This week--like last week--from 9:00 to 10:00 PM, I'll play more of my favorite Steely Dan songs.

Every Thursday from 10:00 to 10:30 PM, I play a set of comedy built on one or more themes. This week's theme is US Presidents--featuring National Lampoon and The Onion, with a little Daily Show, The Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live.

Howdy, y'all. This week on Crooked Sisters Radio Hour I'll be celebrating in song the ordinary working folks in this country, with new releases, old standards, and even some unreleased material on the subject.

Join me, your host Lauryn Shapter, in a tribute to the working man by the many wonderful women of Roots and Americana, Thursday, 10 to noon.

In this week's show, DJ Andy Bargerstock will take us on another journey through charming melodies and ethereal soundscapes. Snakefarm's "Songs from My Funeral" will be the featured CD of the evening. This duo consisting of Anna Domino and Michel Delory transform traditional folk songs into a downtempo, electro-acoustic sound that is "reminiscent of a collision among so-called acid-jazz, rave and film noire." (George Graham, WVIA-FM).

Yet, DJ Andy has more in store for you from his cavern of obscure music. For those longing for the psychedelic era, you will enjoy the 9-minute "Unfolding" track from the 2002 CD, "Inside the Acid Temple" by Liquid Sound Company. This CD is already selling at a premium on the used copy market. Their music is described as "a mindblowing mixture of psych, space rock, West Coast sounds, Middle Eastern scales, spaced lyrics and cosmic vibes." (www.psychedelic-music.de) Oh, yes! This does sound like Fringe Toast material.

The Synaptic Leap is a project started by Ginger Taylor aiming to create enabling systems to make open source, collaborative development straightforward for biomedical researchers. The project bills itself as "Open Biomedical Research", and this is the topic of this week's show.

This week on Open Views I'm joined by Dr. Matthew Todd, lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Todd's work in drug discovery for tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis is internationally recognized. He is also a proponent of the use of the Free/Open Source model for doing biomedical research in areas such as tropical diseases and biochemistry.

Dr. Matthew Todd is currently a research advisor at The Synaptic Leap, and we'll be talking about what Open Source in bio-medicine really means, how it is implemented, and what the impact of the Free/Open model is in biomedical research.

Ari Berman, based in New York, New York, is a contributing writer for The Nation and a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at The Nation Institute.

Ari will be in the studio today to talk about all things politics with James Moore. You can read Ari's thoughts about the Demoratic Jefferson-Jackson event up in Des Moines this past weekend on The Nation website: "Obama Steps It Up--But So Does Clinton"

Here's the link to his longer pieces for the magazine, including cover stories on Rudy Guilliani and Hillary Clinton.

For past KRUU-FM show archives, click here.

Writers' Voices with Monica and Caroline continues their November theme of women's wisdom with this week's guest, award-winning author and international speaker, Jennifer Read Hawthorne.

Jennifer is co-author of four bestselling books, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul. Both books reached #1 on the New York Times and #1 and #2 on USA Today’s best-seller lists and continue to be among the most popular of all books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

As an author and self-esteem expert, Jennifer has appeared on CNN, Sally Jesse Raphael, Pure Oxygen, and hundreds of national, regional and local TV and radio shows. She has been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles, and writes articles for national magazines such as Ladies Home Journal.

Join Monica and Caroline Monday Nov 12 at 8am for a conversation with Jennifer about her new book, "Life Lessons for Loving the Way you Live," and how she came to write it.

Tonight's show will take you on a trip through some beautiful and fun soundscapes created by individuals from all across the world.

I'll be featuring new music from the Broque.de, Aeronautique.de, and Digilog.gr netlabels; so tune in and enjoy after Theo Bowen's "Short List"...

-Obvious World
100.1 KRUU FM LP
Sunday Nights
11pm eastern (10pm central)

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Amit plays serves up

another delicious helping

of Radio Curry--

spicey musical flavors

from Bollywood to Bombay to Bangalore--

every Sunday at 4pm.

~Enjoy~