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Sunday, March 23, 2014 local almanac

Mar 23, 2014 12:01 am
Local News
Local news from Wave Farm‘s WGXC 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley, New York for Sat., March 15. PLAY AUDIO (3:28)

Local weather forecast
Today's forecast is specific to Acra, in Greene County.

Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 31, and a low around 7. Wind chill values as low as -9.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 27. Wind chill values as low as -10. Monday night should be partly cloudy, with a low around 11.

Tuesday: A chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 29.

Sunrise 6:51 a.m.
Sunset 7:11 p.m.
Other celestial rises/sets
Moon 1:31 A.M. 11:27 A.M.
Mercury 6:06 A.M. 4:54 P.M.
Venus 4:54 A.M. 3:15 P.M.
Mars 8:46 P.M. 8:05 A.M.
Jupiter 12:03 P.M. 3:16 A.M.
Saturn 11:12 P.M. 9:19 A.M.
Uranus 7:19 A.M. 7:53 P.M.
Neptune 5:58 A.M. 4:50 P.M.
Pluto 3:04 A.M. 12:34 P.M.

WGXC Programming

March 22, 2014: 8 p.m. – March 23, 2014: 1 a.m.: Saturday Night Special: Edward Snowden
Special on recent talks from exiled leaker Edward Snowden, mixed with a 2001 Department of Defense video "The People's Right to Know" about how the Freedom of Information Act works.

1 a.m. – 5 a.m.: Radius Sketchpad: Rewind
Several past episodes of Radius Sketchpad, an ongoing monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based platform, Radius, are featured. Included: ShortWaveMusic'sAll Night Flight.

5 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.: Radia: James Goddard
Radia Show 486: "On Failure" by James Goddard (Ckut Radio Montreal). "Radia" is an international network of 25 stations, including Wave Farm's WGXC, interested in creative and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for the rest. This episode of Radia focuses on concept of failure and its sources using radio art as its exploratory medium. Failure of technology, Failure of language, Failure of colonialism, Failure to induce laughter…ultimately, failure to fail and many more expressions of failure, inaction and irrelevancy of success. James Goddard lives in Montréal, QC. He pays his bills by resisting oppressive working conditions and supporting better food options at Le Frigo Vert. He once interned at CKUT 90.3FM, before that he worked at CFRC 101.9FM and CHMA 106.9FM. His writing has appeared on Weird Canada and in Syphon magazine.

5:30 a.m. – 6 a.m.: CounterSpin: Carla Murphy, Sarah Jaffe
Tune in wavefarm.org to hear transmission arts around the clock.
Carla Murphy on an FCC diversity study, and Sarah Jaffe on charter schools.

6 p.m. – 8 p.m.: Mambo Italiano: 20140323
Join host Tom DePietro for a show on all things Italian. Music, books, food and more.