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I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 27, 2020
- Length: 05:02
You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 05:13
At my age I should probably being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I tell our daughters that some day they can hav...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 05:17
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus name looks like a combi...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 05:30
Raspberries are in the rose family, Rosaceae, the genus Rubus and with six species in Arizona. Five are native species and one introduced. Rubus id...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 05:17
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 05:19
I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the yellow side, but th...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 05:18
The Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, AZ. started on June 5th of 2020 and as I sit and write this a few weeks later on June 30th ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 05:16
The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower areas and ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 05:26
Isn’t it wonderful to live in a region where clouds and humidity and rain are so celebrated? You can identify the natives and converted natives as ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2020
- Length: 05:05
These day trips of ours into the hills are so renewing. The particular canyon that I talking about is very close to our home and within 30 or 40 mi...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 05:13
We have always tried to get out to hike and picnic in wild places around us here in Cochise County, Arizona. I still go out by myself to botanize a...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:02
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen in...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:07
When This Life Is Over by And The Kids offers a dazzling, earnest reflection of youth-based angst in an era dominated by older generations.
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 02:59
March really is the month of change around all of us in the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. How fun to celebrate the arrival of turkey vulture...
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 04:48
White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably r...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 05:12
“I keep saying ‘where’s the body? Kill someone,’” Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 crime novels a year to determine which are worthy ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 23:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
On this week's episode, we talk about Transformers: Age of Extinction with stars like Kelsey Grammar and Peter Cullen.
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 54:00
Julian asks "How do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?" As usual, the solution here is music.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
Darren Criss: The Song is The Song
Julian sits down with his youngest guest yet, to talk Chet Baker, Cole Porter, and the perpetual importance of t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 01:00:30
- Purchases: 1
Old friends reunite in The Jonathan Channel studios to rehash their strong feelings for the Great American Songbook.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 16, 2016
- Length: 01:00:30
- Purchases: 1
Join Neil deGrasse Tyson as he goes where no scientist has boldly gone before - on an intergalactic exploration of the Great American Songbook!
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 16, 2016
- Length: 01:00:29
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00:30
- Purchases: 1
Julian Fleisher explores The Great American Songbook with one of its proudest immigrants.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 18, 2016
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 1
