Radio Cals

On today's episode of Radio CALS, Matt DeCample interviews Korto Momolu, Little Rock-based fashion designer, about her childhood in Liberia, emigrating to Canada, discovering her talent for art and design, and her life since moving to Little Rock and appearing on Project Runway.

On today's broadcast of Radio CALS, Rex Nelson and Paul Austin chew the fat about their epic trip to Piggott to participate in a quail hunt and dinner with the grandson of Ernest Hemingway and the granddaughter of Hemingway's legendary editor, Max Perkins, who hunted there in 1932 while Hemingway was married to Pauline Pfeiffer.

On today's broadcast of Radio CALS, UALR Institute on Race and Ethnicity Director John Kirk has a conversation with Joyce Williams, a retired public school educator, principal and consultant, who was one of the first of four black teachers to desegregate teaching faculty in the Little Rock School District in 1964.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features another episode of Chewing the Fat with Rex Nelson and Paul Austin. This week, Rex and Paul chew the fat about holiday cooking, Paul's specialities, Rex's love of mincemeat pie, biscuits and country ham, Paul's problems with rodents, eggnog, oyster loaf and Richard Allin, the old Des Arc fish market, fiddlers, the Emerson Purple-hull Pea Festival, Mississippi roast, Gillette and Slovak festivals coming up, how a heated throw changed Paul's life, memories of Bibles, the King James Version, sword drills, the OBU-Henderson State rivalry, the Church of Shakespeare, Newton County, what's going on in the hills of Arkansas, how Pocahontas used to be wet, and the need to get to Bytheville and eat some barbecue.

This week on Radio CALS, host John Miller is joined in the studio by John Cain for the debut segment of Primary Sources: Arkansas Sounds Interviews. John Cain is a community organizer and Program Director of Little Rock's 100,000 watt community radio station KABF 88.3 FM. Not only did Cain help lay the groundwork for what would become KABF back in 1977, but his involvement with Jazz on a musical and cultural level dates back 66 years promoting shows, heritage and Black History. During this time he's worked throughout the southeast to preserve Jazz as America's original art form in cities like Birmingham, Atlanta and throughout Arkansas. Here in Little Rock, Cain spearheaded the movement to preserve the Mosaic Templars' African American Cultural Center's building back in 1992.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features another episode of Chewing the Fat with Rex Nelson and Paul Austin. This week, Rex and Paul chew the fat about their first year of Chewing the Fat, the NEA basketball tournament and small-town basketball fans, hill school teams versus Delta teams, tamales, how Paul broke a kid's arm and Paul's mother ran over the same family's dog on the same day, record-setting basketball performances, Cave City, squirrel dinners at Gene's Barbecue in Brinkley, Tommy Robinson, and having a pretty good Arkansas day.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a conversation with Alan Leveritt, Publisher and Co-founder of the Arkansas Times, about his life and work.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a conversation with Little Rock Catholic High School Principal Steve Straessle; letters from the Butler Center Collections; Bizarre Arkansas; a special episode of Chewing the Fat; and more.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a conversation with Little Rock Catholic High School Principal Steve Straessle; Carol-Ann Blow discusses her personal experience with desegregation in Little Rock at Mount St. Mary Academy; Bizarre Arkansas; a new episode of Chewing the Fat; and more.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a conversation with 2016 Olympic gold medalist long jumper and North Little Rock native, Jeff Henderson; noted historian Mark Christ discusses Civil War Arkansas; Freeman McKindra; Bizarre Arkansas; a new episode of Chewing the Fat; and more.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a conversation with 2016 Olympic gold medalist long jumper and North Little Rock native, Jeff Henderson; Ryan Harris and Maxwell George discuss the history of _Oxford American Magazine_ and the release of the 2016 music issue, "Visions of the Blues"; Relics of Arkansas History; a new episode of Chewing the Fat; and more.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with Marianna native and retired Court of Appeals Justice, Olly Neal, Jr.; author Nancy Hendricks discusses her book, Notable Women of Arkansas; a new episode of Chewing the Fat; and more.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with Marianna native and retired Court of Appeals Justice, Olly Neal, Jr.; one soldier's recollections of the Korean War; a discussion of women in colonial Arkansas; and a new episode of Chewing the Fat.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with former Arkansas Speaker of the House and current Executive Director of Arkansas Community Colleges, Bill Stovall; a discussion of women in colonial Arkansas; Relics of Arkansas History; and a new episode of Chewing the Fat.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with former Arkansas Speaker of the House and current Executive Director of Arkansas Community Colleges, Bill Stovall; a discussion of women in colonial Arkansas; and a new episode of Chewing the Fat.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with Sidney Moncrief, Little Rock native and basketball star; Bizarre Arkansas; Relics of Arkansas History; two sisters talk about growing up in El Dorado; and a new episode of Chewing the Fat.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with Sidney Moncrief, Little Rock native and basketball star; two episodes of Bizarre Arkansas; the Beatles visit Arkansas; and a new episode of Chewing the Fat.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a Primary Sources podcast interview with Vivienne "Lie" Schiffer, a historian of the Japanese-American experience at the Rohwer internment camp during WWII; a discussion of the women's suffrage movement by historian Bernadette Cahill; and a new episode of Chewing the Fat.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a new Primary Sources podcast interview with Vivienne "Lie" Schiffer, a historian of the Japanese-American experience at the Rohwer internment camp during WWII; an interview with Korean War veteran, Corporal James Blaylock; new episodes of Bizarre Arkansas and Chewing the Fat; and more.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a new Primary Sources podcast interview with Dr. John Kirk, an interview with Korean War veteran, Corporal James Blaylock; new episodes of Bizarre Arkansas and Chewing the Fat; and more.