeister Inc’s work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne and Seoul. He teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Stanton Chair at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Stefan lectures regularly all over the world. http://www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/

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Steven Wax | Kafka, Justice & Terror

June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Through the gripping inside-stories of two of the most highly publicized terrorism cases of the 21st century, KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE IN THE WAR ON TERROR (Other Press; June 3, 2008) by Steven Wax shines a spotlight on one of the most critical issues faced by Americans today. This is the saga of one public defender’s struggle to rescue two innocent men from the often absurd practices of our judicial system – a system now tainted by the loss of our civil liberties in the name of the war on terror. It presents the well-known true story of Brandon Mayfield, an American-born lawyer and family man living in Oregon, who was mistakenly arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid bombings because of an incorrectly identified fingerprint. It also describes the lesser-known story of Adel Hamad, a Sudanese Hospital administrator, who was taken from his apartment in Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo as part of an anti-Arab sweep intended to satisfy the American government’s new security initiatives. Together, these stories present a clear and immediate picture that everyone’s rights are in jeopardy in the war on terror. A patriotic American and strong believer in our judicial system, Wax has served twenty-five years as a federal public defender. As a result, he is well positioned to present a sharp picture of both how we’ve come to lose our civil liberties and how we must all fight for our constitutional rights. http://www.otherpress.com/bookpage.php?bkID=540

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Olof A. Ericksen | Immigrant Memoir

June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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As a child in Norway, Olof A. Ericksen lived through the atrocities of World War II, then suffered a brutal upbringing. As an adult, he was a victim of numerous unscrupulous business dealings in America, and eleven times in his life he came face-to-face with death. Memoirs of an Immigrant is a true story that takes readers from the Land of the Midnight Sun to America and from World War II to today, as it shows one man’s ability to rise above impossible circumstances to build a victorious life. http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Immigrant-Olof-Eriksen/dp/1432710141

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Cindi Myers | Soldier & Romance

June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Cindi believes in writing fun, sexy romances about people she hopes readers will fall in love with. She sold her first novel in 1997 and writing as Cynthia Sterling, she wrote seven historical romances for Berkley and Kensington before turning to contemporary fiction. Almost half a million copies of Cindi’s books have been published around the world. Her books have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, and Greek. http://www.cindimyers.com/

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