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  • Host: Doug Fabrizio
  • KUER news host and producer Doug Fabrizio brings you inside the latest news and issues from Utah and around the western region with newsmaker interviews, and in-depth reports, along with your calls.
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  • Genres: Talk
  • Location: Salt Lake City, UT
  • Language: English
  • Networks: NPR
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1/7/09: The Price of Everything

Tue, Jan 6 Listen
Russell Roberts is an economist at George Mason University and a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. That may seem an unlikely resume for a fiction writer, but he's also recently finished his third novel. It's called The Price of Everything and in it he explores the economic forces that drive prosperity. Roberts says that that our economy is able to achieve incredible things - without anyone being in charge.

1/6/09: Governor Jon Huntsman

Mon, Jan 5 Listen
Monday, Republican Jon Huntsman Jr was sworn in for his second term as Utah's Governor. He won with some 77% of the vote and last month the Washington Post called him the "Next Big Thing" in politics. Tuesday, we're talking to Governor Huntsman and others about his administration and about what to expect in his next four years.

1/5/09: The Fairness Doctrine

Fri, Jan 2 Listen
In 1949, the FCC established The Fairness Doctrine - an attempt to ensure that radio and television stations provided balanced views of controversial issues. It was dissolved in the 1980s as part of Reagan-era deregulation. Recently it's been the focus of right-wing pundits, who fear that the new administration will herald its comeback and the end of conservative talk shows. Monday, we're talking about the Fairness Doctrine and what the FCC under Obama will mean for America's media landscape.

1/1/09: The Unquiet Grave

Wed, Dec 31 Listen
In 1976, a body was found on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and buried in a pauper's grave. She was later identified as Anna Mae Aquash, a luminary in the American Indian Movement. A second autopsy revealed she had died from a gun-shot wound rather than "exposure" as reported by the FBI. In "The Unquiet Grave," author Steve Hendricks starts with Aquash's death and follows the complicated struggle between the FBI and the Indians in the 70s. (Rebroadcast)

1/2/09: The Utah War

Wed, Dec 31 Listen
In the spring of 1857, President James Buchanan appointed a non-Mormon governor for the Utah Territory. Worried about a reaction the president sent a quarter of the US Army to make it clear just who was in charge. In the wake of years of religious persecution Latter-day Saints were feeling a bit cagey. The Utah War ended 200 years ago - and Friday on the program we're rebroadcasting our conversastion about it. (Rebroadcast)

12/29/08: Blood and Thunder

Mon, Dec 29 Listen
Monday we begin a week of Western history with the writer Hampton Sides. His book Blood and Thunder is about the epic conquest of the American West. It's a story with heroes and villains and at the center of it all is Kit Carson, the legendary trapper, scout and soldier. Doug talked to Sides about the conflict between Manifest Destiny and the actual lives of the people in the West. (Rebroadcast)

12/30/08: The Donner Party at Alder Creek

Mon, Dec 29 Listen
Since the tragedy of the Donner Party some 160 years ago, the details of the California bound pioneers' desperate situation has fascinated the public. Contemporary accounts of death and cannibalism were clearly exaggerated for the purpose of selling newspapers. New archaeological evidence from a hearth at the Alder Creek camp, however, is shedding light on the story of how the group lived during four months of brutal cold, wretched storms and starvation. (Rebroadcast)

12/31/08: Mark Twain and the American West

Mon, Dec 29 Listen
Wednesday on RadioWest a conversation with the writer Ron Powers. In his acclaimed biography of Mark Twain, Powers says that critics and biographers have rearranged and reconstructed the human character of Twain, so that his real voice and his real humor have gone missing. Powers talks about the Samuel Clemens he discovered and the contribution he made to the mythology of the American West. (Rebroadcast)

12/24/08: The First Christmas

Tue, Dec 23 Listen
Wednesday on RadioWest, a conversation with the Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan about the first Christmas. He believes that over time the nativity story that appears in the Bible has been misread or overly sentimentalized. Crossan looks at the story in the context of history and explores not just what happened, but what the stories actually mean. (Rebroadcast)

12/25/08: A Child's Christmas in Wales

Tue, Dec 23 Listen
This Christmas on RadioWest, we're giving you the gift of poetry. It's a reading by the poet Dylan Thomas of his classic work A Child's Christmas in Wales. There was an intensity to Thomas' lyricism that comes through in his nostalgic piece, and as the late Leslie Norris explained in 2001 - it contains the whole of Christmas somehow. We talked to Norris and to Utah's poet laureate Katharine Coles about the life and work of Dylan Thomas. (Rebroadcast)

12/26/08: Dancing in the Streets

Tue, Dec 23 Listen
The topic for today's RadioWest is joy. The acclaimed writer Barbara Ehrenreich will be our guest to talk about a particular kind of joy - communal joy. The kind that's been expressed throughout the ages when large groups of people have gathered to feast and to dance. Ehrenreich found that dancing has been a critical part of the way humans evolved and thrived, but over time for various reasons we've resisted this part of our nature. But why? Her book is called Dancing in the Streets....

12/23/08: How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Mon, Dec 22 Listen
"Cuddly as a Cactus" and "Charming as an Eel" hardly seem like descriptions of a beloved Christmas character, but fans of Dr. Seuss will immediately recognize the mean Mr. Grinch. From the 1957 children's book and the 1966 television adaptation, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is for many an integral part of the holiday season. Tuesday, we're talking about Dr. Seuss's tale and offering you a new reading by the actor Tobin Atkinson.

12/19/08: Parallel Play

Fri, Dec 19 Listen
Friday on RadioWest we're rebroadcasting our conversation about Asperger's syndrome. It's a kind of mild from of autism which is just now coming to be understood. Our guest is Tim Page, the Pulitzer Prize winning music critic for the Washington Post. It wasn't until the year 2000 that Page was told he had Asperger's. He said the diagnosis came as a relief. He was able to explain his life spent, he says, living along-side, but distinctly apart from the rest of humanity. (Rebroadcast)

12/15/08: Top CDs of 2008

Wed, Dec 17 Listen
Monday, Bob Boilen - host of National Public Radio's All Songs Considered - joins us for a look at the top CDs of 2008. NPR listeners have been voting on their favorites, and Boilen says that a few debut artists have been doing very well despite some great music from the tried and true bands. We'll see who made the final cut and ask the opinion of some of Salt Lake's own critics. We hope you'll join us with your picks too.

12/16: The Nutcracker

Tue, Dec 16 Listen
The dance scholar Jennifer Fisher says that The Nutcracker - at least in North America - has become as "regular as clockwork." Some may find it cliche - and for some it may be obligatory. But Fisher argues that Tchaikovsky's piece is one of the most powerful traditions in the world of ballet and that it tells us a lot about the values we share. Tuesday, Fisher joins Doug, along with Ballet West Artistic Director Adam Sklute, for a look at The Nutcracker and the place it holds in our culture.

12/15/08: Top CDs of 2008

Fri, Dec 12 Listen
Monday, Bob Boilen - host of National Public Radio's All Songs Considered - is with us us for a look at the top CDs of 2008. NPR listeners have been voting on their favorites, and Boilen says that a few debut artists have been doing very well despite some great music from the tried and true bands. We'll see who made the final cut and ask the opinion of some of Salt Lake's own critics. We hope you'll join us with your picks too.

12/12/08: Doubt

Thu, Dec 11 Listen
Friday on RadioWest we're profiling John Patrick Shanely's Pulitzer Prize winning play called Doubt. Shanley's film version opens in theaters across the country this month. Doubt is the story of a nun who is certain a priest at her school is molesting one of the students. That certainty is actually the basis for the work: Sister Aloysius sees the world with a sense of faith and conviction. For those rest, including those of us watching, we don't know who or what to believe. (Rebroadcast)

12/11/08: Blackwater

Wed, Dec 10 Listen
It's come to be known as Baghdad's "Bloody Sunday." On September 16th, 2007, 17 Iraqi civilians were killed by machine gun fire. The shooters were all employed by the private security company Blackwater Worldwide. This week, the incident made headlines again when 5 former Blackwater guards turned themselves in to federal authorities in Salt Lake City. Thursday, Doug talks to journalists Jeremy Scahill and Matthew LaPlante about the case and about Blackwater's role in the Iraq war.

12/10/08: Dustin Lance Black - "Milk"

Tue, Dec 9 Listen
When the writer Dustin Lance Black first heard the story of Harvey Milk - it had already been more than a decade since the San Francisco politician had been assassinated. Black was raised in the LDS church - and hearing the story of an openly gay man was a revelation for him. It also gave him hope. Dustin Lance Black wrote the film Milk which opened in theaters Friday. Wednesday he joins Doug to talk about Harvey Milk's story and what it can still teach us 30 years after his death.

12/9/08: 2008 Holiday Book Show

Mon, Dec 8 Listen
What would gift giving be without a good book or two to fire the imaginations of the kids - and the big kids - in your life? We've gathered up our local booksellers with their lists of books that might just give you the idea you've been looking for this holiday season.

12/8/08: Naturalist and Artist Rosalie Winard

Fri, Dec 5 Listen
For many, the Great Salt Lake is little more than the infamous stink that periodically wafts over the valley. But consider this: some 5 million birds call the lake home. Artist Rosalie Winard is inspired by birds like the White Pelican, and she says she wants her images to emphasize each bird as part of a community. Winard's striking photography is on display in Utah, and she joins us to talk about her passion for beauty and the threats to the places these birds call home.

12/5/08: Children of War

Thu, Dec 4 Listen
Millions of children grow up surrounded by war, and the number is growing each year. Two University of Utah researchers study how children's moral development is effected by the violence, lawlessness and deprivation in their lives. Is the future of these children just a bleak moral vacuum, or is there hope? Jenny Brundin talks to Cecilia Wainryb and Monisha Pasupathi about children of war. (Rebroadcast)

12/3/08: High Crimes on Everest

Wed, Dec 3 Listen
When the journalist Michael Kodas went to climb Mount Everest in 2004, he envisioned the project as an adventure piece. By the time he returned he had a crime story. Kodas discovered an atmosphere of corruption on Everest: petty thieves and con men, prostitutes, extortionists. Michael Kodas joins Doug to talk about the book he's written on the experience. It's an expose of a culture that exploit the grand impulse for adventure. (Rebroadcast)

12/2/08: The Alta Experience

Mon, Dec 1 Listen
In its first season - an all-day chairlift pass at Utah's Alta Ski Area cost $1.50. It was 1938, and personalities like ski jump champion Alf Engen and silver miner George Watson were working to make the area a destination. The result wasn't just a world-class ski resort, but a community as well. Alta is celebrating its 70th season this year, and Tuesday, we're talking about Alta and about the development of a billion dollar industry in Utah.

12/1/08: The Big Necessity

Wed, Nov 26 Listen
Some topics - no matter how common they are to all of us - just leave people a little uncomfortable. But one of these - practiced behind closed doors and talked about in euphemisms - is central to clean water and health throughout the world. Monday on RadioWest, we're talking about - well, human waste. The journalist Rose George will join us for a look at something as natural as breathing and yet so unmentionable.

11/25/08: Obama and the West

Tue, Nov 25 Listen
What will the Obama administration mean for the West? For the always delicate issues of land and environment? We've asked people how they would advise the new President on questions of energy development, wilderness designation, roads, wildlife, water. Should he - can he - undo the policies of the Bush administration and what are his own ideas for the West?

11/26/08: Your Last Meal

Tue, Nov 25 Listen
Chefs have a game they like to play called "My Last Supper." It's a simple question really: if you knew this next meal was going to be your last, what would you eat and why? Wednesday - the day before Thanksgiving - we're putting the question to anyone who eats. We've collected a few stories and we'll be joined by Melanie Dunea, photographer and author of the book "My Last Supper" and others. We hope you'll call or e-mail us with your last meal too.

11/24/08: Emily Post

Fri, Nov 21 Listen
The name Emily Post is synonymous with good manners in America. But setting aside the myth reveals a complex woman who weathered a scandalous divorce to recreate herself as her own person. After attempts at writing novels and keeping company with the likes of Mark Twain and Edith Wharton - Post published a small run of her book "Etiquette." It would become the basis of an empire - and some 50 years after her death, her work still influences how we think society should behave.

11/21/08: The Making of a Steinway

Thu, Nov 20 Listen
There are a few places in the world where the creation of a fine instrument is a labor of love - a matter of craft more than mass production. In his documentary "Note by Note," the filmmaker Ben Niles follows the life of such a piano. It's a 9-foot concert grand - a Steinway with a personality and character all its own. Friday on RadioWest, we're rebroadcasting our conversation with Niles and others about craftsmanship, artisans and the relationship between artist and instrument....

11/19/08: The Funeral Industry and Grave Choices

Wed, Nov 19 Listen
Americans are spending somewhere between 11 and 15 billion dollars a year on funerals. Of course, people want fitting memorials for their loved ones, but how much of what we spend is cultural and how much is reaction to marketing at our most vulnerable time? Doug talks to journalist Mark Harris and others about the funeral industry in America. We'll talk about its history, where we are today and about alternatives to the modern burial. (Rebroadcast)

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