Saturday, May 31 on WPKN

2:00 a.m Rich Kaminsky, Off-Beat 6:00 a.m. World of Radio 6:30 a.m. Dave Zinovenko, The Carousel 10:00 a.m. Annette Szczesiul 2:00 p.m. Between The Lines 2:30 p.m. Deb Guhl 6:00 p.m. Don Duffy 10:00 p.m. Mikki, Mikki's Room Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Friday, May 30 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. John Corvino, Johnny Be Good 6:00 a.m. Doug Echols (fill-in for Glenn Hochstetter) 10:00 a.m. Ruth Eddy 1:00 p.m. Radio Nation 2:00 p.m. John Motavalli 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Kathy DeMino 7:40 p.m. Ray Terlaga 10:00 p.m. Rod Richardson, Radio Nothing (fill-in for Bob Chameko) Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Ruth Eddy's Fifth Friday Fill-In

10:00 a.m. - Ruth Eddy Ruth Eddy will be filling in for Amazon Radio on this 5th Friday of May. As luck would have it, this also happens to be Harry Minot's last day as the General Manager of WPKN after 30 years! Come along for the ride. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Thursday, May 29 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Doug Echols 6:00 a.m. Cliff Furnald, Working Title 10:00 a.m. Binnie Klein 12:00 noon Progressive Radio 1:00 p.m. Counterspin 1:30 p.m. Latino USA 2:00 p.m. Bob Balogh 5:30 p.m. WINGS - Women's International News Gathering Service 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Bob Shapiro, In the Evening 10:00 p.m. Ed Flynn's Rock 'n' Roll Hootenany Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Wednesday, May 28 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Terry Hopper, The Quest 6:00 a.m. Ebong Udoma 8:00 a.m. Between The Lines 8:30 a.m. Ebong Udoma 10:00 a.m. Richard Epstein, Sometimes Classical 2:00 p.m. Phil Bowler, Jazz Adventures 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Chris Teskey Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Tuesday, May 27 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Doug Echols 6:00 a.m. Dave O & I-Tone, Irie Feelings 10:00 a.m. Michael Benson 2:00 p.m. The Singers' Circle 3:00 p.m. Doug Echols 5:30 p.m. Between The Lines 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Jim Motavalli 10:00 p.m. Annette Szczesiul Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

The Singers' Circle

2:00 p.m. - Suzanne Vick & Melissa Mulligan, The Singers' Circle “The Singers’ Circle” is delighted to have Jonny Rodgers joining us in the studio this month. Jonny began his music career as the guitarist for the band Mighty Purple, touring and releasing albums internationally since the mid 1990s, and sharing stages with some of the biggest names in pop and rock music today. Jonny has also released a number of albums as a solo performer. His latest solo album, The Aviary, combines the instrumentation and harmonies of classical and modern chamber music with the energy and intensity of the rock/pop world. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

This afternoon on Between the Lines

5:30 pm - Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine A review of the week's under-reported news stories and this week's interview segments:

• "House Defeats Iraq War Funding, Measure Likely to be Approved in the Senate." Interview with Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, conducted by Scott Harris.
• "Campaign Launched to Increase Awareness of Global Warming Breaking Point." Interview with Bill McKibben, author and climate activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. 
• "California Court Approves Gay Marriage, Major Referendum Battle is Set for November." Interview with Wayne Beson, founding executive director of the Gay rights group, Truth Wins Out, conducted by Scott Harris.

Free program summaries, interview transcripts, more info: http://www.btlonline.org/ Technorati tags: gay marriage, global warming

Monday, May 26 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Steve di Costanzo, Radio Base Camp 6:00 a.m. Samba, Zanj Radio 10:00 a.m. Victor Pachera, Jazz Classics 2:00 p.m. Nick Jacobs, Music, Sacred and Profane 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Patrick O'Sullivan, Jazz Variations 7:30 p.m. This Way Out 8:00 p.m. Scott Harris, Counterpoint 10:00 p.m. J.F., Nazmo Radio Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris

• Sergeant Matthis Chiroux, of Iraq Veterans Against the War explains why he is refusing to report to Active Duty for deployment to Iraq.
• Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses the recent FBI Inspector General's report on the agency's role in torturing U.S. held detainees.
• Nadine Bloch of Oil Change International, talks about the skyrocketing price of energy, public policy and the power of the oil companies.
• Wayne Madsen, investigative journalist, author, and former communications security analyst with the National Security Agency, describes how he was recently targeted for interrogation and intimidation at Ronald Reagan National Airport.

An archive of Counterpoint programs are accessible for free at http://www.whiterosesociety.org/. Technorati tags: torture, oil, anti-war

Live music tonight!

7:30 p.m. - Bill Nolan's Antinqu Blues Spring & Summer Concerts Johnny Feds & The Bluez Boyz Kick ass Blues band from Westchester. Wicked high energy kick-ass blues! Once Da Boyz get cookin' they'll boogie your woogie 'till you can't find your way home! All concerts are FREE and open to the public. Performance starts on scheduled Sunday’s at 7:30 PM and broadcast from WPKN studios. Call WPKN for more information or reservations about this program. Upcoming shows:

• June 8th Misbhavin Danny Kean is so hot you can't touch him with asbestos gloves And Pat Hunter, ooo wee there is nothing or nobody around like her she's got a thing all her own she ain't imating nobody, Damn she know them blues!"
• June 22nd Patty Tuite & Band - Patty Tuite is a seasoned singer/songwriter/musician from Connecticut with a varied background based primarily in swinging blues, classic R&B and jazz.
• June 29th Mark Nomad - Singer and guitarist from western Massachusetts, performing solo or with a band, redefines the Skip James, Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker.
• July 13th Rocky Lawrence - Rocky Lawrence had already made a reputation for himself as a brilliant electric blues guitarist on the East Coast and in the Midwest. A student of Muddy Waters, Hubert Sumlin and Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, Lawrence was no stranger to the blues scene.
• July 20th Kerry Kearney & Band - Anyone who listens to Kerry Kearney play will agree he's one of the best slide guitarists you'll ever hear!
• August 31 Tommy Keys & Band - Finalist at the 22nd International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN, has a winning combination - Barrelhouse Boogie & Blues Piano with moody, Soulful Vocals.

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Sunday, May 25 on WPKN

2:00 a.m Tom Poplawski, Radio Free Arcadia 5:00 a.m. Serge & Maria Cecilia Petit-Homme, Advance Radio 7:00 a.m. Black Introspectives 10:00 a.m. Alex Hunt (fill-in for David Golden, Morning Maniac Music) 2:00 p.m. La Esquina Latina 6:00 p.m. Bill Nolan, Antique Blues 10:00 p.m. Paul Simpson, Chester's Blanket Fort Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Power Restored, Broadcast Resumes

Saturday, May 24, 2008 @ 9:30 PM — Power has been restored to our transmitter site, WPKN & WPKM are once again on the air. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Power Outage Causes Temporary Interruption of WPKN's Broadcast

Saturday, May 24 @ 8:00 PM – due to a power outage at our transmitter site, WPKN & WPKM are temporarily off the air. We are hoping that the interruption will be brief as the electric utility undertakes repairs. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Saturday, May 24 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Rich Kaminsky, Off-Beat 6:00 a.m. World of Radio 6:30 a.m. Rob Reeves, It's A Hit 10:00 a.m. Bob Costanzo, Car Bob 2:00 p.m. Between The Lines 2:30 p.m. Ken Best, Good Music 6:00 p.m. Colette Rossignol, Capital Radio 10:00 p.m. Mikki, Mikki's Room Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Friday, May 23 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. John Corvino, Johnny Be Good 6:00 a.m. Doug Echols (fill-in for Glenn Hochstetter) 10:00 a.m. Pam Smith, Amazon Radio 1:00 p.m. Radio Nation 2:00 p.m. Mike Horyczun

6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Kathy DeMino 7:40 p.m. Ray Terlaga 10:00 p.m. Bob Chameko Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Thursday, May 22 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Doug Echols 6:00 a.m. Cliff Furnald, Working Title 10:00 a.m. Binnie Klein 12:00 noon Tidings From Hazel Kahan 12:30 Melinda Tuhus, The Forest And The Trees 1:00 p.m. Counterspin 1:30 p.m. Latino USA 2:00 p.m. Bob Balogh 5:30 p.m. WINGS - Women's International News Gathering Service 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Bob Shapiro, In the Evening 10:00 p.m. Ed Flynn's Rock 'n' Roll Hootenany Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Let's Dansk!

9:00 a.m. - Cliff Furnald, Working Title This week continues our special series of Danish roots music, recorded live in various places round the world in the last 2 years. This Thursday's program will feature a concert by Afenginn, an unorthodox ensemble that performs high-energy, humorous and virtuoso 'bastard-ethno' music: original, folk-based compositions containing odd meters, witty wildness and energy, but also moments of meditation and melancholy. There are hints of klezmer and other eastern European sounds among their Danish roots, but the final mix is all their own. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Binnie Klein interviews Susan Jacoby

10:30 a.m. - Binnie Klein Binnie Klein interviews Susan Jacoby, whose recent book The Age of American Unreason has been called a "brilliant, sad story of the anti-intellectualism and lack of reasonable thought that has put this country in one of the sorriest states in history." She's got a great concept called "junk thought." Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Tidings from Hazel Kahan

12:00 noon - Tidings from Hazel Kahan: Moving Sets You In Motion Artist, psychologist and activist Hazel Kahan offers a reprise of her program about moving. She recounts her move from New York to the North Fork and interviews some frequent movers. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Wednesday, May 21 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Terry Hopper, The Quest 6:00 a.m. Ebong Udoma 8:00 a.m. Between The Lines 8:30 a.m. Ebong Udoma 10:00 a.m. Richard Epstein, Sometimes Classical 2:00 p.m. Phil Bowler, Jazz Adventures 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Chris Teskey 10:00 p.m. Lyda Dixon

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20th Annual Kinks Special

6:00 p.m. - Jeff Day and Ben Berry This year's annual Kinks Special is our 20th anniversary! At least one special surprise is in store. Tune in to find out what it is on this four hour "adoration of all things Ray and Dave". Technorati tags: The Kinks

Tuesday, May 20 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Jeep Ward, Six Feet Deep 6:00 a.m. Dave O and I-Tone, Irie Feelings 10:00 a.m. Pete Stewart 2:00 p.m. Jeff Wignall and/or Ken Brown 5:30 p.m. Between The Lines 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Rod Richardson, Radio Nothing (fill-in for Valerie Richardson, Radio Something) 10:00 p.m.Rod Richardson, Radio Nothing (continues as fill-in for Ruben Abreu) Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

This afternoon on Between the Lines

5:30 pm - Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine A review of the week's under-reported news stories and this week's interview segments:

• "Group Demands Answers on Bush Surveillance of Guantanamo Attorneys." Interview with Emi MacClean, staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris.
• "Congress Calls on Pentagon and FCC to investigate Pro-war Propaganda Operation." Interview with Timothy Karr, campaign director with Free Press, conducted by Scott Harris.
• "Latinos for Universal Health Care Gather for first Regional Conference." Interview with Jaime Torres, co-founder of Latinos for National Health Insurance, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Free program summaries, interview transcripts, more info: http://www.btlonline.org/ Technorati tags: Guantanamo, universal health care

Monday, May 19 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Steve di Costanzo, Radio Base Camp 6:00 a.m. John Lugo, Barricada 10:00 a.m. Victor Pachera, Jazz Classics 2:00 p.m. Mal Dankner 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Patrick O'Sullivan, Jazz Variations 7:30 p.m. This Way Out 8:00 p.m. Scott Harris, Counterpoint 10:00 p.m. J.F., Nazmo Radio Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris

• Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, discusses Congressional debate over Iraq War funding bills and the presidential election campaign. 
• Syndicated columnist David Sirota, talks about his new book, "The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington." 
• Wayne Beson, founding executive director of the group, Truth Wins Out, who assesses the recent California Supreme Court decision overturning a ban on same-sex marriage. 
• Jacques Leslie, journalist and author of "Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment," examines the danger of damaged dams in the recent Chinese earthquake and the larger public policy debate over the construction of dams and resulting degradation of the environment..

An archive of Counterpoint programs are accessible for free at http://www.whiterosesociety.org/. Technorati tags: same-sex marriage, China, anti-war

Sunday, May 18 on WPKN

2:00 a.m Liz Becker 5:00 a.m. Serge & Maria Cecilia Petit-Homme, Advance Radio 7:00 a.m. Integrative Wellness 10:00 a.m. David Golden, Morning Maniac Music 2:00 p.m. La Esquina Latina 6:00 p.m. Bill Nolan, Antique Blues 10:00 p.m. Dave "Casey Jones" Schwartz 12:00 a.m. K.C. Vaz, Radio Paralelo Zero Brazil Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Live Music on Bill Nolan's Antique Blues

7:00 PM Bill Nolan, Antique Blues Sara LeMieux plays live blues in WPKN's Live from Where? studio on Sunday, May 18th. With Acoustic delta blues, roots music and jazz! The show is FREE and open to the public. Performance starts at 7:00 PM. Call WPKN for more information or reservations about this program. More about Sara LeMieux: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hHQRkS1wgbc

Upcoming shows:

• May 25th Johnny Feds & The Bluez Boyz Kick ass Blues band from Westchester. Wicked high energy kick-ass blues! Once Da Boyz get cookin' they'll boogie your woogie 'till you can't find your way home!
• June 8th Misbhavin Danny Kean is so hot you can't touch him with asbestos gloves And Pat Hunter, ooo wee there is nothing or nobody around like her she's got a thing all her own she ain't imating nobody, Damn she know them blues!"
•  June 22nd Patty Tuite & Band - Patty Tuite is a seasoned singer/songwriter/musician from Connecticut with a varied background based primarily in swinging blues, classic R&B and jazz. 
• June 29th Mark Nomad - Singer and guitarist from western Massachusetts, performing solo or with a band, redefines the Skip James, Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker.
• July 13th Rocky Lawrence - Rocky Lawrence had already made a reputation for himself as a brilliant electric blues guitarist on the East Coast and in the Midwest. A student of Muddy Waters, Hubert Sumlin and Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, Lawrence was no stranger to the blues scene. 
• July 20th Kerry Kearney & Band - Anyone who listens to Kerry Kearney play will agree he's one of the best slide guitarists you'll ever hear!
• August 31 Tommy Keys & Band - Finalist at the 22nd International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN, has a winning combination - Barrelhouse Boogie & Blues Piano with moody, Soulful Vocals.

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On the next Casey Jones Sunday Night Extravaganza of Program and Cavalcade of American Music

10:00 p.m. - David "Casey Jones" Schwartz

• 10:00 - Backstage Buzz, WPKNs window of the theater arts. Program Hosts Leo Meyer and Dolly Curtis interview Fran and Gary Scarpa the operators of the Center Stage Theater in Shelton. 
• 11:00 - Madam Veronica Tells the Future.  Once again Veronica takes to the airwaves and explains it all. Using her intuitive psychic ability Madam Veronica will be taking phone calls. Keep in mind that Veronica is a psychic & not a therapist

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Saturday, May 17 on WPKN

2:00 a.m Rich Kaminsky, Off-Beat 6:00 a.m. World of Radio 6:30 a.m. Dave Zinovenko, The Carousel 10:00 a.m. Annette Szczesiul 2:00 p.m. Between The Lines 2:30 p.m. Deb Guhl 6:00 p.m. Jeff Day & Ben Berry, 20th Annual Kinks Special 10:00 p.m. Mikki, Mikki's Room Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Friday, May 16 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. John Corvino, Johnny Be Good 6:00 a.m. Janine Bujalski 10:00 a.m. Pam Smith, Amazon Radio 1:00 p.m. Radio Nation 2:00 p.m. John Motavalli 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Kathy DeMino 7:40 p.m. Ray Terlaga (8:00 p.m. AIDS Update) (8:30 p.m. Skies of Bridgeport) 10:00 p.m. Friday Night Fish Fry Technorati tags: WPKN, radio Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Off the air briefly

1:00 p.m. We'll be off the air for an hour today, beginning at 1:00 PM. Dom Bordonaro, our Chief Engineer, will be replacing the Big Tube.

No foam finger for us, but...

we're still #2 in two categories: Best Local Radio Station Best Indie/Alternative Radio Station Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Thursday, May 15 on WPKN

6:00 a.m. Cliff Furnald, Working Title

10:00 a.m. Binnie Klein 12:00 noon East End Ink 12:30 p.m. Progressive Radio 1:00 p.m. Counterspin 1:30 p.m. Latino USA 2:00 p.m. TBD 5:30 p.m. WINGS – Women's International News Gathering Service 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Bob Shapiro, In the Evening 10:00 p.m. Eric Ford Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

(Almost) LIve from Denmark

9:00 a.m. - Cliff Furnald, Working Title This week I begin a special series of Danish roots music, recorded live in various places in the last 2 years. This Thursday's program will feature a concert by Trio Mio, an ensemble that explores the tradition in vibran new ways. The trio is Kristine Heebøll Violin, backing vocals, Nikolaj Busk Piano, accordion, harmonium, melodica, pump organ and backing vocals, and and Jens Ulvsand, flat back bouzouki, guitar, vocals. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

East End Ink

12:00 Noon - East End Ink East End Ink, WPKN's monthly literary review will present a reading from We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon. The book features the poems of 60 poets writing in response to the invasions of Lebanon in 1982 and 2006 and to the war in Iraq. The reading features poets Margaret Gibson, visiting professor at the University of Connecticut, Long Island poets Naomi Lazard, Kathryn Levy and Kathy Engel and the Reverend Osagyefo Sekou of Judson Memorial Church in New York. The book was edited by Kathy Engel and Kamal Boullata. The program was recorded in Sag Harbor at Canio's Books. Technorati tags: literature, radio

Wednesday, May 14 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Terry Hopper, The Quest 6:00 a.m. Ebong Udoma 8:00 a.m. Between The Lines 8:30 a.m. Ebong Udoma 10:00 a.m. Richard Epstein, Sometimes Classical 2:00 p.m. Phil Bowler, Jazz Adventures 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Chris Teskey 10:00 p.m. Lyda Dixon

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Tuesday, May 13 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Jeep Ward, Six Feet Deep 6:00 a.m. Dave O and I-Tone, Irie Feelings 10:00 a.m. Pete Stewart 2:00 p.m. Jeff Wignall 5:30 p.m. Between The Lines 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Jim Motavalli 10:00 p.m. New Music New Haven 11:00 p.m. TBD Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Crossing the Bridge to the Future

2:00 p.m. -  Jeff Wignall On Tuesday May 13th at 4 pm I will be doing a phone interview with astrologer and author Mark Borax. Mark new book 2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future is an interesting and soulful personal narrative based on the his apprenticeship with master astrologer William Lonsdale. Mark (who has been a guest on my show before) and I are childhood friends and this is his first major book, so it will be great fun to have him on as a guest again. Mark is also a bit of a psychic and almost 15 years ago he accurately predicted a major California earthquake on my show--almost to the hour. We'll open the phone for calls, too, so have your astrology questions ready! Technorati tags: astrology, radio

This afternoon on Between the Lines

5:30 pm - Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine A review of the week's under-reported news stories and this week's interview segments:

• "Middle Class at Risk If U.S. Economy not Restructured." Interview with economist Max Wolff, conducted by Scott Harris.
• "Raul Castro Acts on Citizen-Initiated Change in Cuba." Interview with Joy Gordon, professor of philsophy, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.
• "Oil Companies, Speculators are Big Winners in Energy Price Spike." Interview with Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen's Energy Program, conducted by Scott Harris. 

Free program summaries, interview transcripts, more info: http://www.btlonline.org/ Technorati tags: economy, Cuba

Monday, May 12 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Steve di Costanzo, Radio Base Camp 6:00 a.m. Samba, Zanj Radio 10:00 a.m. Victor Pachera, Jazz Classics 2:00 p.m. Nick Jacobs, Music, Sacred and Profane 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Patrick O'Sullivan, Jazz Variations 7:30 p.m. This Way Out 8:00 p.m. Scott Harris, Counterpoint 10:00 p.m. J.F., Nazmo Radio Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris

• Scott Horton, journalist and Columbia University law professor who many credit with breaking the media blackout on the Bush administration's complicity in the politically motivated prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman on corruption charges, who was recently released from prison.
• Emi MacClean, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, examines allegations by lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo who believe government agents have monitored their conversations.
• Timothy Karr, campaign director with the group Free Press, discusses public pressure for Congress to investigate the Pentagon's propaganda program that successfully embedded pro-Bush military officers as paid commentators in U.S. corporate media.
• Norwalk, CT - Nagarote, Nicaragua Sister City Project Field Director, Sarah Proescher, talks about the 22 year old group's development projects and politics inside Nicaragua.

An archive of Counterpoint programs are accessible for free at http://www.whiterosesociety.org/. Technorati tags: Nicaragua, Guantanamo, anti-war

Sunday, May 11 on WPKN

2:00 a.m Tom Poplawski, Radio Free Arcadia 5:00 a.m. Pierre Richard Merisier, Radio Vision 7:00 a.m. Black Introspectives 10:00 a.m. David Golden, Morning Maniac Music 2:00 p.m. La Esquina Latina 6:00 p.m. Bill Nolan, Antique Blues 10:00 p.m. Davis Schwartz Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Saturday, May 10 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Rich Kaminsky, Off-Beat 6:00 a.m. World of Radio 6:30 a.m. Rob Reeves, It's A Hit 10:00 a.m. Bob Johnson, Second Saturday Magazine 2:00 p.m. Between The Lines 2:30 p.m. Ken Best, Good Music 6:00 p.m. Rod Richardson, Radio Nothing (fill-in for Scott Shapleigh, Leaving The 20th Century With No Regrets) 10:00 p.m. Mikki, Mikki's Room Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Second Saturday Magazine

10 a.m. - Bob Johnson, Second Saturday Magazine 10:00 AM Donna Rosenthal discusses her 2005 book "The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land." The book was re-edited and updated for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. 10:20 AM Steve Lopez author of "The Soloist" talks about his book which is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jaimie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. Edward Humes, Special to The Times says: " ...keen observations and eye for telling detail as he unfolds the story of his unintended and improbable friendship with a homeless, schizophrenic classical musician, Nathaniel Ayers." 10:40 AM Guest Joshua Kendall is the author "The Man Who Made Lists." It is a biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of the Thesaurus. The New York Times says "Kendall gets the job done with sympathy and speed, occasionally entertaining the reader with a novelistic flourish." 11:00 AM Processed food and their ingredients is the subject of "Twinkie Deconstructed." Guest Steve Ettlinger has been an author, editor, ... has helped create over forty books. Just a dozen of those titles account for over a million copies. Six books relate directly to food. 11:20 AM Jeff Gondinier " X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking" Jeff says, "Since my book is about the rise and fall and quiet resurgence of Generation X, I suppose the right thing to do is to put together a playlist with popular "alternative" MTV chestnuts...But that seems a little too obvious, and Xers have a tendency to dodge the obvious. So let's try something a little different." 11:40 AM " Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need." Our guest is Daniel Pink whose job search graphic handbook is drawn by Rob Ten Pas in the Japanese format known as Manga. 12 Noon To 2PM Co-host Jo Williamson stops by to play her music and help interview the following guests. 12: 00 Noon Sarah O'Leary Burningham "How to Raise Your Parents." 12:20 Christine Wicker "The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: This suprising crisis inside the Church." 12:40 Susan McCarthy has a financial planning guide called "The Value of Money." 1:00 PM Guest Miriam Goodman, is the author of "Reinventing Retirement." 1:40 PM Marla Martenson Hollywood matchmaker is author of "Excuse Me Your Soul Mate is Waiting."" Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Save the date for live music!

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band

Sunday, June 1, 7:30 PM

Playhouse on the Green

177 State Street, Bridgeport

Tickets are on sale now

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason are extraordinary musicians. If you didn't know it before, you sure did after Ken Burns' The Civil War hit the airwaves. Their performance of Jay's haunting composition Ashokan Farewell — the musical hallmark of the PBS series — earned the couple international acclaim. Of course Ashokan Farewell is only part of the story.

The Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band features Jay, Molly, Jay's daughter Ruth Ungar Merenda, and her husband Michael Merenda. You may know Ruth and Mike Merenda from their band, The Mammals. Ruth Merenda cut her teeth on traditional music, and grew up to be a top-flight performer. She brings fiddle, ukulele, guitar and deeply moving vocal performances to the Family Band. Mike Merenda favored rock and ska before being drawn into the world of acoustic music. He adds old-time banjo, guitar and percussion to the mix.

Tickets are $33 (includes a $3 handling charge). Buy your tickets online or call the Playhouse Box Office: (203) 333-3666. Technorati tags: Jay Ungar, Ashokan Farewell

Friday, May 9 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. John Corvino, Johnny Be Good 9:00 a.m. Doug Echols (fill-in for Glen Hochstetter) 9:00 a.m. Carnegie Council lecture series 10:00 a.m. Pam Smith, Amazon Radio 1:00 p.m. Radio Nation 2:00 p.m. Bob Shapiro 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Kathy DeMino 7:40 p.m. Ray Terlaga (8:00 p.m. AIDS Update) (8:30 p.m. Skies of Bridgeport) 10:00 p.m. Bob Chameko Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Carnegie Council series

9:00 a.m. - Carnegie Council lecture series Quil Lawrence speaking about “Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East ”. Technorati tags: Iraq, Kurds

Thursday, May 8 on WPKN

12:00 a.m. Thomas Makucevich, Music for Dreamers 6:00 a.m. Cliff Furnald, Working Title 10:00 a.m. Binnie Klein 12:00 noon New Music New Haven 1:00 p.m. Counterspin 1:30 p.m. Latino USA 2:00 p.m. Bob Balogh 5:30 p.m. WINGS - Women's International News Gathering Service 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Bob Shapiro, In the Evening 10:00 p.m. Ed Flynn's Rock'n'Roll Hootenanny Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

The complex world of grief

10:30 a.m. - Binnie Klein Binnie Klein interviews novelist Fran Dorf about her investigation into the complex world of grief. Technorati tags: grief

Wednesday, May 7 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Terry Hopper, The Quest 6:00 a.m. Ebong Udoma 8:00 a.m. Between The Lines 8:30 a.m. Ebong Udoma 10:00 a.m. Richard Epstein, Sometimes Classical 2:00 p.m. Phil Bowler, Jazz Adventures 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Chris Teskey 10:00 p.m. Lyda Dixon

Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Tuesday, May 6 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Jeep Ward, Six Feet Deep 6:00 a.m. Dave O & I-Tone, Irie Feelings 10:00 a.m. Pete Stewart 2:00 p.m. Richard Hill, Rainy Day Radio 5:30 p.m. Between The Lines 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Valerie Richardson, Radio Something 10:00 p.m. John Corvino, Johnny Be Good (fill-in Bill Cosentino, Organic Radio) Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Valerie Richardson interviews Ann Cushman

7:00 p.m. - Valerie Richardson Bookstores are overrun with so many absurdly-titled self-help books these days, and few of us would bat an eye at seeing one titled Enlightenment for Dummies. In reality, however, the book bearing this title is a novel about a stressed-out 29-year-old travel writer who finds herself traveling to India in search of the perfect guru. Valerie Richardson speaks with yoga teacher and writer Ann Cushman about her latest novel, Enlightenment for Idiots. Technorati tags: enlightenment, radio

This afternoon on Between the Lines

5:30 pm - Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine A review of the week's under-reported news stories and this week's interview segments:

• "Pentagon War Propaganda Operation Exposed." Interview with Peter Hart, analyst with the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting,conducted by Scott Harris.
• "Agriculture Policies Linked to Nutrition, Health and Environment." Excerpt of speech by Michael Pollan, author and professor of journalism, produced by Melinda Tuhus.
• "Sean Bell Murder Verdict Another Exampleof Institutional Racism." Interview with DeLacy Davis, founder and president of Black Cops Against Police Brutality, conducted by Scott Harris.

Free program summaries, interview transcripts, more info: http://www.btlonline.org/ Technorati tags: anti-war, Sean Bell

Monday, May 5 on WPKN

2:00 a.m.  Steve di Costanzo, Radio Base Camp 6:00 a.m. John Lugo, Barricada 10:00 a.m. Victor Pachera, Jazz Classics 2:00 p.m. Mal Dankner 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Patrick O'Sullivan, Jazz Variations 7:30 p.m. This Way Out 8:00 p.m. Scott Harris, Counterpoint 10:00 p.m. J.F., Nazmo Radio Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris

• Discussion about the current state of the U.S. economy, (guest to be announced.)
• Tyson Slocum, of Public Citizen's energy program examines the reasons behind the steep climb in energy prices and record oil company profits.
• Camilo Mejia, Iraq war veteran convicted of desertion for refusing to fight, comments on the 5th anniversary of President Bush's May 1, 2003 declaration that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended," while standing under a banner reading: "Mission Accomplished."
• Frank Panzarella an organizer of of the group Fight The Hike, discusses massive electric rate increases and bills pending in the CT state legislature that would re-regulate electric utility companies and limit their profits.

An archive of Counterpoint programs are accessible for free at http://www.whiterosesociety.org/. Technorati tags: energy prices, economy, anti-war, Camilo Mejia

Sunday, May 4 on WPKN

2:00 a.m Liz Becker 5:00 a.m. Serge & Maria Cecilia Petit-Homme, Advance Radio 7:00 a.m. Integrative Wellness 10:00 a.m. John Corvino (fill-in for David Golden, Morning Maniac Music) 2:00 p.m. La Esquina Latina 6:00 p.m. Bill Nolan, Antique Blues 10:00 p.m. History Counts 10:30 p.m. - Morgan Kaolian & Dolly Curtis 11:00 p.m. Dave "Casey Jones" Schwartz 12:00 a.m. K.C. Vaz, Radio Paralelo Zero Brazil Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Saturday, May 3 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Rich Kaminsky, Off-Beat 6:00 a.m. World of Radio 6:30 a.m. Dave Zinovenko, The Carousel 10:00 a.m. Annette Szczesiul 2:00 p.m. Between The Lines 2:30 p.m. Walter Wagoner, Soundchecks 6:00 p.m. Andy Bologovsky 10:00 p.m. Mike Goldman (fill-in for Mikki's Room) Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Friday, May 2 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. John Corvino, Johnny Be Good 6:00 a.m. Janine Bujalski 10:00 a.m. Pam Smith, Amazon Radio 1:00 p.m. Radio Nation 2:00 p.m. John Motavalli 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Kathy DeMino 7:40 p.m. Ray Terlaga (8:00 p.m. AIDS Update) (8:30 p.m. Skies of Bridgeport) 10:00 p.m. Rod Richardson, Radio Nothing (fill-in Ben Berry, In A Hostile Environment) Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Thursday, May 1 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. Thomas Makucevich, Music for Dreamers 6:00 a.m. Cliff Furnald, Working Title 10:00 a.m. Binnie Klein 12:30 p.m. History Counts 1:00 p.m. Counterspin 1:30 p.m. Latino USA 2;00 p.m. Walter Wagoner, Soundchecks 5:30 p.m. WINGS - Women's International News Gathering Service 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Bob Shapiro, In the Evening 10:00 p.m. Ed Flynn's Hellraising Hootenany Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

May Day New Haven

4:00 p.m. - Walter Wagoner A radio documentary of the events beginning on May Day, 1970, when twelve thousand Black Panthers and their supporters arrived in New Haven individually and in organized groups. They were housed and fed by community organizations and Yale students in dormitories, and met en masse on the New Haven Green across the street from the Courthouse to hear protest speakers including Jean Genet, Benjamin Spock, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden. Bombers exploded two devices in the Yale hockey rink, and protestors confronted National Guardsmen who responded by tear gassing the demonstrators. Produced in 1970 by Walter Wagoner and the staff of WYBC-FM news. Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Inquisitions (and Other Un-American Activities)

2:00 p.m. - Walter Wagoner A New Radio Drama for May Day 2008: Inquisitions (and Other Un-American Activities) 

The interrogation of activist Lucy Parsons during the 1919 Palmer raids is the framework of a dynamic new audio production that explores the movement for an eight-hour workday, the Haymarket bombing, and hanging of four activists. It was recorded in May, 2003 at City Hall in Burlington, Vermont, on the 117th anniversary of the infamous 1886 bombing. "Inquisitions" is Written by Greg Guma, Directed by Bill Boardman, and Co-produced by Toward Freedom and Catalyst Theatre Company. More info at: www.squeakywheel.net/inquisitions.html Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

History Counts

12:30 p.m. - History Counts

"The Creature from Jekyll Island" In 1910, seven of the world's most powerful financiers meet secretly at a private resort to create the Federal Reserve System, the United States' central bank. Who were these men? Why did they do it? Who has profited? How does their creation affect your pocketbook? Join us as we speak with G. Edward Griffin, author of the classic expose, The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve. 

This program will be repeated on Sunday, May 4 at 10 PM. Interviewer: Ken MacDermotRoe Producer: Dave Schwartz Technorati tags: WPKN, radio

Binnie Klein interviews Andrea Ray

10:30 a.m. - Binnie Klein Binnie interviews NYC-based artist Andrea Ray, about her three-part multi-media installation at Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts, inspired by the 40th anniversary of the May 2, 1968 student uprisings in Paris. The piece, called Desire, reflects "a repetitive search for things seemingly unattainable--a complete understanding of war, an experience of productive social change through protest, and an association with an effective community. As its title might suggest, Ray's work ruminates on desire, on the state of wanting and lack." Technorati tags: WPKN, radio