This Week on A Patchwork Quilt
Host Kevin Vance's live music guests will be Labor festival singer Jack Chernos as well as Claudia Russell and members of her band The Folk Unlimited Orchestra. Saturday, July 26 from 5-6:30pm

Stay Engaged with What's Happening at KALW

Dear Listener:   These are exciting times at your local public radio station.   On the air, KALW News is poised to launch Crosscurrents, the daily local news magazine that debuts on August 4th.  The show will provide a high-profile platform for creative, in-depth public interest reporting from the KALW News team and will also open the door for listeners to have greater input in the newsmaking process.  Read all about it in the latest KALW program guide, which you can download here.   Behind the scenes, we’re in the midst of the first expansion of our studios since KALW moved to the campus of Burton High School in 1996.  In the coming months, we’ll be creating a space where we can produce more local programming, and where small groups of students from Burton High can learn from and collaborate with KALW staff.    We’ve also expanded the ways you can listen to KALW programming.  All of our local public affairs and listener call-in programs – including Book Talk, Work With Marty Nemko, Your Legal Rights and Minds Over Matter – are now available as podcasts.  And we’ve added an MP3 stream, allowing you to listen to KALW worldwide in the most universal audio format.   Finally, we’re still feeling a sense of uplift from the remarkable response of so many listeners to our recent call to help us make up the shortfall from our spring membership drive.  We were incredibly heartened, not just because the contributions we received means we ended our fiscal year in the black, but because it demonstrated how our listeners step up when we make a direct request for your support.   So, I’m going to make one more direct request:  Please click here to open up a page that gives you several options for greater involvement with KALW.  Whether it’s becoming a member, volunteering for our September membership drive, offering your professional services, or simply signing up for our e-mail newsletter, consider taking a step to increase your engagement with the station.   However you choose to be involved with KALW, we thank you.  You make all our work possible and meaningful.   Sincerely, Matt Martin General Manager matt@kalw.org

Critical perspectives on the week's news on Fridays at 5

LEFT, RIGHT, & CENTER Fridays at 5:00pm Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, this weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality.  This "love-hate relationship of the air" features four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere: Tony Blankley, Robert Scheer, Arianna Huffington, & Matt Miller. COUNTERSPIN Fridays at 5:30pm CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial.  Hosted and produced by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart, and presented by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting).