This week on WPKN

Benefit Concerts This Week in Newtown and Bridgeport Friday, November 18, 8:00 PM The Breakfast and Cosmic Jibaros at the Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, CT. Social awareness takes on a certain power when mixed with pulsating rhythm; shake the soul, and the mind will follow. The Bridgeport-based Cosmic Jibaros embody this creed, for the seven-piece Latin rock unit will often cause emphatic dance and curious ponder at the same time. The evening continues with The Breakfast. The Jammy Award winner is poised to bring their singular brand of music to a much wider audience and you have a chance to hear the band that critics and musicians have been raving about.Tickets are $20.00 and proceeds benefit WPKN. Much more info, directions and ticket outlets are listed online: www.wpkn.org/concert. Sunday, November 20, at 6:00 PM The Love At Work Revue will be performing for a WPKN benefit show at the Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, CT . The Love at Work Band is a Litchfield County musical group that performs original and timeless songs with guitars, fiddle, harmonicas, recorder, stand up bass and lyrical vocals by Kath Bloom, Stan Bronski, and Tom Hanford, with guest vocalist Heidi Randall. Many other guests are also going to appear. For complete info see the web site: wpkn.org/benefits. Monday, November 14 8:00 PM - Counterpoint Counterpoint host Scott Harris features the following interviews:

• Representative of US Tour of Duty veterans group speaking out in opposition to the Iraq War.
• Jeremy Brecher, co-author of In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond, discusses his book and the war.
• Paul Silverstein, associate professor of anthropology Reed College examines the wave of immigrant riots in France.
• DeeDee Halleck, Paper Tiger Television, assesses current threat to US public access television.

Some edited audio files of Counterpoint interviews can be found on theBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine website www.btlonline.org. Tuesday, November 15 5:30 PM - Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Summary of some of the week's under-reported news stories and

• Some Congressional Democrats Now Push for White House Accountability on False Pre-Iraq War Claims. Interview with U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y. conducted by Richard Hill
• Anti-Bush Protests and Free Trade Deadlock Mark Summit of the Americas. Interview with Tom Barry, policy director of the International Relations Center, conducted by Scott Harris
• Progressive Groups Fear Radical Right Supreme Court Shift if Alito Confirmed. Interview with Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, conducted by Scott Harris.

Audio files of this program can be heard/downloaded/ podcast at http://www.btlonline.org. A new addition of Between The Lines can be heard every Wednesday morning at 8:00 am. The program is rebroadcast each Saturday at 2:00 pm and Tuesday at 5:30pm. Wednesday, November 16th 8:00 PM - Live from Where? presents English folk singer Pete Morton. In our first return engagement in the Live from... where? series, we are pleased to welcome back English folksinger and guitarist Pete Morton to WPKN's Studio 207 in Bridgeport CT. Come be in the audience, or listen on the air. For audience reservations, call 203 331 9756 Friday, November 18 7:45 PM - live performance by Krizta Moon Krizta Moon (who sings with the WHO WHO's, a harmonic female folk band, and has written music for an Emmy award winning documentary film) in a live solo performance. Her voice has been described as "sultry sweet with dreamy grit," her songs as eliciting "mystical warmth and devious charm." Friday Night, Saturday Morning, November 19 2:00 AM - special guest Simon Hunter The redoubtable Simon Hunter returns to WPKN to co-host Off-Beat with his unique blend of obscure but enticing (and often danceable) tunes drawn from the nether regions of the British Empire and far beyond. Sunday, November 20 10:00 PM - David Schwartz Blair Tindall is a journalist and musician who has performed, toured and recorded with the New York Philharmonic. Her book "Mozart in the Jungle" is a look inside the life of a musician. The book chronicle Tindall's musical biography and her personal transformation into something else. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at wpkn.org/mail. WPKN will never sell/share your email address. Thanks for being with us! Your friends at WPKN/WPKM