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July 14, 2026 Listen Download [00:00:00] Brian Mackey: Today on the 21st show, novelist Shelby Van Pelt was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, but she now makes her home in Illinois, in the suburbs of Chicago. Her debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures, is about an octopus who forms a bond with an aging woman still grieving her son's disappearance many years ago. The book has been a huge success, reportedly selling more than 2 million copies. It's also been made into a movie by Netflix.

July 13, 2026 Listen Download // This is a machine generated transcript. Please report any transcription errors to will-help@illinois.edu. [00:00:00] Brian Mackey: Today on the 21st show, scams and fraud are all around us, from pyramid schemes to spam calls. We'll talk with Kelly Richmond Pope about why people do it and how we can better avoid being taken in.

ILLINOIS CLASSICAL: The Evening Concert: JULY 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17, 2026 Sunday, July 12, 6:00 pm: Chamber Mus. Soc. of Lincoln Center (CMS 26-43) American Meditations John Corigliano: Soliloquy for Clarinet and String Quartet. David Shifrin, Clarinet; Francisco Fullana, Violin I Arnaud Sussmann, Violin II; Matthew Lipman, Viola; Nicholas Canellakis, Cello Leonard Bernstein: Three Meditations from Mass for Cello and Piano.

July 11, 2026 While a home run can send a baseball soaring past 400 feet, achieving this feat involves complex physics during the ball-to-bat collision. However, atmospheric conditions also significantly influence the game. In fact, a study by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society found that warmer air from high temperatures can account for 1% of home runs.

Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District has been driving passengers from stop to stop for decades, whether it be through rain, thunderstorms and snow storms. But how does the MTD continue its services under extreme weather conditions?

In the summer of 2020, 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. left his California home to participate in the racial justice movement at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) in Seattle. Within a week of arriving in the police-free neighborhood, the teenager was tragically killed when volunteer security forces opened fire on a crashed Jeep he was inside.

Skip to content July 10, 2026 Listen (Duration: 26:00) Download // This is a machine generated transcript. Please report any transcription errors to will-help@illinois.edu. [00:00:00] Reginald Hardwick: From Illinois Soul, this is Dialogue. I'm Reginald Hardwick. Dialogue is an exchange about culture straight from the soul.

July 10, 2026 This time, on the Atomic Age Cocktail Party, we’re taking a Stairway to the Stars! We’re looking at songs that feature “star” or “stars” in their title. The ways hi-fi era songwriters used the image and idea of stars were as varied and vast as, well, the stars in the sky. You could wish upon a star…a place to put your dreams. You could have lucky stars. Stars can be distracting. The stars in the sky could be a real space-age destination. And on and on.

// This is a machine generated transcript. Please report any transcription errors to will-help@illinois.edu. [00:00:00] Brian Mackey: It's the 21st show. I'm Brian Mackey. In 1945, so the story goes, the owner of Chicago's Billy Goat Tavern tried to get his pet goat into a baseball game at Wrigley Field. It was the 1945 World Series, and William [Sianis] was hoping to bring the Chicago Cubs some good luck and his tavern some publicity.

We're joined this week by horticulturists Karen Ruckle and Ella Maxwel as they discuss summer garden care. Karen shows how to refresh overgrown annual containers by selectively cutting back coleus and petunias and giving them a boost of fertilizer so they look good into fall.