Cheryl Snyder

Tune in at 7pm for “Netmail” by Brendan DuBois,as read by our host Ms. G. With the New Year comes a story from the past about how to survive being on the internet.

Celebrate our slithery reptile friends on their national day. Your radio host, John, will select the music while his dog, Gavin, charms the serpents. You are invited to tune in and join the fun from 8 – 10 am on 2/1/12.

KRNN congratulates this year’s Juneau Arts and Humanities Council’s “Mayor’s Awards for the Arts” recipients:

• Artist: Dan Hopson, musician, classical guitarist, and music teacher.

• Arts in Education: The Elementary Art Specialist team of Nancy Lehnhart and Mimi Walker Medenica.

• Business Leadership in the Arts: Alaskan Brewing Company.

• Innovative Application of the Arts: Lucid Reverie.

• Lifetime Achievement in the Arts: Guy “Buddy” Tabor, musician, singer/songwriter.

• Patron of the Arts: Bruce Simonson

• Volunteer for the Arts: Bing Carillo

Awards will be handed out at the Sunday Wearable Arts show at Centennial Hall on February 12, 2012. More Information.

Kate Burkhart, host of Tuesday “Tideline” and “Ambient Groove” has been selected as one of Alaska’s “Top 40 Under 40” by the Alaska Journal of Commerce. Way to go Kate!

Tune into the Alaska Identity Project on Thursday, January 26, 2012 as host Adrien Lopez interviews Larry Johansen (7 – 7:30 PM), author of “XTRATUF: An Alaskan Way of Life,” and soon to be published “Alexander Eighteen: The Story of Eighteen Wilderness Areas in Alaska.” Check out his work here and here.

In the second part of the show (7:30 – 8PM), Adrien will air a pre-recorded interview with Brian P. Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (and part Alaskan – graduate of Bartlett High School in Anchorage) for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. More on Brian P. Schmidt here.

Slovakian viola player Lukas Kmit was in the middle of performing at the Orthodox Synagogue in Presov, in Slovakia, when a cell phone in the audience began to ring. Kmit chose to use humor to diffuse an otherwise awkward moment.