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Once a year, we open the floor to you at KPAC and invite musicians both amateur and professional to share their love of new music and performance at our contemporary classical Open Mic Night. Now in its 9th year, this collaboration with SOLI Chamber Ensemble continues to surprise and delight. Hear the performances at the link.

Where did the first people to populate the Americas come from? Dr. David Bowles walks us across the Bering Land Bridge with the first to set foot on the North and South American continents. They beat out Christopher Columbus by thousands of years. Bowles also reads one of his numerous translations of verse in Nahuatl.

In this episode of Momentos Musicales, TPR's James Baker listens to the mambo, popularized by Pérez Prado and incorporated by Leonard Bernstein into West Side Story.

Focusing on the rising costs of groceries and gas, and promising new investigations of President Biden's administration, Republicans won a slim majority in the House in the midterm elections.

On Sunday, the selection committee set the field for the annual descent into March Madness. The four No. 1 seeds are defending champion Villanova, North Carolina, Kansas and Gonzaga.

The board of regents voted to leave the Sun Belt Conference for competition in the Pac-12, beginning in the 2026-27 season. The University of Texas is coming off its first year competing in the Southeastern Conference after leaving the Big 12.

The majority rules. That’s the basic tenet of how a democracy should work. But today in America are we living with minority rule with the will of the majority being ignored? There’s Voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, dirty tricks and the take over the supreme court. Is it all connected to white supremacy?

Electricity costs have risen 5.5% in the past year, nearly double the national inflation rate. And they are projected to continue to climb. According to a new study, one driver of higher power bills is how the public is subsidizing the energy bills of some of the largest Tech companies in the world. Meanwhile cheap renewable energy (like solar and wind) is being outlawed by the Trump administration.

He dreamed up Conan the Barbarian from his lonely town of Cross Plains, Texas. But where did Robert E. Howard find his inspiration for the sword-and- sorcery, weird tales that still resonate today? Howard dipped his pen in the inkwell of Texas history, tall tales and the boom and bust of the oil fields. How Conan is really a Texan.

Mayor Ron Nirenberg is gearing up to serve his third term as San Antonio’s mayor. What are his priorities and goals for the coming years?