What will be the big stories and what will matter most to you in 2011? Next time at noon we’ll peer into the future with Zac Crain and Peter Simek, contributors to the current D Magazine cover story “20 for 2011: the People & Ideas That Will Shape the Year in Dallas.”
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From the archives: Where is the smelliest place in the Solar System? Where is surfing most intense? Why is a lighting bolt on Earth the thickness of a common household banana? In September, we explored the strangest phenomena in our corner of the galaxy with David Baker, Chairman of the Physics Department at Austin College and co-author of “The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System” (Belknap Harvard, 2010).
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What were your favorite albums and who were your favorite performers in 2010? We’ll discuss the year in music this hour with Mario Tarradell, music critic for The Dallas Morning News and Preston D. Jones, music critic for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Stephen Becker will guest host.
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From the archives: What would motivate a super-star athlete to leave his career and join the military? We explored the admirable honor of Pat Tillman last August with acclaimed writer Jon Krakauer who covered Tillman’s life and the U.S. Military and Bush Administration cover-up of the truth about his death in the book “Where Men Win Glory” (Anchor Books, Paperback, 2010).
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Will Interstate 69, the actual “NAFTA Highway” ever be constructed? We’ll examine the issue this hour with journalist Matt Dellinger, whose latest book is “Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway” (Scribner, 2010). Alan Melson will guest-host.
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From the archives: What’s great about chocolate? Where is the best cacao grown and what goes into getting it on the plate? We discussed every step of the process last summer with chocolate expert Adrienne Newman, Wiseman House Chocolatier Kevin Wenzel and Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek Executive Pastry Chef David Collier.
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How did Frank Sinatra become one of the greatest stars of the 20th Century? We’ll talk this hour with James Kaplan, author of the highly-acclaimed new biography “Frank: The Voice” (Doubleday, 2010). Stephen Becker will guest-host.
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From the archives: How is language changing and what do we lose when a language disappears forever? In July we talked with linguist and author David Crystal. His latest work is “A Little Book of Language” (Yale, 2010).
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When the places that you love are threatened, what would galvanize you into taking positive action? We’ll discuss the safeguarding of Texas’ open spaces with David Todd, project director for the Conservation History Association of Texas and co-editor of the new book “The Texas Legacy Project: Stories of Courage & Conservation” (Texas A&M University Press, 2010). In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with Archaeologist Michelle Rich, who led the team that discovered Mayan funerary treasures featured prominently in the Kimbell exhibition “Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea.”
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How did family jealousy culminate in the assassination of one of America’s greatest presidents? We’ll find out this hour with historian Nora Titone, whose new book is “My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy” (Free Press, 2010).
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What are the hot and not-so-hot holiday movies this season? We’ll get the picks and pans of this year’s crop of films with a panel of our favorite critics this hour Stephen Becker of KERA’s Art&Seek, Chris Kelly of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News.
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How did a small desert town on the Persian Gulf become a shining beacon of global capitalism and how has the economic downturn tarnished its image? We’ll talk this hour with the former Associated Press Persian Gulf correspondent, Jim Krane. His book “City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism” (Picador, 2010) is now out in paperback.
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