Charlie Parr reflects on community, hard work, friendship, and the stories behind his latest album, Rooming House.

This week on Past and Present, Jay Price reflects on a recent presidential event in Wichita.

Dark shoegaze outfit Bizou returns with powerful new EP, Widow.

Danish quintet Lowly returns with a new self-produced album that touches on personal themes.

Beth Golay visits with author August Lamm about her book, "You Don't Need a Smartphone."

Just in time for the spoookiest day of the year (Election Day), we take a look at the ways politicians talk to us and try to win us to their side. We look at axiology in language, antithesis, epistrophe, deixis, and chiasmus, among other devices.

We hear about Mexican restaurants changing locations and and an update about an owner detained by ICE from Denise Neil in this week's Dining with Denise.

Maren and Charlotte Wallevik fell in love with American music while growing up in Norway. Now, American music audiences are falling in love with them.

Fletcher Powell looks at a new movie about our favorite movie city.

The greatest ghost story ever told may be one of the first ever published. The Castle of Otranto doesn’t get everything right but those familiar tropes - the ghostly moan or creepy footsteps – are all there. Katie Lanning tells us how Horace Walpole created a new genre on today’s Why Should I Read This?

The Frostbite Regatta has attracted hundreds of rowing clubs to Wichita since its start in 1992. The competition is hosted by the Wichita Rowing Association and takes place on the first Sunday in November. KMUW's Lu Anne Stephens was there this year and has this Wichita Soundscape.

It's not easy keeping track of everything. But some lost items create more trauma than others.