St. Louis on the Air

<p>On Thursday's <em>St. Louis on the Air</em>, host Don Marsh spoke with Jennifer Teege, a German author whose book "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past" details her discovery that her grandfather was an infamously brutal World War II commandant. The pair were joined by Dan Reich curator and director of education for the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in St. Louis County.</p>

<p>Host Don Marsh talks to members of the Ahmad family, who reside in St. Louis County, about their volunteer work locally and abroad. The family co-founded Biking4Books, a non-profit that raises money to donate books to St. Louis city schools. They also travel to Bangladesh to help Rohingya refugees. </p>

<p>On Wednesday's <em>St. Louis on the Air</em>, host Don Marsh facilitated a conversation about the limitations facing American immigrants seeking employment and new policies being implemented to diminish these barriers. Joining the conversation were Anna Crosslin, president and CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis; Amanda Bergson-Schilcock, director of upskilling policy at the National Skills Coalition in Washington, D.C.; and Eduardo Sequeira Hernandez, a recent Costa Rican immigrant serving now as a cloud compliance specialist for Nestlé Purina.</p>

<p>Host Don Marsh talks to members and an ally of Missouri's trans and gender non-conforming community about their efforts to bring awareness to the rights and presence of trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) individuals.</p>

<p>On Tuesday's <em>St. Louis on the Air,</em> host Don Marsh discussed confronting discrimination in the workplace with Susan Balk, Founder of Hatebreakers and Holly Edgell, St. Louis Public Radio race, identity and culture editor. Both guests will be participants in the Missouri Historical Society's upcoming "Woke at Work" panel.</p>

<p>In conversation with panelists Bill Freivogel, Marcia McCormick and Mark Smith, host Don Marsh touches on several of the latest regional stories pertaining to the law as well as the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the dismissal of Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Trump.</p>

<p>Emily Lohse-Busch, Natalie DiNicola and Sam Fiorello share their experiences with the local STEM startup scene with host Don Marsh. </p>

<p>Alongside current breast cancer patient Jossalyn Larson, cancer survivor Heather Salazar, who is president of <a href= "https://www.pinkribbongirls.org/">Pink Ribbon Girls</a>, and Dr. Theresa Schwartz, a breast surgeon with SLUCare and SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, discuss some of the more mundane and often unanticipated challenges that frequently impact patients – and particularly women – while undergoing treatment.</p>

<p>St. Louis county voters will have to decide whether they will approve a 1/8th of one cent sales tax increase to help fund and maintain the St. Louis Zoo’s operations, specifically a new Conservation and Animal Science Center. Host Don Marsh moderated an in-depth debate between a supporter and opponent of the proposition.</p>

<p>On Wednesdays <em>St. Louis on the Air, </em>host Don Marsh spoke with Kalen McAllister and Pete Wallace, the founder and kitchen manager respectively of the Laughing Bear Bakery. The downtown shop is known for its delicious treats, and for its policy of only employing individuals with a felony record.</p>

<p>Is the purpose of college to prepare for a career or to pursue learning and knowledge as inherently worthwhile endeavors? That question isn’t a simple one to answer, and its tensions thoroughly inform a new book, co-authored by Washington University Provost Holden Thorp, titled "Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities."</p>

<p>On Tuesday's <em>St. Louis on the Air</em>, host Don Marsh discussed a new program implemented by Washington University in St. Louis that uses virtual reality to train faculty and staff in assessing and addressing the mental-health status of their students. He was joined by Jordan Worthington, the university’s assistant director of mental-health outreach and programming; Dr. Cheri LeBlanc, executive director of the Habif Health and Wellness Center; and Dr. Glenn Albright, the Co-Founder and Director of Research at Kognito, the health-simulation company responsible for At Risk for College and University Faculty and Staff.</p>

<p>Thirty years ago, Bruce Vantine decided he wanted to take the power of narrative choral music to a new level. "I had seen how effective [these] programs could be, and very often they’ve been focused on Christmas,” Vantine, who was on the University of Missouri-St. Louis music faculty at the time, recalled on Monday's <em>St. Louis on the Air</em>. "But I got the idea of doing a Thanksgiving type of a program with a social-justice message – so that we could touch people’s hearts." So began his St. Louis-based nonprofit organization that continues to spread its message of empathy throughout the U.S. and Canada.</p>

<p>A Dutch historian is in St. Louis this week searching for information about 172 African-American soldiers who are buried or memorialized in the Netherlands American Cemetery.</p>

<p>Host Don Marsh talks with three local Jewish residents participating in the first Jewish arts and culture festival taking place in the city. </p>

<p>Host Don Marsh discusses the mounting effort to bring a team to St. Louis with Webster University's Jack Croghan and local attorney and soccer enthusiast Brian Howe.</p>

<p>Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Miriam Ruiz and Colin McLaughlin - plus two very young local artists - explore immigration, labor and identity through a creative lens.</p>

<p>On Thursday's <em>St. Louis on the Air,</em> host Don Marsh spoke with author and St. Louis native William Knoedelseder about his latest book, "Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit.”</p>

<p>On Wednesday's <em>St. Louis on the Air,</em> host Don Marsh was joined by two Sauce Magazine contributors for a conversation about the best new local restaurants in the month of October.</p>

<p>“We’ve got over 1,400 careers that we’ve launched so far in the five years that LaunchCode has been [in St. Louis], but that doesn’t count the people who have taken our training and gotten placed elsewhere,” explains entrepreneur and investor Jim McKelvey.</p>

<p>Ever get the feeling of excessive exhaustion, lack of sleep and motivation from working? Host Don Marsh talks about ways in which people who are invested in emotionally draining work can avoid burnout and practice self-care. </p>

<p>Musical-theater aficionados likely associate four-time Tony nominee Terrence Mann with the original Rum Tum Tugger of “Cats,” Inspector Javert in “Les Miserables” or perhaps one of the titular characters in “Beauty and the Beast.” Now the acclaimed actor is diving into yet another key role – this one on a St. Louis stage that will take him under the sea as King Triton.</p>

<p>The Hispanic community in the Missouri region has grown significantly over the past few decades and it's made it's impact on small businesses. In light of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15), host Don Marsh talked to Gabriela Ramirez-Aarellan, business counselor at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in St. Louis and. co-host of DMeToo podcast, photographer Carol Lara and Ness Sandoval, associate professor of sociology at St. Louis University, about the influence of Hispanic businesses on the region. </p> <p> </p>

<p>On Monday's <em>St. Louis on the Air</em>, host Don Marsh discussed Christopher Columbus’s complex legacy with Peter Kastor, professor and chair of the Department of History at Washington University. Marsh also spoke to Bill Reininger, the executive director of Tower Grove Park, regarding the status of the commission tasked with determining the future of the park's Columbus statue.</p>

<p><em>St. Louis Public Radio political reporter Jo Mannies and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jim Craig, director of UMSL’s Veterans Studies program, offer their perspectives on one of the big news stories of the week.<br /> <br /></em></p>

<p>Joneal “Jop” Joplin has lost count of exactly how many roles he’s performed on St. Louis-area stages during his long acting career based in the region. “I know that I’ve done something like 215, 220 shows in St. Louis – 101 at the Rep, 66 at the Muny,” he estimated Friday while talking with host Don Marsh on <em>St. Louis on the Air.</em></p>

<p>Host Don Marsh talks to local organizers of voter registration drives to see how they will try boost voter participation for the Nov. 6 midterm elections. </p>

<p>Midterm elections are important. But Sandra Moore, former president of Urban Strategies, told "St. Louis on the Air" host Don Marsh that “mobilizing folks to register and vote” is what's most important. She helped organize a voter education and registration drive that seeks to energize women in north St. Louis and north St. Louis County for the Nov. 6 election. </p>

<p>Stephen Sondheim hesitates to settle on a single beginning point from which his now 70-year-long career in musical theater took off. There were the piano lessons he began taking as a young child, something he acknowledges may have “infiltrated” him early on. Then there’s the show he wrote at age 15, a script family friend Oscar Hammerstein gave an unsparing critique. He also credits his enjoyment of films growing up.</p>

<p>UMSL Chancellor Tom George and Provost Kristin Sobolik address the state of the university.</p>

<p>13-year-old Kennedy Holmes took many people by surprise because of her mature voice on the 15th season of NBC's The Voice singing competition. During the blind auditions, all four celebrity judges spun around in approval to ask Holmes to join their team. Host Don Marsh talked to the Florissant teen about her experience on the show and what her life has been like since going viral. </p>

<p>Over the past 40 years, San Francisco-based Chanticleer has gone to great lengths and unexpected places to refine and expand its vocal repertoire, bringing striking arrangements of popular music into the mix as well as commissioning new choral works by contemporary composers. But centuries-old songs can also be full of surprises – including Antonio de Salazar’s arrangement of “Salve Regina.”</p>

<p>On Tuesday's <em>St. Louis on the Air </em>host Don Marsh spoke with author and Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel about the erosion of civil public discourse, political polarization, and the role of truth in American democratic life.</p>

<p>On Monday's St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh talks with Sue McCarthy, the owner of Vault Luxury Resale and author of the new book "Good Better Best: The Rags-to-Riches Story of the Upscale Retail Queen."</p>

<p>East St. Louis native and Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper Nelson is taking a break from running and spoke to host Don Marsh about her career, being a female athlete, activism and upcoming speaking engagements. </p>

<p><em>Longtime journalist Margaret Wolf Freivogel shares her impressions of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings she observed in 1991 and 2018.</em></p>

<p>The universal concept of friendship will be explored musically in the St. Louis Chamber Chorus's opening concert to its 2018-2019 season, “States of Being." The SLCC's artistic director Philip Barnes and Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds talked to host Don Marsh about their musical collaboration. </p>

<p>Rosetta Watson was functionally evicted from Maplewood after a former boyfriend attacked her. She recently spoke with St. Louis Public Radio’s "We Live Here" podcast team after winning a settlement against the city.<em><br /> <br /></em></p>

<p>Host Don Marsh talks to St. Louis Public Radio education reporter Ryan Delaney, who clarified the status of charter schools in the St. Louis area.</p>

<p>Host Don Marsh delves deeper into the “<a href= "https://apps.kbia.fm/2018-beyond-the-ballot/" data-cke-saved-href= "https://apps.kbia.fm/2018-beyond-the-ballot/">Beyond the Ballot</a>” project with St. Louis Public Radio reporter Ashley Lisenby and Harvest Public Media editor Erica Hunzinger to see what Missouri voters' aspirations are for the November midterm elections. </p>

<p> Dr. Sandeep Jauhar spoke about his newest book 'Heart: A History,' which examines the historical, philosophical, and physiological characteristic of the human body's most complex organ, the heart.</p>

<p><em>St. Louis on the Air's</em> monthly Legal Roundtable reconvened Wednesday to discuss a variety of local and national legal stories, from the Kavanaugh confirmation controversy to the new sex discrimination lawsuit surrounding a retirement community in Sunset Hills.</p>

<p>Store owners Vincent Hromadka, Maddie Earnest and Chris Goodson are each familiar with the challenges – and the joys – of running a smaller grocery operation in the city.</p>

<p>An evening of merriment, fun and flavor doesn’t have to involve alcohol – that’s an oft-repeated and frequently doubted notion. But it’s a growing mantra even among some bartenders and drink-industry enthusiasts, and it needn’t be a buzz kill.</p>

<p>Mark Sutherland and Thomas Richardson discuss the influence of Scottish culture on the St. Louis region ahead of the 15th annual St. Louis Scottish Games & Culture Festival.</p>

<p>Deb Gaut, Paul Weiss and Dr. Ken Druck discuss aging successfully and living a full and healthy life.</p>

<p>Host Don Marsh talks to educators Julie Smith and Marialice Curran about digital wellness and citizenship, and how to help guide children though the digital world. </p>

<p>Host Don Marsh discusses the plot and musical set of The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' "Evita" production with the company's artistic director Steve Woolf and actor Pepe Nufrio.</p>

<p>Amber Sebold and Carmen Connors discuss how they adapted minimalism to their own lives.</p>

<p>Ken Nix explains the importance of the work done by the St. Louis Regional Computer Crimes Education and Enforcement Group.</p>