This week Fred and Jeff talk with  Shirlee Bertolini, the “Grande Dame” of the Arizona Band, from the  University of Arizona Twirling Team!  Plus…

There were brats!!!  Tom Hogan and Ronnie Reyne from Oktoberfest was in studio with a big pan of those tasty German treats, talking about the big event beginning this Thursday at Hi Corbett Field!!!

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What a wild program ~ all sorts of guests and information coming your way from the Big Show!!!

Fred and Jeff have been talking about a special screening of “The Goonies” at The Loft Cinema this Saturday, September 24th.  All the proceeds benefit cancer care and treatment and Jeff Cohen (the guy who played “Chunk”) will be there too!  Friend of the Show, Mr. Mocos (buy his music!!!), also known as Jim Gyro, is waging a battle for his life against cancer and this is going out for him!  We love our listeners and hope you guys will go out to see a great movie, have a lot of fun and help our friend and a great guy!!!

Also this Saturday The family friendly Arizona Insect Festival and the First 2011 Mesquite Milling events take place.  Click on the links to get all the information about bugs and pods!!!

Tony Penn from the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona was in studio to talk about the United Way Pep Rally ~ 2011-2012 Campaign and Days of Caring Kick-Off.  Listen to all the success and progress Tony has created over the last 14 months, as well as the details of this free event on September 28th.

Finally ~ WOW ~ Gene Zonge from the Community Gardens of Tucson talks about…wait for it…neighborhood gardens in our community!!!

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Fred and Jeff sit down with László Veres, Conductor and Music Director of the Tucson Pops Orchestra and the Arizona Symphonic Winds.

Since 1955, the Tucson Pops Orchestra has been sharing the joy of live music with audiences of all ages throughout Southern Arizona.  Founded by violinist Georges DeMeester and his collaborator Ernest Hoffman, this dedicated group of professional musicians first performed in various hotels throughout Tucson.  The “Pops” today performs at the renovated “DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center” named after the beloved founder of the Orchestra.

The Arizona Symphonic Winds is Southern Arizona’s Premiere community concert band. Comprised of 65 volunteers, this musical organization presents concerts throughout the Tucson area and has been doing so for 20 years. Included in its repertoire are Broadway show tunes, orchestral transcriptions, movie themes, marches, and traditional band literature.

We encourage our listeners to make a donation here to the Tucson Pops Orchestra!!!

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This week Fred and Jeff hang out with Joaquin Ruiz, Dean of the University of Arizona College of Science!

This is a wonderful discussion covering…

Geotourism ~ an effort spearheaded by the College of Science to promote the region we live in as an extraordinary place of biodiversity and a number of “wonders of the world” that cannot be found anywhere else.

Sense of Place ~ a component of Geotourism consisting of ad hoc trips upMt.Lemmonlooking at the diversity of the ecology and plant life while climbing up the mountain.  Did you know…there are 3,000 plant species on Mt. Lemmon, while there are only 5,000 plant species in the entire continental United Stateseast of the Mississippi?

Downtown Science ~ a new science museum being planned for the Rialto Block downtown.  TheCollegeofScienceis providing the content and the first show will focus on our excellence in planetary sciences and will be called Mars and Beyond.

College of Science Lecture Series~ this series began 7 years ago.  They are held at Centennial Hall on 6-7 consecutive Tuesdays in the spring.  They are a huge attraction and it’s clear there’s a big audience in the community who cares about science.  This years’ theme is “Living to 100.”  It is going to cover aging, ethics in medicine, robotics, etc.

Wow ~ what a HUGE show!!!

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Fred and Jeff talk with local writer Elena Díaz Bjorkquist and Rosi Andrade from Sowing the Seeds!!!

Sowing the Seeds is a collective of women writers, founded in 2000 to promote the humanities in our community. In the beginning they were sponsored by the Southwest Institute of Research on Women at the University of Arizona to receive grant funds from the Arizona Humanities Council and the Stocker Foundation, but have been self sufficient since 2001. Besides their meetings to share and critique their members’ writing, they also sponsor quality writing workshops and conferences with known guest facilitators and presenters!!!

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Fred and Jeff talk with Academy Award nominated director Roko Belic about his movie HAPPY!!!

Does money make you happy? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution?

Roko Belic, director of the Academy Award® nominated “Genghis Blues” now brings us HAPPY, a film that sets out to answer these questions and more. Taking us from the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia, from the beaches of Brazil to the villages of Okinawa, HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion.

HAPPY is showing at The Loft Cinema beginning this Friday, and Roko will be watching the movie with us with a Q & A following on Saturday and Sunday, August 27th and 28th!!!

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Former City Manager Joel Valdez touring Tucson, circa 1978.  You may also choose to play it on your own media player or download it.  It is a big (183+mb) file though so streaming and playing it here on our site might be easiest.

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Fred and Jeff talk with Vivian VanPeenen, Curator of Education at Tucson’s own Reid Park Zoo.  There’re all sorts of things going on at our world famous zoo, from new cats to an entire herd of pachyderm, and you’ll hear it all on The Fred and Jeff Show!!!

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This week, while Jeff is on vacation, Fred is joined by friend-of-the-show, program web master and all around good guy George Jenson.

Fred and George talk with Dr. Sydney Rice and Professor Jennifer Casteix about a brand new grant awarded to the Steele Children’s Research Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.  The Interdisciplinary Leadership Education Excellence in Caring for Children with Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) is a grant program that trains professionals to improve the health status of infants, children and adolescents with or at risk for, neurodevelopmental and related disabilities.  The program in Arizona will be called “AZLEND.”

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This week Fred and Jeff welcome Matt Goode to the big show! Matt is a Research Specialist at the University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment. He talks about these amazing creatures living all around our community.

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