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New music from Lonnie Fisher, Hembree, Katy Guillen and The Drive, Fritz & Sons, and more. Our live guest is MellowPhobia, with tracks recorded live at The Bottleneck and in studio interview with lead vocalist and songwriter Tillie Alexandra Hall. -
Welcome to the jungle! On this week's Film Music Friday, we venture into the world of jungle movies. We'll hear music from King Kong, The Most Dangerous Game, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Phantom, Congo...even George of the Jungle. -
Earth is being invaded once again by aliens at KPR's next Virtual Cinema a Go-Go! Join us for Terror From the Year 5,000 (1958) and Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) on Friday, August 22, at 7 p.m. -
Zofoduet.com/Press KitCheck out their Lawrence concert of one piano/four hands magic. -
HeadQuarters Kansas - the Lawrence-based nonprofit that runs the 988 suicide prevention hotline - has spent the last year dealing with a shake-up in leadership and several other issues. How are things going one year later? KPR speaks with the man who's been running the agency since last summer. -
Calen Moore/Kansas News ServiceThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is adding 13 programs to a list of public benefits restricted to people under certain immigration statuses. Officials say this will reduce the burden on taxpayers.
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KRC believes that multifaceted farming systems hold the key to preserving, developing and maintaining a food and farming future that provides healthy food, a healthy environment and social structure, and meaningful livelihoods.
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The KBI is investigating what happened to a cross-country runner at Dodge City Community College. Delia Montes is in critical condition in a Wichita hospital. -
Dozens of rare and historic Civil War battle flags stored at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka are falling apart and in desperate need of restoration. But repairing just a single flag can cost tens of thousands of dollars. -
The stories of life behind bars, by those living it. We'll hear from the creators of the podcast Ear Hustle, bringing their live show to Lawrence this weekend. Also, Brian Daldorph shares the poetry of former inmate Antonio Sanchez Day. -
Private prison company CoreCivic is temporarily barred from holding detainees at its dormant Leavenworth facility. Yet preparations to reopen are going full steam ahead. -
Summer afternoon temperatures have cooled off in the middle of the country in recent decades. But hotter nights and winters are still driving more overall warmth in the region.
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The U.S. State Department says it's halting visas for visitors from Gaza as it reviews its process for granting visas for medical evacuees. -
Immigration arrests falter in July after a big push for mass deportations in June. Activists in sanctuary jurisdictions hope their resistance plays a role. -
The world got a glimpse of Marwan Barghouti for the first time in years in a video of a far-right Israeli minister berating him. -
Canada's government forced Air Canada and its striking flight attendants back to work and into arbitration Saturday after a work stoppage stranded more than 100,000 travelers around the world. -
Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean on Saturday, rapidly powering up from a tropical storm in a single day, the National Hurricane Center said.
On this edition of Conversations, Gordon Korman talks with host Dan Skinner about his middle-grade novel, “Snoop – Once You Start Looking, It’s Hard to Look Away.
