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This Saturday, April 28th, I, Mark Binder, will be sitting in for Bill Ewell on his “Bop And Beyond” show, 3-5pm, on Sarasota’s WSLR 96.5 LPFM Sarasota. Bill had forgotten he had a family commitment and asked me if i could slip into his seat for his stint on WSLR’s Prpring ‘18 Membership Drive. I […]

It is spring fundraising time and The Surreal News is honoring its listeners and contributors with two of the show’s favorite guests covering issues ripped from today’s headlines.  Stephen Spaulding (above)  from Common Cause will be joining Steve and Lew to give us the inside scoop on the Stormy Daniels affair (pun intended) and the […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut April 23, 1983 Audience recording: Nakamichi shotgun x2 (CM-300?) > Cassette Master Recorded behind the board by Bob Morris — thanks to Sam for help. Transferred, edited, patched by Bob Morris Disc 1 – Set 1: 1. tuning 2. […]

This Wednesday Pat Mahoney, NAMI President and Coleen Thayer, NAMI Executive Director will be in the studio to tell  us about the work of NAMI – the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Sarasota. Since 1984 NAMI has been working in Sarasota County to improve the lives of individuals with mental illness, as well as the […]

Joining Steve and Lew this week will be Democratic candidate for US Rep. Jan Schneider (above) who will first meet David Shapiro in the Democratic primary for the chance to challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan. This will be the sixth time the Sarasota attorney has run for that seat on a platform including but […]

Our first guest Wednesday will be Tracey Collins, Assistant Professor of Economics at New College. Professor Collins’s research focus is primarily in the field of Economic Growth and Development. She has researched the role that technology diffusion plays in a country’s pattern of growth and the effect that trade liberalization has on technology diffusion. She […]

Last month the Florida Legislature passed a sweeping K-12 Education Bill that could be more accurately labeled “Another Shot at Public Education Bill.” Besides barely raising funding for Public Schools (about 47 cents per student), the bill also included a provision clearly aimed at busting the teacher’s union and a way to funnel yet more […]

This Wednesday 4/11 we’ll have in the studio Ringling College of Art and Design professor Susan Doll who will review several of the films to be shown at the Sarasota Film Festival which starts this Friday. See Sarasotafilmfestival.com. Also in the studio will be SFF Program Operations Director Greg Bortnichak Susan joined Ringling College in […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA 4/9/83 SBD > Master Cassette > Reel > Dat (48k) Transferred, Edited and Patched By Charlie Miller Sounds fluctuates slightly between too-soft instruments, too-loud vocals, and/or both…otherwise, a fine evening! Disc 1 – Set 1: 1. Bertha > 2. The Promised […]

Former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder (above) is joining Steve and Lew this week to talk about the addition of a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.  She will explain what does that question mean to the accuracy of the count and why does it matter that the count is as true as possible. During her […]