Newest Public Service Messages

The newest public service announcements airing at YOUR Community Radio, KXCI.

OUTDOOR FREE FILMS: Tucson’s outdoor free film series is now called The Loft at Cinema La Placita. Classic films show Thursdays at 7:30pm at La Placita Village, at the corner of Broadway and Church. Charlton Heston stars in “The Omega Man” on May 15th. Enjoy Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as “The Odd Couple” on May 22nd. On May 29th, Burt Lancaster stars as “Elmer Gantry.” The films are free, donations are welcome. Learn more at http://www.loftcinema.com/.

POISON: 89% of all poisonings occur in the home. Most poisonings involve everyday household items like cleaning supplies, medicines, and personal care items. Don’t be a statistic. Call the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center at 1-800-222-1222. If you think someone in your home has been poisoned, call the center immediately at 1-800-222-1222 for help. They’re open 24/7. This public service announcement is from the U of A College of Pharmacy.

YOUTH VOLUNTEERS: Youth can bring about change in our community. The Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona’s Youth Volunteer Corps provides the outlets for that change. Their weeklong summer programs kick off on May 26th, with projects like animal rescues, biking with BICAS, home repair for elderly and disabled Tucsonans, fighting global warming, rainwater harvesting, local farming, and much, much more. Learn more by calling 881-3300.

IRAQ AID 2008: The Iraq Aid 2008 concert is Saturday, May 24th at The Hut on Fourth Avenue. Proceeds benefit three non-profits: Doctors Without Borders, Disabled American Veterans, and the Red Cross. Performers at Iraq Aid 2008 include Al Perry, Michael P. Nordberg, American Android, Planet Jam, Cosmic Slop, 8 Minutes To Burn and The Gallery. Doors open at 7pm. Learn more about this benefit concert for the war’s victims at http://www.iraqaid2008.org/.

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Happy Birthday Billy Joel / One Cup of Java Challenge

Friday's week-ending One Cup question: Rock and roll hall of famer Billy Joel is celebrating his 59th birthday today. Never a critical favorite, he’s nevertheless managed to sell 80 million albums, becoming the third best selling solo act in American history behind Elvis & Garth Brooks. Even with all those albums rolling out of stores, he’s only had three #1 songs on the Billboard pop charts. Your One Cup question this morning, with three possible winners: name a #1 Billy Joel song. One clue: all three were in the 1980s.

Answer: It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me ('80), Tell Her About It ('83); We Didn’t Start The Fire ('89).

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Thursday's One Cup Of Java Challenge

Thursday's One Cup of Java Challenge: Today is the day set aside around the world to celebrate the work and accomplishments of the organization that is believed to have the largest number of volunteers in the world. They’ve got 97 million volunteers. Your One Cup of Java Challenge this morning: name this organization operating in 187 countries.

Answer: It’s World Red Cross and Red Crescent Date!

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Ruthie Foster Folk Festival Broadcast

This past weekend, folk-blues musician Ruthie Foster gave a masterful performance at the Tucson Folk Festival.

That performance should have aired that night on KXCI, but we messed up.

The good news: Ruthie Foster’s entire set will air THIS Sunday at 6pm as a special Mother’s Day treat for our audience. The music starts at 6:00 with some festival performances you may have missed, and then moves to Ruthie’s entire 90 minute set, including all of the encores.

Join us for Ruthie Foster’s Folk Festival performance, this Sunday from 6 to 8pm, only on KXCI 91.3FM.

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Wednesday's One Cup of Java Challenge

Wednesday's One Cup of Java Challenge: On this date in 1977, The Eagles reached #1 on the album charts with Hotel California, a release that would go on to become their best selling regular album. Although the title track for Hotel California clearly delves into a metaphor – a metaphor for what being open to interpretation – the actual album cover pictures a real hotel in California. Your One Cup of Java Challenge this morning – name the real hotel photographed for the cover of Hotel California.

Answer: The Beverly Hills Hotel – it was shot from a 60 foot high cherry picker to get the angle overlooking the trees. The album cover is pictured above; a shot from the front of "The Pink Palace" is shown below.

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Tuesday's One Cup of Java Challenge

Tuesday's One Cup of Java Challenge: Solomon Burke’s biggest hit on the pop charts came in 1965 when his song “Got To Get You Off Of My Mind” (released on this date in 1965) hit #22 on the charts. While the lyrics to the song clearly reflect a romance gone wrong, according to Solomon Burke, the song is actually about another famous soul singer that he was trying to get out of his mind. Your One Cup question this morning – what other famous soul singer was Solomon Burke thinking about when he wrote “Got To Get You Off Of My Mind?” One clue: Solomon wrote the song in 1964 on the way to that other singer’s funeral.

Answer: Sam Cooke.

"I was in Los Angeles with Sam Cooke the night he was shot. We were out at that club together... Later that night at my hotel, my friend calls me and tells me Sam's been shot. I thought he was joking. 'Sam wasn't shot, man. I just left him.' It was no joke. Sam's death was devastating. He meant so much to me. He meant a lot to all of us. He represented the next level for us. He opened doors that haven't been stepped through since. He was gonna be the next Nat Cole. He was a dear friend, and now he was gone. I had to get on the train to get on a plane to get back to Sam's funeral in Chicago. I had no sleep and I couldn't get Sam off my mind. There's the song. I wrote 'Got To Get You Off My Mind' to get Sam Cooke off my mind." - Solomon Burke, from SamCookeFanClub.com.

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Strategic Plan Comments

What does Community Radio mean to you and what should our priorities be for the future?

Please leave your comments below.

~ KXCI Strategic Planning Committee

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KXCI presents Kathleen Edwards May 13th

Concert preview by Scott Denton (Monday Music Mix)

KXCI is sponsoring Canadian songwriter Kathleen Edwards’s return to Tucson after nearly a three-year absence—she last played Plush in June, 2005. Prior to that performance I had appreciated her first two studio albums, Failer (2003) and Back to Me (2005), but wasn’t in love. But I fell hard for the live show’s display of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-style, no-nonsense authenticity. Small wonder, that the first album Edwards owned was a Tom Petty record. It must have blown her mind to have the Heartbreakers’ keyboard player, Benmont Tench, playing on her second album.

Her touring band—including her husband, guitarist/producer Colin Cripps—provided a soulful, classic American rock platform for her down-to-earth charm. I was sold when she spontaneously jumped off the stage, without missing a lick of her rhythm-guitar playing, to dance with an inebriated fan who had been creating a bit of a distraction throughout the set.

She is touring in support of her most recent album, Asking for Flowers, on Zoë. On this album she is again accompanied by Cripps and Jim Bryson from her touring band as well as Tench and fellow studio musicians Greg Leisz and Don Heffington.

This is also the first record on which her song narratives venture beyond the autobiographical. “Alicia Ross,” for example, draws from a true account of a Canadian teenager’s murder and its effect on the girl’s mother.

Her performance at Club Congress will be an early show, learn more at http://www.hotelcongress.com/club/.

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Nortec Collective free download for Cinco de Mayo

To help celebrate Cinco de Mayo, KXCI and Nacional Records are giving away a download from the new Nortec Collective album.
Nortec Collective presents Bostich+Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine, is also this weeks Global Express on Your Morning Brew.
Here's the download link again, happy Cinco de Mayo!

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The Loft at Cinema La Placita

Tucson’s outdoor free film series has a new name: The Loft at Cinema La Placita.

Classic films show Thursday nights at 7:30 at La Placita Village, at the corner of Broadway and Church.

See Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in “Bringing Up Baby,” on May 8th; Charlton Heston in “The Omega Man” on May 15th; and Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as “The Odd Couple” on May 22nd.

Admission is free, donations are welcome. Learn more at http://www.loftcinema.com/cinemalaplacita.

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Thursday's One Cup Of Java Challenge

Thursday's One Cup of Java Challenge: With the film Iron Man opening this weekend, our One Cup question tackles the Forbes Fictional 15, a listing of the wealthiest fictional characters. Iron Man, aka billionaire Tony Stark, only placed 10th on the Forbes list this time. Your One Cup question – with an estimated $28.8 billion fictional dollars, what fictional character became the first non-mammal to top the Forbes list this year?

Answer: Scrooge McDuck

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