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Episode 928

Jimmy: The Severe Re-Constructivist, Kinship Care, Working in Mental Health with Sarai Perguero, Field Notes: Flowers
University associate professor and author, Tim Z. Hernandez, visits the headstone in Fresno where most of the 1948 airplane crash victims were buried.

Airplane Crash from 1948 is Revisited and Researched

A professor and author is trying to find the families of all 32 victims.
Mission medical officer Eiman Jahangir enters the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars as mission communications officer and accessibility officer Sheri Wells-Jensen walks up to the habitat at Biosphere 2 in north Tucson on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Jahangir is a two-time NASA astronaut candidate finalist.

Four-person crew sealed into pressurized habitat to learn about space living

The crew will be locked in for six days.
The Bighorn Fire burns on Sunday, June 7, 2020 near Oro Valley, Arizona.

The Buzz: A wet winter brings increased wildfire danger

Experts give a fire outlook and talk about recovery.
Brown dog tick.

Episode 363: Checking for ticks in Arizona

Cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever are on the rise in Arizona.

Field Notes: Flowers

David Fenster visits Picacho Peak State Park to see this year’s superbloom. But he didn’t always like flowers.
Deborah Miller (right) appraises a schoolgirl needlework, ca. 1740, in Shelburne, VT.

Antiques Roadshow : Shelburne Museum, Hour 2

MONDAY at 8
Supporters of the effort to recall Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby gather petitions to get the recall on the ballot. April 2023

Crosby recall efforts race to the finish line

Volunteers are hoping to get enough signatures to force a recall vote in Cochise County by the deadline next week.
The stinknet weed (Oncosiphon pilulifer), seen here with a key for scale, was being traded as Globe chamomile before being renamed. Scientists say it is an invasive plant in our region.

Why this wildflower is worrying naturalists in Arizona.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Martha Retallick on her "City Nature"; German fellow visits the AZPM Studio; and, a look into a Dolly Parton themed dance party.

Jimmy: The Severe Re-Constructivist

Jimmy Descant is known among artists as a severe re-constructivist who works in a style he calls ‘Western Futurism.”
Bob Nilson, the Tourism Supervisor at the Benson Visitor’s Center, shows off the train simulator, which is a fan favorite at the visitor's center.

Benson Visitor Center certified as an Autism Center

The location is the first in Cochise County.
A set of four tubes known as the "river outlet works" allows extra water to flow through the Glen Canyon Dam. The flows are designed to take advantage of extra wet years and help wildlife habitat downstream of the dam.

An extra pulse of water is flowing into Grand Canyon after a wet winter

This experiment is the first since 2018 and comes in response to forecasts for an above-average spring snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains.

Iconic America

Iconic America
A woman and child embrace along the border in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora where migrants seeking asylum formed an encampment along the sidewalk as they waited to make formal requests with U.S. Customs officers at the San Luis Port of Entry in December 2018.

Sinema, Southern Arizona mayors and county officials discuss impact of immigration on border communities.

The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee comes weeks before Title 42 expires.
Emilia Schüle (Marie Antoinette), Louis Cunningham (Louis)

Marie Antoinette: The Ostrich

SUNDAY at 10
Solly McLeod as Tom Jones

Masterpiece: Tom Jones PREMIERE

SUNDAY at 9

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