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By popular demand a return visit by renowned entomologist Professor Barrett Klein with his truly fascinating book, The Insect Epiphany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture. A volume filled with photographs and drawings and pages of notes Barrett’s contagious enthusiasm for bugs promises to delight you. Even if you’re a lifelong arachnophobe or terrified by anything that slithers or stings set your fears aside for 23 minutes to listen and be enchanted. Insects have informed humanity since the beginning of time, healed us, fed us, inspired us, comforted us, even taught us to fly! Learn much more at Barrett Klein’s website pupating.org where he invites you to explore a world at the intersection of science and art.

It’s always fun and fascinating when I’m joined in the KSFR studios by travel journalists, cultural adventurers and delightful entertainers, Judith Fein and Paul Ross for my annual Halloween themed show. Today, we mix it up with two of their best-selling books, How to Communicate with The Dead and Slow Travel New Mexico. Judie and Paul take death away from the morbid and fearful to celebrate the lives of loved ones as many cultures have done for millennia, here and around the world. Plus, we’re joined by “ghost writer” PJ with a spine-tingling tale written especially for today’s show! You can meet Judie and Paul in person on Sunday, November 3rd at 1:00 pm at Los Luceros, the beautiful historic site 10 miles north of Espanola. Arrive early for a mini balloon fiesta. Also, PJ will be performing Saturday, November 16th, 11:00 am at Hotel Albuquerque.In December, find Judie and Paul in Los Alamos, Las Vegas (NM) and at Santa Fe’s Southside Library. Full details of all appearances, events, and of course books, at their website www.globaladventure.org

Twenty-three minutes fly by with prolific Santa Fe author, columnist, “sleuthsayer,” and Russian scholar who worked in former Cold War intelligence in West Berlin, David Edgerley Gates. Recently described as a “one-man Google,” we attempt to cover the last 100 years through glimpses into the wartime theater, the focussed intent of the arts, and what might-or might not-be hidden in our current times.

Today, essential and very practical information for all aspiring authors with encouragement for all writers, poets and screenwriters in the state. I’m joined by New Mexico Writer's Executive Director James McGrath Morris and grant committee member Sandra Blakeslee. Learn how you can apply for grant monies to complete your book and network with other writers across the state.

Immerse yourself this evening in the evocative poetry of Mary Ellen Capek reading from her first ever collection, Love Lessons: Poems 1973-2023.

In just over five months, New Mexicans will head to the polls for the state’s primary election, setting the stage for one of the most consequential races on the November ballot: the contest to elect the next governor to succeed incumbent Michelle Lujan Grisham.On this program, the two leading Democratic candidates—former congresswoman and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Bernalillo County District Attorney Samuel Bregman—join Forum hosts Jim Falk and Peter Smith in separate interviews. To allow listeners to compare their views, the same questions were posed to each candidate whenever possible.

What makes a fantasy writer tick, how does imagination soar and land on the pages of a real, live book? Molly O’Sullivan joins me with her debut novel The Book of Autumn hidden away among the red mesas of northern New Mexico at a mysterious college of magic and witchcraft. Somewhere near Taos she hints. Warning: don’t try to take a day trip there to find the school, even with GPS. But do find her book at her website mollyrosullivan.com

This week on The Business of Art, Nocona interviews artist and former Patina Gallery creative director Ivan Barnett.

This week on The Business of Art, Nocona interviews Delmone D. Taylor, a renowned and talented musician and saxophonist holding the title of the most endorsed saxophonist.

In this compelling episode of In Between, we welcome Yvonne R. Smith, C.Ht., Certified Hypnotherapist and renowned UFO Abduction Researcher, author, and lecturer.