After the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979, popular opinion turned markedly against the industry, and no new plants were built for more than three decades. The incidents at Chernobyl and Fukishima didn’t help its image. But in the battle against climate change, could nuclear power be a better option […]
Here’s my conversation with Jillian Moul, co-director of “Surviving Home,” a documentary that follows four veterans over an eight-year period as they rebuild their lives after war. Among the questions I asked her: How did you get them to open up? Are they still proud they volunteered to go to war, or wish they’d never […]
Next week will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine, with John Lennon on the cover. The occasion will be marked with a four-hour documentary by Alex Gibney, “Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge,” airing on HBO 11/6-7. Also timed for the anniversary: Joe Hagan’s biography of […]
One of the performers I wish I’d had the chance to see in person was Sammy Davis Jr. He was incredibly talented — singer, dancer, tap dancer, actor, impressionist — and the first African American to be invited by the President to spend a night in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. I have […]
In 1942, during World War II, St. Louis was chosen (as part of the Manhattan Project) as the first place to process uranium for atomic bombs. Seven-and-a-half decades later, the radioactive waste leftover from that process is still underground in the suburb of Bridgeton and communities on contaminated Coldwater Creek. As if that weren’t bad […]
It’s very rare that I criticize another radio host on the same station that employs me, but when I got in my car and turned on KTRS Wednesday afternoon at 4:50pm, I heard Kent Ehrhardt (who does the 3-6pm show Tuesday through Thursday, while I do Monday and Friday) taking calls from listeners for a […]