Talk At Ten Past Interviews

LISTEN NOW: Pete Szilagyi

Fort Davis resident Pete Szilagyi joins KRTS for a discussion on driving in West Texas. Szilagyi has 30 years experience writing about cars for the Austin American Statesman, among other publications.

LISTEN NOW: Amy Ellis

Amy Ellis, the founder of the local Brewster County FreeCycle group joins us to celebrate the list serve’s 7^th anniversary. Amy will be sharing stories from FreeCycle members, and letting folks know how they can get involved.

According to the Freecycle Network, Freecycle is made up of 5,019 groups with 8,906,448 members around the world. Its mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.

LISTEN NOW: Gary Gorence

On this second installment of Wednesday’s Talk at Ten, we hear some tunes from Gary Gorence. The Sante Fe, New Mexico area based musician brings his bluesy rock-n-roll to West Texas this weekend. Gorence plays La Kiva in Terlingua on Friday, February 10, and Cigar Frogs in Midland on Saturday, February 11. More of Gorence’s music can be heard on his website.

LISTEN NOW: Emily Bovino

Emily Bovino of Field Work Marfa hosts an hour of programming on KRTS Marfa.

Emily Verla Bovino is a resident of the Fieldwork: Marfa initiative, an international researcher-in-residence program for emerging artists, critics and/or researchers located in Marfa.

Bovino hosts a two-part program featuring the work of radio philosopher Gregory Whitehead and poet David Antin. Today’s program features “line, music, counterpoint, disjunction and the measure of mind”, a talk by Antin given at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project in 1984.

LISTEN NOW: Adam Lashinsky

Adam Lashinsky is a San Francisco-based editor-at-large for FORTUNE, covering Wall Street and Silicon Valley He recently released the book “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works.” He’ll join us on Talk at Ten today to discuss the book and the secrets of Apple’s success.

LISTEN NOW: Judith E. Stein

Judith E. Stein, current Lannan Foundation writer in residence, is a writer and independent curator. Her biography-in-progress of the art dealer Richard Hu Bellamy earned a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. Among her honors is a Pew Foundation Fellowship in the Arts; an Award for Best Catalogue, International Art Critics Association, for the book I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin; and a writing residency at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy. For the last 30 years, her features and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times Book Review, and Ms. She is a former arts reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition. A graduate of Barnard College, she earned a doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

LISTEN NOW: Hein Hundall & Carl Cotner

KRTS mathematicians Hein Hundall & Carl Cotner, on artificial intelligence.

LISTEN NOW: Joselyn Fenstermacher

For the last four years, Joselyn Fenstermacher, of Alpine, has worked for the United States Antarctic Program. On this program Fenstermacher talks about living and working in Antarctica. She’ll be spending the next 9 months growing food for the residents of the South Pole station.

LISTEN NOW: Mark Flippo

Big Bend National Park birding tour guide Mark Flippo discusses Big Bend area birds in winter.

For seventeen years in Big Bend, Mark served as a supervisory park ranger – naturalist, providing educational and interpretive programs with an emphasis on birds, their life histories, and their conservation. His audiences included general park visitors, school groups from elementary to university level, elder hostels, and professional and amateur ornithologists. Additionally, he contributed quarterly reports to American Birds, a publication of the American Birding Association, summarizing rare bird reports and current environmental conditions that impacted avian populations, performed annual breeding bird surveys within the park, coordinated annual National Audubon Christmas Counts, participated in Colima warbler surveys, and served as liaison to the Texas Bird Records Committee with the goal of providing clear and concise documentation of rare bird species for the NPS and the state of Texas.

LISTEN NOW: Cyndee Barnes

On Talk at Ten, Cyndee Barnes, Chair of the Friends of the Jeff Davis County Library,  joins us with an update on the Library Terrace Project for Jeff Davis County.