September 21st, 2009

Join KLRU in the studio for a Texas Monthly Talks taping with political analyst and columnist EJ Dionne. Evan Smith talks politics with Dionne at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, September 24. Doors open at 4 p.m.
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August 14th, 2009

Join us in the studio for a Texas Monthly Talks taping with Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. Evan Smith talks football with Leach at 1 p.m. on Monday, August 24. Doors open at 12:30 p.m.RSVP here

July 29th, 2009

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, July 30
Get Evan Smith’s introduction on the Cronkite page of Texas Monthly Talks’ Web site

An encore of a 2006 episode featuring the legendary newsman repeats Thursday on KLRU or watch it now.

Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

June 11th, 2009

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, June 11
Also airs: Sunday, June 14, at 12:30 p.m.
Watch episodes online at klru.org/texasmonthlytalks or klru.tv

Legal Journalist Jeffrey Toobin from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

Sometimes you plan, and sometimes you get lucky. When we asked Jeffrey Toobin, the lawyer turned New Yorker writer and CNN senior legal analyst, to be a guest on this show, we had no idea that his time with us, during a long-planned trip to Austin, would coincide precisely with what can only be regarded as seismic news in his world: President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court. (more…)

June 4th, 2009

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, June 4
Also airs: Sunday, June 7, at 12:30 p.m.
Watch episodes online at klru.org/texasmonthlytalks or klru.tv

Austin writer Bud Shrake passed away earlier this year. Shrake taped an episode of Texas Monthly Talks in January 2008 during which time host Evan Smith said “If the assemblage of undeniably talented outlaws, renegades, malcontents, and misfits who emerged from the iron triangle of Paschal High School, Texas Christian University, and the Metroplex newspaper business amounts to a Fort Worth mafia, this week’s guest is surely the don: the most talented outlaw, renegade, malcontent, and misfit of the bunch — the one with the longest life in the world of writing at various levels and in various media, and the one whose work, more than that of any other, continues to surprise and delight.” Read more of Smith’s comments on Shrake here or watch the complete interview:

Writer Bud Shrake | Texas Monthly Talks from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

May 28th, 2009

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, May 28
Also airs: Sunday, May 31, at 12:30 p.m.
Watch episodes online at klru.org/texasmonthlytalks or klru.tv

Basketball Coach Jody Conradt from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

Even if you follow college basketball only occasionally, but especially if you’re an obsessive, as so many of us in Texas seem to be, she will always be “Coach” — never mind that she no longer sets foot on the court each day or each week, inspires her own team of young talents to prevail at their chosen sports, or guides a single student-athlete down the path to graduation. Jody Conradt did those things and more for plenty long enough, enthusiastically and expertly, making history along the way. (more…)

May 21st, 2009

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, May 21
Also airs: Sunday, May 24, at 12:30 p.m.
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Musician Sonny Rollins from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

As much he dislikes the word - as much as he thinks it makes him sound like a has-been, or a no-longer-is - Sonny Rollins is unquestionably a legend; no other word can possibly do justice to the self-described saxophone colossus and his truly remarkable career, which spans seven decades and includes a virtual who’s-who of jazz as supporting players. Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Theolonius Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Don Cherry, Art Blakey, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones: There is literally no one consequential last century or this that Rollins did not work with, record with, blow his horn for or alongside. (more…)

May 20th, 2009

Join Evan Smith and KLRU’s Texas Monthly Talks for an interview with legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and the taping starts at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27. Smith will interview Toobin for about 30 minutes to be followed by an audience q&a. RSVP for this taping here

May 14th, 2009

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, May 14
Also airs: Sunday, May 17, at 12:30 p.m.
Watch episodes online at klru.org/texasmonthlytalks or klru.tv

It is, more than anything else, his extraordinary range that impresses. Here’s a guy who can spend months, years, producing a 900-page biography of Teddy Roosevelt and at the same time, just as the first excerpts from that serious yet readable tome are seeing print, publish a 12,000-word cover story in Rolling Stone about Bob Dylan — who can edit both Ronald Reagan’s diaries and Hunter S. Thompson’s letters, who can serve as the official biographer for both Rosa Parks and Jack Kerouac, who can write passionately and authoritatively about Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath and Lance Armstrong’s comeback and Vietnam and Henry Ford and the Mississippi River and Norman Mailer and so much more. (more…)

May 8th, 2009

Austin writer Bud Shrake passed away early today. Shrake taped an episode of Texas Monthly Talks in January 2008 during which time host Evan Smith said “If the assemblage of undeniably talented outlaws, renegades, malcontents, and misfits who emerged from the iron triangle of Paschal High School, Texas Christian University, and the Metroplex newspaper business amounts to a Fort Worth mafia, this week’s guest is surely the don: the most talented outlaw, renegade, malcontent, and misfit of the bunch — the one with the longest life in the world of writing at various levels and in various media, and the one whose work, more than that of any other, continues to surprise and delight.” Read more of Smith’s comments on Shrake here or watch the complete interview:

Writer Bud Shrake | Texas Monthly Talks from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.