Host Allen Ruff interviews Thomas Bass, Professor of English and Journalism at the State University of New York, in a caller-filled hour of A Public Affair. Bass discusses his recent article in the Mekong Review, “America’s Amnesia,” which raises several objections to the Burns & Novick PBS documentary on the Vietnam War.
Willy St Sunday WORT Stage: (Under)Ground Zero for New Music
WORT is delighted to bring six groundbreaking bands to the 40th annual Willy Street Fair, including the celebrated Nobunny (pictured)!! WORT’s Underground Stage will be a not-to-miss scene from noon until around 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 17, 2017. Here’s the lineup and description of bands and WORT DJs performing: Seasaw – 12 noon – Eve Wilczewski […]
99ers “Bang It Out” at Iconic Willy St Music Festival
The 99ers plug it in and turn it up at 4:40 pm this Sunday on WORT’s Underground Stage. The 99ers are here to show off their philosophy: “BANG IT OUT, KEEP IT SHORT & NO MESSING ABOUT!!” For insight into their debut appearance in Madison, tune in to I Like It Like That on WORT with […]
Disq Spins Their Tunes at Willy Street Fair
The very talented up-and-coming band called Disq turns up their tunes at 1:10 pm on the 2017 WORT Underground Stage at the Willy Street Fair this Sunday, September 17. Isthmus describes Disq as “a dreamy power-pop act that sounds like a more psychedelic version of Pinkerton-era Weezer.” Disq founders Isaac deBroux-Slone and Raina Bock have been gigging […]
Seasaw Kicks Off WORT’s Stage at Willy St. Fair
The pop/indie-rock duo Seasaw will take the WORT Underground Stage at noon to kick things off on Sunday, September 17. Seasaw is Eve Wilczewski and Meg Golz. The two musicians met for the first time in 2010 and collaborated long-distance until the summer of 2015, when Eve joined Meg in Madison. They’ve been touring […]
Rob McClure’s Weather Forecast
Some of Rob McClure’s favorite weather and climate resources: Hourly Forecast Graph or Hourly Numerical Data. These will provide a much higher-resolution view of the predicted weather to come than most NWS forecast products; they give the forecaster’s best prediction for future hour-by-hour readings of temperature, sky cover, wind speed and direction, precipitation potential, and […]