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Forward Radio and the Urban Agriculture Coalition were proud sponsors of the 11th annual How-To Festival held on Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 10am-3pm, at the Main Public Library (301 York St.). We brought you live wall-to-wall coverage of many of the sessions and hosted a booth about to how to broadcast and podcast with community radio! The How-To Fest is your chance to learn 50 things in 5 hours! This free, interactive learning extravaganza features more than 50 “how-to” sessions taught by local experts. Listen in as we learn how to raise livestock in the city, grow bananas and tropical fruits, do laughter yoga, divorce from your smartphone, harvest rain water, convert your lawn into a “Yarden”, and so much more. Sessions included lessons in home improvement, gardening, crafts, dance, music, business, art, and more! Goats, chickens, rabbits and a miniature horse were featured in our three garden tents thanks to the Urban Ag Coalition. Learn more at https://www.LFPL.org/how-to.

K.A. Owens interviews educator LaGlenda Reed, about what it takes to inspire, educate and motivate today's young people.
Recorded May 17, 2018.
Current air date Saturday May 11, 2024

Patty and Brian discuss strategies for controlling your smartphone use.

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May is Audiobook Appreciation Month so this week we suggest 10 plus books that give a little added dimension when you listen to the audiobook version. And we aren't even entertaining the notion that listening to audiobooks isn't reading. Listening counts!

Books mentioned--

1- Jinn Daughter by Rania Hanna

2- The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

3- Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North (A 5 star read recommended by fellow book lover Shannon Loar @shopcoffeekids

4- Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, narrated by Kristoffer Tabori

5- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci, narrated by Stanley Tucci

6- Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why by Alexandra Petri, narrated by Rebecca Gibel

7- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, narrated by Marin Ireland

8- The Assasination of Brangwain Spurge by MT Anderson and Eugene Yelchin narrated by Gildart Jackson

9- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, narrated by an ensemble cast

10- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, narrated by Tom Hollander

11- Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams, narrated by author

12- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, narrated by Marin Ireland

13- Ava's Man by Rick Bragg

14-The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and his People by Rick Bragg

15- My Southern Journey: True Journeys from the Heart of the South by Rick Bragg

16- It's All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg

17- Calypso by David Sedaris

18- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

19- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, narrated by Bronson Pinchot

20- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

21- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

22- The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia


Movies and Shows mentioned--

1- Big Night (1996)

2- Stanley Tucci Searching for Italy (CNN)

3- The Hunger Games (2012)

4- The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

5- Daisy Jones and the Six (Amazon, 2023)

6- Leave the World Behind (Netflix, 2023)

7- Ripley (Netflix, 2024)

Farah Mokhtareizadeh has a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She also has a Masters and PhD in Feminist Islamic Studies from a Catholic universities in Irland. She has traveled and worked in a number of middle East countries as well as in Africa.
Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist, author, and co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.
From 2009 to 2019, Kathy Kelly’s activism and writing focused on Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. As a peace and nonviolence activist, she has been arrested more than sixty times in the U.S. in other countries, and written of her experiences among targets of US military bombardment and inmates of US prisons.

James Walter Moore, electrical engineer, data systems consultant and an unsuccessful 2006 Democratic candidate for the 3rd Congressional District (who lost to John Yarmuth), discusses insights gained from that race in his 2023 book, Exile on K Street. His experience taught him a lot about why the current political system is not working to give constituents the politicians who actually represent them. And he points out what can be done to make it easier for citizens to get the information they need to make informed choices at the polls and to bring the polls to them instead of having to find the polls and oftentimes stand in long lines in order to vote.