Women Matters

February 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM

Women Matters, 6-7 PM on Tuesdays

Baby Basics

Jane Blanchard interviews Sandra Slaminko. Sandra will talk about Baby Basics, Inc., a non-profit, 100% volunteer organization that provides and distributes diapers to babies of the working/near poor in Sarasota.

Our musician this week, Diana Vytell, has delighted audiences on two continents. She performs cabaret, opera, Broadway, and jazz. Vytell started her musical journey Hartt College of Music where she studied opera, while continuing to explore musical theatre, as well as straight acting. Her performing life has been diverse, ranging from singing the mother in New York Opera at the Academy’s Tales of Hoffman, acting in The Vagina Monologues, with the Venice Little Theater, in Sarasota Florida, and playing Kate in The Taming of the Shrew with the Southern Connecticut Summer Theatre.
Diana speaks four languages and is psychotherapist with an emphasis on integrative mind body techniques. After opening a psychotherapy practice, she was drawn to cabaret. She study with Helen Baldassare’s Cabaret Performance Group. and with Marianne Challis, New York vocal coach and performer

Podcast: “Local Matters” with Florida author David T. Warner

February 4th, 2010 / No Comments » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM

David T Collage

This episode of Local Matters is now available 24/7 via podcast at  www.localmatters.podomatic.com

On Thursday, Feb. 4, Local Matters welcomed David T. Warner, the author of “Vanishing Florida: A Personal Guide to Sights Rarely Seen” to the WSLR studio, where he spent an hour reminiscing about the fascinating characters and off-the-beaten-path locales he’s encountered during his time in Sarasota and his extensive travels throughout Florida.

David shared his memories of the Liar’s Lunch gatherings that took place in Sarasota and included writers such as John D. MacDonald, Joe Hayes, Thornton Wilder, Art Buchwald and Stephen King and he talked about his time as the owner of the South Trail Cinema and the media attention that resulted from Pee Wee Herman’s infamous arrest at this establishment. David also shared his memories of his mentor and best friend Borden Deal and had much more to say about his time as writer and traveler in and around the Sunshine State.

On Saturday Feb. 6, Local Matters host Joe Hendricks will play two hours of jam band, rock and Americana music from 5 to 7 p.m. The playlist will include Wilco, The Jayhawks, Phish, DMB, Widespread Panic, The Rolling Stones, Nora Jones, Patty Griffin and more.
The show will also include a set of music featuring Zoe Lewis, Evan Greer, Anne Feeney and Samantha Crain- musical artists that are headed to Sarasota in February and March.

Podcast: “THE SURREAL NEWS” Remembers Howard Zinn

February 4th, 2010 / No Comments » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM

Howard Zinn

Listen to this show and past episodes of The Surreal News at www.thesurrealnews.com

Raymond Lotta, author of “A Life Well Lived: Remembering Howard Zinn, People’s Historian,” joined Surreal News hosts Steve and Larry on Friday, Feb. 5 for a remembrance of Howard Zinn – the legendary historian, radical activist, thinker and teacher who died at the age of 87 on January 27.

Zinn wrote more than 20 books and plays, with his most famous and influential work being “A People’s History of the United States,” a book that opened the eyes of countless readers to the realities of America’s founding in genocide and slavery and America’s arc of brutal expansion. Howard Zinn stood for a truth-seeking craft of history that challenged the official and self-serving narrative of America-and that challenged people to learn from history, to act on history, to become a force in the struggle for a better world.
Raymond Lotta is a revolutionary intellectual who has written and lectured extensively on the experiences of the communist revolutions in the Soviet Union and China. He has done major work on political economy, including “America in Decline” and ongoing analyses of global economic developments in the “Revolution” newspaper.

Each episode of The Surreal News features “A Tannen Weekly” by humorist Pete Tannen, a Media Matters Minute and plenty of under-reported news items.

Women Matters

January 31st, 2010 / No Comments » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM

Women Matters, 6-7 PM on Tuesdays

IMPACT

What Every Women Needs to Know to Go from Invisible to Invincible

Jane Blanchard interviews Nancy Solomon. Nancy Solomon is a writer, speaker, facilitator and executive coach. She has built her career around one simple question: “What did you come here to do, and are you getting it done?” With a Masters in Psychology and eighteen years coaching experience, Nancy travels the country evangelically spreading the word that “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” She has inspired thousands to remove the obstacles to personal and professional success and to engage in their work and in their lives.