Remember when kids used to have time to play – time to actually go outside, make up games and really play? According to our guest this hour, Dr. David Elkind, play has a “central role in [the] healthy intellectual, social, and emotional development” of children. His latest book is “the power of play: how spontaneous, […]
The 2008 Presidential Campaign is already underway and the field is already thick with candidates who want your vote and your donation. We’ll spend this hour with someone who knows all about the national political scene, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe. He’s in town to speak to the DFW World Affairs […]
Have you seen Cirque du Soleil? Have you wondered what it’s like behind the scenes? How do the athletes, musicians and technicians make it work night after night? Our guests this hour are all participants in Corteo, the latest Cirque du Soleil touring production to come to North Texas. We’ll be joined by Richard Dagenais, […]
What does the future hold for Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and where does she think the city is headed? We’ll spend the first segment of tonight’s program with Mayor Miller. Sarah Jane Semrad, Executive Director of the La Reunion artist residency program getting started in Dallas will join us for the Scene segment of the […]
According to the American Heart Association, coronary heart disease, which causes heart attack, is the leading cause of death for American women. We’ll discuss women’s health this hour with Dr. Clyde Yancy and Dr. Shelley Hall, both cardiologists at the Baylor University Medical Center. The National Woman’s Heart Day Health Fair, which is free and […]
You may not know his name, but if you’ve followed politics or even heard a newscast in the last thirteen years you’ve heard his work. Remember the phrase “Contract with America?” How about “the death tax?” Political consultant and pollster Dr. Frank Luntz has literally written the book on words that resonate with people. He’ll […]
For much of their young lives, journalist Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David suffered in the name of religion – both at home in Indiana and at a Christian Fundamentalist boarding school in the Dominican Republic called Escuela Caribe. Scheeres wrote about her experiences in the highly-acclaimed 2005 memoir “Jesus Land” (Counterpoint, 2005). Julia […]
How does your brain get to the “aha!” moment in reasoning? We’ll discuss how your brain puts things together to solve problems with Dr. Dan Krawczyk, of UTD’s Center for Brain Health. Dr. Krawczyk will deliver the lecture, “The Reasoning Mind: Thinking Outside the Box” in the Center for Brain Health’s lecture series next week.
What is compassion? What is courage? We’ll spend the hour with Leslie Garcia, Healthy Living columnist for the Dallas Morning News, whose essay “Compassion” appears in today’s edition of the paper. Garcia is writing a yearlong series on qualities that lead to a balanced life called “The 12 Healthy Virtues.”
Who’s winning the news war? FRONTLINE sets out to answer or at least examine the question in a four-part special which begins on PBS and KERA13 tonight. This hour we’ll discuss the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces that challenge the news media today with Raney Aronson, producer of the FRONTLINE series “News War: Secrets, […]
