Rocket Radio

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee was released this summer on July 14. The book is a very early edition of To Kill a Mockingbird and the first book from Harper Lee in over 50 years. This show includes an article from The New York Times on the history behind Go Set a Watchman and Harper Lee's relationship with her editor. This show also includes an exerpt from the first chapter of Go Set a Watchman which was released in the Wall Street Journal on July 10. This show also features an interesting version of This Is Gospel by Panic! At the Disco (thanks to Blaine), an interesting song by Les ShrimpS, and the Main Title song from the To Kill a Mockinbird movie.

Canada: home to maple syrup, hockey, and Leo Holton. Leo is 15 and lives in Ottowa, Ontario. In this show he talks about life in Canada, Canadian geography, and why Canadians are so nice. He also plays one half of a piano duet! Leo and I met during a chance encounter in Montpelier, Vermont and met up a few days later in Montreal, Quebec during the 2015 IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) conference. This show also includes music from Canadian bands Simple Plan (from Montreal) and Sum 41 (from Ajax, Ontario). In other news the APMAs (Alternative Press Music Awards) were July 22. A video of the full show is available here.

School is OUT! Congratulations to all gratuating seniors! For those of us stuck in Davis for a few more years there are a lot of things going on this summer! Acme Theatre Company is hosting a summer writing program called The Food & Fairy Tales Project in which participants will create a collection of fairy tales the company will perform next season! This event is a collaboration with playwright Brian Oglesby. Going to movies is also an easy way to get out of the house in summer. Spy and Jurassic World are just the start of this summer's new releases. In Spy Melissa McCarthy plays a CIA agent who has spent her whole career behind a desk but goes into the field in her first undercover mission. In Jurassic World, the latest installment in the Jurassic park series, seeing animals that were once extinct walk around as they had millions of years ago has become commonplace.

Auditions for Acme's summer show, Argonautika, are this week! This show features Penelope, a riddle, some jokes, why cats are "bad", talk of scary movies, a Shel Silverstein poem, and bad analogies!