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Que Tal? Program Episode Highlights for February 5-11, 2023

Want to know what topics hosts and guests will be discussing on your favorite talk shows this week? Or what themes your favorite music hosts will be highlighting? Click on each day for details of show episodes. If you like what you see and hear, go to our Donate page and show your support! A full list of programming may be found on our Schedule page.

Sunday

The First Rock and Roll Song
Sunday 12-3 AM
Host Jamie Dell’Apa features so many songs about "Later Baby" and asks, “do songs built atop a foundational lyric of ‘I'm The One Who Loves You’ sound similar?” Hear group harmony and rock songs based on the cha cha.

Interfaith Voices
Sunday 8-9 AM
are producers and directors of the new Henry Louis Gates, Jr. documentary series, The Black Church: This is Our Story. They describe how they got involved with the project and what they hope its four hours impart about the most powerful institution in Black culture -- the Black church. They describe the precarious position the Black church is in today, wedged between the recent resurgence of white supremacy and a new flourishing of its political power.

Counterspin
Sunday 11-11:30 AM
Fri 12-12:30 PM, Rebroadcast
Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid. At the same time, shareholder payouts went up by $1.9 billion, increases that could have paid those households’ bills five times over. Stacy Holman, research fellow at the Energy and Policy Institute, and Shayla Harris, energy justice campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, illustrate how energy bills take up more and more of families’ earnings, and how the actions of corporations take a tough situation, make it worse, and then hand it off to their allies in the press corps, who will present it as “business as usual if regrettable.”

Making Contact
Sun 11:30 AM-12 PM, Rebroadcast
Friday 12:30-1 PM
Rebecca Nagle, reporter for the Nation, and Cherokee writer and advocate and host of This Land says the fight over The Indian Child Welfare Act Is not just a custody battle. It’s a lesser-known case in the docket for the Supreme Court, but if the Act is overturned, it could have massive implications for the laws that govern Indigenous sovereignty in the United States. Hear about the case of Baby O and the Librettis and how their story led to Halaand v. Brakeen and the money and interests behind the lawsuit.

The Moth
Sun 1-2 PM, Rebroadcast
Tuesday 5-6 PM
A special episode, in honor of Black History Month, with stories that celebrate the diversity of the Black experience. Dye jobs, dream jobs, and swimming pools. Harold Cox brings his Texas roots--and speech patterns-- to his first Boston radio gig. Danyel Smith follows the music and finds a place for herself in the world of journalism. CJ Hunt grows up trying to "adjust the thermostat" of his racial identity. While out for a swim, Hasna Muhammad finds a kindred spirit.

Strange Currency
Sunday 2-4 PM, Rebroadcast
Thursday 11 PM-1 AM
Jeff Beaudoin features new music from The New Pornographers, Peter Gabriel, and The Hold Steady as well as selections from Elvis Costello’s upcoming box set looking back at his collaborations with legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach, including their late ‘90s album Painted From Memory.

Special Programming
Sunday 5-6 PM
Thurs 9-10 AM, Rebroadcast
Afropop Worldwide Special: The Black History of the Banjo. Producer Ben Richmond traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own. Rhiannon Giddens, Bassekou Kouyate, Bela Fleck and more talk claw-hammers, trad jazz, Appalachian folk, African ancestors and the on-going story of American music, which would be woefully incomplete without a Black history of the banjo.

Music They Don't Want You to Hear
Wed 10 PM - 12 AM
Sunday 6-8 PM
Ron Cooke celebrates that most important holiday, Groundhog Day, after which we visit elephants, Ordinary Elephants, a wonderful folk duo who will be performing in Las Cruces. I also indulge my sweet tooth - candy anyone?

Monday

The New England Journal of Medicine
Monday 9:30-10 AM
Hear a discussion of a recent FDA advisory committee meeting that looked at harmonizing vaccine strains, simplifying the immunization schedule, and updating the antigens in Covid vaccines.

Alternative Radio
Monday 12-1 PM
Angela Davis presents Beginnings: Movements of Possibility. Today there is nostalgia for an imagined past and a desire to recreate it. Do we want to go back or continue to move forward building on hard-fought gains? During another perilous time, Martin Luther King, Jr. declared, “We’ve got to massively confront the power structure.” We are at a crossroads: the beginning of a brighter or darker future. The choice is ours.

Global Village
Monday 3-4 PM
Chris Heim marks the birthday of reggae legend Bob Marley with music from his classic recordings and from a wide range of covers of his songs from such artists as I-Three members Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, Ivorian star Tiken Jah Fakoly, roots groups The Gladiators and Inner Circle, original Wailer Bunny Wailer, contemporary group Rebel Tumbao, and more.

The Latin Alternative
Monday 2-3 PM, Rebroadcast
Saturday 4-5 PM
Josh Norek and Ernesto Lechner take the time machine four decades back to 1982, a year that brought some true gems of Latin funk, rock, salsa and Brazilian music. Featured artists include Ray Barretto, Gal Costa, Mandrill, Johnny Ventura, Sonora Ponceña, Milton Nascimento and Luis Alberto Spinetta.

Reveal
Monday 5-6 PM
From Russia to Sweden and the United States, there’s a growing network of White nationalist groups. The reporting team at Verified investigates how these militant groups are helping each other create propaganda, recruit new members and share paramilitary skills. The episode, first aired in July, is updated to reflect recent activities by the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and other white supremacist groups. Scripps News senior investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt interviews a leader of the RIM and a neo-Nazi who was a major promoter of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Tuesday

Cafe Con Leche
Tuesday 8-9 AM
Friday 2-3 PM, Rebroadcast
Greg Smith talks to artists who are featured in the Dona Ana Arts Galleries in February. Georjeanna Feltha’s show “Vindication, Restoration, and New Beginnings“ is up in the galleries most of February,
Derrick Lee whose jazz group will be performing in the Main Gallery on February 17 and Bob Diven who will be presenting “Confessions of an Editorial Cartoonist” in the Main Gallery on February 25.

Reporter's Notebook
Tuesday 9-10 AM
Thursday 5-6 PM, Rebroadcast
New Mexico House Minority Floor Leader Ryan Lane, an attorney who represents San Juan County will talk with Damien Lewis about how he is approaching this year’s 60-day session of the New Mexico Legislature. Totaling $9.4 billion in recurring spending — an 11.9% increase from the last fiscal year — there is no shortage of ideas on how to best spend the money. Many lawmakers are pitching their ideas to address some of the state’s most pressing issues — education, public safety, early childhood development, bail reform, water conservation and energy, just to name a few.

Earth Matters
Tuesday 10-11 AM
Allyson Siwik talks to former Interstate Stream Commission Director and Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly President Norm Gaume about New Mexico’s 50-year water planning effort to evaluate the predicted impacts of climate change on water resources and plan for reductions in water supplies. Temperatures in the state are projected to increase by 5 – 7 degrees fahrenheit over the next 50 years, with the state becoming more arid and with more severe droughts. Our water resources will be diminished further by increasing demand and as much as a 25% reduction in runoff and recharge.

The Moth
Tuesday 5-6 PM
In honor of Valentine's Day, let The Moth whisper sweet somethings in your ear(buds). Stories of falling in love, enduring devotion, and romance that blooms in the most unlikely places—or between the most unlikely people. Hosted by Sarah Austin.

Tuesday Night Jazz
Tuesday 6-8 PM, Rebroadcast
Thursday 2-4 PM,
February is Black History Month, a time to highlight the close historical and cultural ties between Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement. The Buzzman will start the month by honoring Black women vocalists, including legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, and Dinah Washington.

Wednesday

Speak Up Las Cruces
Wednesday 8-10 AM
Wed 2-4 PM, Rebroadcast
8:00-8:30:
Cohosts Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman feature discussions with local leaders and experts on local affairs and community issues. They invite listeners to Speak Up by calling 575-526-5825.

8:30-9:00:
Local resident John Gilkison, a supporter of electric vehicles, wants restrictions on new city gas stations in Las Cruces. This interview is rescheduled after a miscommunication last week .

9:00-9:30:
Former PRC Commissioner and State Senator Steve Fischmann talks about a proposal to open the state’s energy markets up to greater competition.

9:30-10:00:
State Senator Jeff Steinborn, who is attending the current 60-day session in Santa Fe, will discuss bills that would restrict the storage of radioactive waste, require more disclosure from lobbyists, and establish a new fund for creative industries.

Radio Ecoshock
Wed 5-6 PM
The ocean acts like a giant air-conditioner, absorbing 90% of extra heat added by humans. What if it stops? Dr. Keith Moore will explain. From New Zealand, Dr. Kevin Trenberth reports more record ocean heating – levels not seen for over a million years. Is this powering weather extremes? Join host Alex Smith and find out.

Musical Celebrations
Wed 6-7 PM
Friday 9-10 AM, Rebroadcast
Host Walt Rubel celebrates Plutomania, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb.11 at the Museum of Nature and Science. (I’ve got your dwarf right here, Neil deGrasse Tyson!). Musical offerings will include songs by the B -52’s, Sammy Hagar and the Screamin’’ Cheetah Wheelies.

Monsoon Down the Radio
Wed 8-10 PM, Rebroadcast
Friday 5-7 PM
TATER'S PICKIN' AMERICANA, Show #255, starts in Mississippi and includes new music from Kevn Kinney who resides in Athens, GA.

Music They Don't Want You to Hear
Wed 10 PM-12 AM, Rebroadcast
Tuesday 6-8 PM
Ron Cooke celebrates that most important holiday, Groundhog Day, after which we visit elephants, Ordinary Elephants, a wonderful folk duo who will be performing in Las Cruces. I also indulge my sweet tooth - candy anyone?

Thursday

Special Programming
Thurs 9-10 AM, Rebroadcast
Sunday 5-6 PM
Afropop Worldwide Special: The Black History of the Banjo. Producer Ben Richmond traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own. Rhiannon Giddens, Bassekou Kouyate, Bela Fleck and more talk claw-hammers, trad jazz, Appalachian folk, African ancestors and the on-going story of American music, which would be woefully incomplete without a Black history of the banjo.

Reporter's Notebook
Thursday 5-6 PM, Rebroadcast
Tuesday 9-10 AM
New Mexico House Minority Floor Leader Ryan Lane, an attorney who represents San Juan County will talk with Damien Lewis about how he is approaching this year’s 60-day session of the New Mexico Legislature. Totaling $9.4 billion in recurring spending — an 11.9% increase from the last fiscal year — there is no shortage of ideas on how to best spend the money. Many lawmakers are pitching their ideas to address some of the state’s most pressing issues — education, public safety, early childhood development, bail reform, water conservation and energy, just to name a few.

Medium Rare
Thursday 10-11 PM
Brother B presents a tribute to bass players from the 70’s to today’s great players! Featured artists include Chris Squire, Mel Schacher (GFRR), Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Mark Egan, Eberhard Weber and Jaco Pastorius. In addition, he will play a truly “Medium Rare” tune from a long ‘out of print’ album that featured three of the greatest modern jazz bass players, all in the same band! You don’t want to miss hearing this top-notch presentation of bass playing supremacy!

Friday

Musical Celebrations
Friday 9-10 AM, Rebroadcast
Wed 6-7 PM
Host Walt Rubel, celebrates Plutomania, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb.11 at the Museum of Nature and Science. (I’ve got your dwarf right here, Neil deGrasse Tyson!). Musical offerings will include songs by the B -52’s, Sammy Hagar and the Screamin’’ Cheetah Wheelies.

Counterspin
Fri 12-12:30 PM, Rebroadcast
Sunday 11-11:30 AM
Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid. At the same time, shareholder payouts went up by $1.9 billion, increases that could have paid those households’ bills five times over. Stacy Holman, research fellow at the Energy and Policy Institute, and Shayla Harris, energy justice campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, illustrate how energy bills take up more and more of families’ earnings, and how the actions of corporations take a tough situation, make it worse, and then hand it off to their allies in the press corps, who will present it as “business as usual if regrettable.”

Cafe Con Leche
Friday 2-3 PM, Rebroadcast
Tuesday 8-9 AM
Greg Smith talks to artists who are featured in the Dona Ana Arts Galleries in February. Georjeanna Feltha’s show “Vindication, Restoration, and New Beginnings“ is up in the galleries most of February,
Derrick Lee whose jazz group will be performing in the Main Gallery on February 17 and Bob Diven who will be presenting “Confessions of an Editorial Cartoonist” in the Main Gallery on February 25.

Monsoon Down the Radio
Friday 5-7 PM
Wed 8-10 PM, Rebroadcast
Tater’s episode #256 is called COLUMBUS GHOST. He features all reggae and dub including dub poetry by Jamaica's Mutabaruka.

Saturday

The Audacity of Pop
Saturday 8-9 AM
Host Lorenzo Parra takes you on a pop tour that gets back on the road with "a million to one" from 1960 to "until I found you" in 2022, and good tunes in between, all proven to withstand time!

CHECK BACK NEXT WEEK!!!

Be on the Lookout for these QR Codes around Las Cruces

KTAL-LP has partnered up with the City of Las Cruces to highlight public artworks in the month of October. With funds from the Public Art Board, KTAL produced a series of short audio descriptions that highlight nine pieces of public art located throughout the city. Near each piece is a QR Code sign linked to the audio description online. To help find each one, the City has launched a scavenger hunt with a map and is offering prizes!
To join in, make sure to visit: https://www.las-cruces.org/1877/Public-Art.

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