Dark Side of the Moon

  • March 12, 2025
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NASA Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins with all the 411 on this week's moon eclipse. More Legislative Reflux with the League of Women Voters of Utah. Voices Amplified takes to the slopes. Poets and Songs Scored by the Shorelines. Plus, justice reform nonprofits stepping up.

Tonight's show features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community:

League of Women Voters of Utah's Kathy Biele returns for a legislative recap.

  • Mar. 13: League of Women Voters of Utah Legislative Wrap-Up, 6:00-7:30 p.m. online. "The 2025 Utah Legislative Session has wrapped. The League identified key bills, and our Legislative Action Corps played a crucial role in observing committee meetings, providing testimony, and making our concerns heard. Join us as we review the session's highlights and lowlights with our Legislative Action Corps members: Lori Jones on Natural Resources, Helen Moser on Voting, Cindy Phillips on Education, and Linda Smith on Judiciary. This event is open to the public, so feel free to invite friends and neighbors. Register now! LINK TO REGISTER. Do you have a question? We would like to speak to bills of interest to you. Please use this link to submit questions prior to the event. Questions may also be submitted in the meeting."

Voices Amplified: Women & Sports in Utah. Rising journalist Oliver Lane introduces us to Maddie Kaiserman, who skis for the Utes.

NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins on this week's Total Eclipse of the Moon. Wiggins says the celestial event will start at about 10:00 p.m. Thursday evening, and totality will peak at 12:59 and end at 1:32 Friday morning as the Moon begins to leave Earth’s shadow. 

Poets Nan Seymour and Mica Vainwwright and Making Waves Artist Collaborative's Sav Pearson stop by to preview the annual reading of a communal praise poem for the Great Salt Lake.

  • March 22: Songs Scored by Shorelines, the Irreplaceable Poetry Reading 2025, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at Antelope Island State Park, Buffalo Point. Event by River Writing: "Everyone is welcome! ASL Interpretation provided by Drake Heap and Francescia Paxton. ADA Accessible. Free with registration. Join us for our 4th annual reading of irreplaceable, an ever-flowing collective praise poem devoted to Great Salt Lake. The poem is a prayer for the full restoration of the lake and an homage to all the species she sustains. Our words will be offered directly to Great Salt Lake as a show of love and devotion. Readers & Singers: Darren Parry, Carl Moore, Ashley Findlay, Liz Weight, Cael Crosby, Carson Tueller, Sophia Cutrubus, Rebecca Brenner, Josh Craner & 6th grade students
Arya Roberson, Rory Scholle-Moore, Mae Pilstl, & Elle Moore, Franque Bains, Jasmine Hennigs-Cornell, Ben Abbott, mica vainright, Katie Boué, Poet Laureate of Helper, Utah, Olivia Dudding-Rodriguez, Eva López Chávez, Mickaela Allison-Aliifua, Yara Ghabayen, Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore."

    Lake-facing art on display: Engage with cyanotype waves designed by many community members along the watershed with loving direction from Making Waves artist Sarah May. Get to know some Great Salt Lake species by spending time with illustrated flags by artist Kellie Bornhoft's collection, By A Thread.

    Transportation: Register here for $3 bus ride (includes park entry) on a chartered bus departing at 12:00 pm from the North Temple Trax Station in SLC. If you come in your own vehicle, the state park fee ($15 per vehicle) will apply. Plan for extra travel time! Dress in warm layers for outside. You may wish to bring a blanket. 

With nonprofits working to help those re-entering society, RadioACTive talks justice reform with Channae Haller of Justice By Objectives and Destiny Garcia of Clean Slate Utah.

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Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

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