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The final guest speaker in KLRU's "Spark" Engaging Speaker Series is novelist Anne Lamott, whose brutally honest but altogether hilarious stories are rooted in heavy and sometimes dark themes, like alcoholism, faith, and Republicanism.

Apply below for your chance to score a pair of tickets to tomorrow's Spark lecture: Update: Congrats, RT! [Official Site and Tickets] KLRU's Spark 2007 Engaging Speaker Series with Douglas Rushkoff Wednesday, April 17th The Paramount Theatre 7:30pm...

The penultimate speaker in KLRU's 2007 Spark Series is the ever-fascinating Douglas Rushkoff, a hugely prolific author, teacher, and documentarian who's written extensively on new media, pop culture, religion, and technology as it pertains to society in general. Rushkoff first exposed the world to the emerging cyberculture phenomenon with his 1994 book, Cyberia, and has since published at least ten best-selling books, including Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism (2003) and Media Virus: Hidden...

The 2007 KLRU Spark Series returns tomorrow night, focusing its attention on global warming. Two leading figures on climate issues, Dr. Tim Flannery (The Weather Makers) and Elizabeth Kolbert ("The Climate of Man"), will discuss the causes and impacts of global warming. Enter below for your chance to score a pair of tickets to tomorrow's lecture series: Congrats, Cari! [KLRU Spark Series] KLRU Spark Series 07 with Tim Flannery, Elizabeth Kolbert Tuesday, March 20th...

Those who grew up with NPR as auxiliary parent will doubtless recognize the names Maria Hinojosa and Ray Suarez, the honored guests at Spark: KLRU's Engaging Speaker Series this Wednesday. (So, do their pictures match your mental conception of how they'd look? 'Cuz the first time we saw a pic of Terry Gross, we flipped out.) Hinojosa, the anchor of NPR's Latino USA, is also most recently the author of a memoir of Mexican-American...