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Nancy Kranzberg
Media Literacy Post McLuhan
Aired February 03, 2012
With all this new technology and ways of learning that McLuhan in his seer-like fashion predicted, I am more fine tuned into noticing the media in which we learn in the arts. Not so long ago, in a much more elemental way when technology wasn't nearly what it is today, major changes in viewing, hearing and interpreting art were still being made.
Bob Archibald
The Planter's House
Aired January 20, 2012
During the 1860s the Planters’ House on Fourth and Pine was the choice for a conference of several powerful men who were vying for Missouri in the war that had just exploded in South Carolina and was rapidly engulfing the entire nation.
Nancy Kranzberg
Textiles
Aired January 06, 2012
St Louis regional artists and arts institutions have shown that the arts are really alive and that collaboration is the name of the game. We don't need to wait another year and a half to enjoy the richness of fiber arts and textiles. They are being exhibited in one venue or another regularly.
Tom Schlafly
Changing the Meaning of "Blight"
Aired January 05, 2012
Although Missouri today is not an Orwellian society, some state and local governments have given some words definitions that won’t be found in dictionaries and are contrary to common usage and common sense. Take, for example, the word “boat.” Most of us picture something that floats, ranging in size from a canoe to a large yacht. Under the Missouri Constitution, however, a multi-story building that houses a casino near a major river is said to be a “riverboat.”
The evolving definition of the word “blight” is even more curious.
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