“Follow your bliss and the universe will open
doors for you where there were only walls”
~ Joseph Campbell

Sunday nights
Beginning @ 11e/10c/9m/8p
::Obvious World::

Broadcasting on Sunlight

In May, KRUU was featured in Radio Ink, radio's premier management & marketing magazine for its pioneering incorporation of sustainable, renewable energy. On September 9, 2009 it became the first and only solar-powered radio station in the Midwest.

The July/August issue of The Iowan: Celebrating the Best of Iowa Since 1952 highlights KRUU's commitment to solar energy in its Potluck section. The glossy publication has a picture of KRUU's solar arrays next to its live remote mobile unit.

KRUU in Fairfield (www.kruufm.com online and 100.1 on the local FM dial) was the first station in Iowa to use solar power. Donated solar panels and a small grant set the low-power station on a path to reducing its environmental impact, says station general manager James Moore. In addition to a solar-powered studio and transmitter, the station is installing energy-efficient windows and asthma- and allergy-friendly flooring.

"We gained 15-20 percent in energy savings, but the solar panels are symbolic of a broader move in the direction of sustainability," says Moore. "KRUU is community radio at its finest--a tribute to a green-thinking community that is focused on what's possible."

Monica and Caroline welcome Boston College English professor Amy Boesky to Writers' Voices to discuss her memoir of new motherhood and the deep connections of sisters who grew up in the shadow of a family legacy of early death from cancer. This emotionally satisfying memoir shows us what it means to live in the moment when you live with the knowledge that your moments may be all too few. "What We Have" was published by Penguin Books.  Boesky was also one of the principal ghostwriters for the popular young adult series "Sweet Valley High."

Join us once again for an intimate conversation all about writing with a wonderful author.

A reading recorded in April 2010 at the MUM Library.

Joy Lyle teaches at Indian Hills Community College and has been published in Poetry Northwest and other journals.

Nynke Passi teaches at MUM and is featured in the new anthology THIS ENDURING GIFT set to appear later in September.

Today on Local Yokels, James Moore interviews award-winning magic harpist Peter Sterling about his angelic journey into worldwide musical success from surfer to ski instructor to the silence of the Sedona mountains to Stonehenge and beyond. Sterling will be performing in Fairfield at a rooftop concert under the stars across from AJ's Bicycle Shop Friday, September 3rd sponsored by the Dharma Foundation, Circle Crop Restaurant ans KRUU-FM. He'll lead a workshop on Sunday. Thymely Solutions has more ticket information.

This Saturday from 5-6pm on the Lord Octo show nothing else matters. Let Joe, Mick, Paul, and Topper bring the punk out of you.

THE CLASH, folks, the greatest band ever to grace this planet.

So turn your dial to 100.1 fm. - go straight to hell in your brand new cadillac and get gripped by that deadly phantom.

I've got to relay some tragic news. David has finished the compound and will no longer grace us with his presence (at least for the forseeable future). On a positive note, he did say anyone who reads his manifesto is permitted entry into his personal shangri-la. So I'm tipping my forty of O.E. in his honor and retiring his black turtleneck to the mannequin I set up in his place. But hey, the music is still too compelling to stop so I'll be bringing you fresh produce for a soft landing, including Ra Ra Riot (if you don't know 'em you should), Bill Baird, The Crookes and the semi-local Elsinore as well as tracks from Blind Pilot, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Built To Spill and Broken Social Scene among others. Who said boys don't cry (yeah that's foreshadowing).

Luke

Saturday morning hear electronic music from Jon Jenkin's "Flow"; Markus Reuter's "Trepanation"; David Helping's "Sleeping On the Edge of the World"; Kaya Project's "Elixir"; Rudy Adrian's "Moonwater"; Dean De Benedictis' "Salvaging the Past"; Between Interval's "Radio Silence" and Lena, with a song from "Extended Gestures For Cello".

"Letting go,

I can see the sadness what once was me.

And all this time I have known that

the river,

this river

would carry me home." ~ Jon Jenkins "Flow"

Blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. 
                                                        -- Jimi Hendrix

Another week of killer interviews with KRUU's Mike Ragogna, entertainment contributor to the Huffington Post.

On Wednesday at 1pm CST (rebroadcast Friday at 8am), Mike talks with filmmaker/screenwriter Jon Chu and Canadian rockers Tegan & Sara.

Chu is an alumni of the USC School of Cinema-Television. There, he won the Princess Grace Award, the Dore Schary Award presented by the Anti-Defamation league, the Jack Nicholson directing award, and recognized as an honoree for the IFP/West program Project: Involve. After making his student short, "When the Kids Are Away", Jon was scooped up by the William Morris Agency and attached to several high profile projects.

Tegan and Sara is a Canadian indie pop/indie rock/New Wave band led by identical twins Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin. Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write songs, most often separately. Whoever writes each song typically sings the lead vocals for it. The band has released six studio albums since 1999, most recently Sainthood in 2009.