True West and American Pop with Kai Ryssdal
Marketplace Morning Report host Kai Ryssdal presents two RadioExtra programs: True West, about new ideas and current issues in the American West and what it means to live in the West today; and American Pop, a celebration of American popular culture.
August 15—True West: Listen
True West is a program in development at MPR's Marketplace Productions, to be hosted by author Sara Davidson. Davidson joins Ryssdal in the studio for an hour that features:
• Cowboy musician Tom Russell singing a Western song infused with the spirit of a Morrocan proverb
• Journalist Jessica Seigel's attitude adjustment after this born-and-bred New Yorker spends a week at a Wyoming dude ranch
• An interview with Native American author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie about angry Indians and poetry
• San Francisco through the eye of an artist/bohemian/radio producer after the dot-com bust
• Tourists looking to find the Old West in contemporary Santa Fe, New Mexico
• A visit to Josie's, a "nouvelle western" restaurant in Los Angeles, and a conversation with chef-owner Josie Le Balch about game that doesn't taste like your father's dead deer pulled off his pickup truck
• A conversation about the role of film in shaping the image of the West
August 16—American Pop: Listen
American Pop is also in development at MPR's Marketplace Productions. This show, to be hosted by Michelle Philippe, features a lively range of interviews and produced segments including:
• Pop Toppers, A short review of newsy pop-culture updates
• A conversation with author, filmmaker, and provocateur Michael Moore about how he pokes powerful people in the eyes and still get his next project funded
• An essay by Playboy contributor Tina King, about distractions at the movie theater
• In the spirit of High Fidelity author Nick Hornby, we turn to well-known figures for their top-five favorites
• Three head writers from the AV Club, the arts section of the cheeky Web site The Onion, peel away the layers of their least-favorite job requirement: going on Hollywood media junkets
• An essay by writer Ayun Halliday, a contributor to Bust and Hip Mama magazines and NPR, about how to pull off a great escape with two kids in tow
• Youth radio contributor Erica Soloman takes us to the place where cliques go to die, the P.C. gaming room.
• Music critic Michael Azerrad gives us his picks of the must-have CDs of the summer of 2002.
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