February 22nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM
Cast your vote for your favorite movie, actor, actress and original song in the WSLR Academy Awards 2010 Movie Survey.
WSLR film reporter Ann Stillman will announce the results on an upcoming episode of the Friday edition of The Jumping Mullet Report.
February 19th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM
WSLR 96.5 low-power FM, Sarasota’s non-profit community radio station, will be among the many public radio stations nationwide participating in the 13th Annual Homelessness Marathon. Featuring 15 hours of consecutive programming about homelessness and the homeless, the 2010 Homeless Marathon national broadcast will originate from Detroit, Michigan beginning Tuesday, February 23rd at 7 p.m. and continuing until 9 a.m. Wednesday, February 24.
Preempting the national broadcast, WSLR 96.5 FM will feature at leeast five hours of local programming addressing homelessness in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. Produced by WSLR and airing from 6 to 9 p.m. (or later) Tuesday Feb. 23, and resuming from 7 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, the WSLR local programming will include interviews with Sarasota’s homeless residents; interviews with representatives from local agencies that assist the area’s homeless; interviews with representatives of the downtown business community; interviews with representatives of the City of Sarasota and musical interludes reflecting the plight of the homeless.
On Wednesday Feb. 24, from 7 to 9 a.m., WSLR will be broadcasting live from the Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness office located at 1445 2nd Street in Sarasota.
Those living outside the WSLR broadcast range can listen online at http://wslr.org/listen-live/
At the national level, the Homelessness Marathon will address the problem of homelessness by speaking directly with homeless people, who will give their first-hand testimony on how they became homeless and the obstacles they face before they can be housed again. The national broadcast will also feature speakers as Ron Gettlefinger, president of the United Auto Workers, and two of America’s most outstanding anti-poverty advocates, Cheri Honkala, director of the Poor Peoples’ Economic Human Rights Campaign and Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project.
More information about the Homelessness Marathon, including schedules and sound clips from previous broadcasts, can be found at: http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org.
February 18th, 2010 / No Comments » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM
Aerial Boundaries host Rich Lapenna welcomes teacher, picker, singer, songwriter and radio personality Ishmael Katz to the WSLR studio for a live interview and live studio performance.
Visit Ishmael online at: http://www.ishmaelkatz.com/
February 18th, 2010 / No Comments » / by WSLR 96.5 LPFM
This week The Surreal News welcomes Dr. Cynthia Wilson and Kay Jackson. Dr. Wilson will discuss her experiences treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in military personnel.
Kay Jackson will discuss The Horizon Seminar pertaining to the Brain, Genetics, and Physics on Feb. 27 at Manatee UUF in Bradenton.
This show will also feature a discussion on the routine use of antibiotics in industrial farming contributes to an increase in dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can spread to humans. As a result of this practice, the antibiotics we depend on to keep us healthy are at risk of becoming less effective.
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.
The Surreal News is streamed live at WSLR.org and is one of many WSLR programs available 24/7 via podcast at www.thesurrealnews.com, which can be accessed from the WSLR podcast links found elsewhere on the WSLR home page.
WSLR is an innovative, listener-supported, non-profit, non-commercial FM radio station dedicated to serving the Sarasota community. WSLR features locally produced programming and presents cultural, artistic, and political perspectives currently underrepresented in the media. Our goal is to inform and empower listeners to play an active role in WSLR and in their community. WSLR’s programming promotes equality, peace, sustainability, democracy, and social and economic justice.
