By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Amy Goodman, journalist and radio host, talks to Doug about her book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and The Media That Love Them." (Repeat)

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Doug talks to author Sue Monk Kidd. Her first novel, "The Secret Life of Bees," was wildly successful. Today she talks about her writing and her newest book "The Mermaid Chair."

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By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Arthur "Killer" Kane was the bass player for the legendary band The New York Dolls. Although the group was short lived, their work influenced the music of the Pretenders, The Sex Pistols and The Clash to name a few. Thirty years later, filmmaker Greg Whiteley finds Arthur Kane working in the Mormon family history library. He had given up drugs and found God. He also had a dream ... of reuniting the band one last time. (Repeat)

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Utah playwright Julie Jensen has created another original work for Salt Lake Acting Company. "Dust Eaters" looks at the 140 year struggle of the Goshute Native American tribe and white immigrants who came to the "promised land." It looks at Utah history in intimate human detail, and brings the audience to modern day conflict over questions of power and privilege.

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Salt Lake City, UT – Trent Harris, the mastermind behind "Rubin and Ed" and "Plan 10 from Outer Space," joins Doug to talk about the eccentricities that make Utah ... well, Utah.

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By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – As KUER celebrates its 45th anniversary, we take a look at Harper Lee's 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Doug is joined by scholar Claudia Durst Johnson, and by Mary Badham, who portrayed Scout in the 1962 movie.

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Salt Lake City, UT – Doug talks to Terry Gross about her work on Fresh Air and about her newest book "All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists."

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Salt Lake City, UT – From parks to playgrounds to fire stations and food banks, cuts proposed by the Bush Administration in Community Development Block Grants and Community Services Block Grants will have real impacts on cities and social service agencies in Utah. KUER's Dan Bammes reports.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Martha Beck is the author of "Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith." The daughter of Mormon intellectual Hugh Nibley, her controversial memoir chronicles her account of her life in the church, in the Nibley family, and her personal journey of recovery.

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