Late night fun with dance remixes, jazz, rock, alternative, sound collage and more.

A nostalgic hour of music of the big bands and combos. 

Celebrating the Fourth on today's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN (11am-noon Central Standard on 88.7FM locally or www.krvs.org) with sounds by Hendrix, MC5, The Blasters, The Nice, Yes and Brother Dege. Also: tracks from the latest releases by Fights, Anders Osborne and Sonny Landreth.

A load of rockin' new releases on today's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN (11am-noon Central Standard on 88.7FM locally or streaming atwww.krvs.org) include the latest by The Blasters, Johnny Mastro and Mama's Boys, Robert Cray Band, Chief Fuzzer, Ryan Montbleau, Otis, Debo Band and Matisyahu. Also: some Chris Isaak, Tedeschi-Trucks Band and Zachary Richard & Sonny Landreth performing "Cote Blanche Bay" at The Medicine Show back nearly 10 years now.

Johanna Divine navigates the musical landscape highlighting tunes from specific locales for each program.

Louis Michot honors the roots of Traditional Cajun French Music with all of the original Masters from South Louisiana.

Freetown Radio is a free form, mixed bag of sounds showcasing music that is often neglected on commercial radio. Co-hosts Chas Justus and Roger Kash expose the intricate and subtle connections linking all genres of music from the dawn of recorded music early in the 20th Century to the so called "modern" sounds of today. Each week Roger and Chas deal with a specific theme and explore connections that transcend the boundaries of genre, exposing classifications as just marketing tools that record companies invent to sell records.

Herschell Gordon Lewis is cheerfully ambivalent about his place in film history. "What's really puzzling: if you go to a legitimate distributor such as Netflix, Netflix has a number of my movies," says Lewis from his home in Florida. "And again, that's a very sad commentary on what's going on in the world of motion pictures — but I'm not about to object to it."

If you pay any attention at all to ads for vitamins, you'd be forgiven for thinking they're good for just about anything that could ever ail you.

The biggest scandal in the world right now has nothing to do with sex or celebrities. It's about an interest rate called LIBOR, or the London Interbank Offered Rate.

Most Americans probably never heard of LIBOR. When I first moved to New York, I hadn't. Back then, I could barely afford my apartment and got an adjustable rate mortgage. And so I wondered: When my rate adjusts, how will I know how much I'll be paying?

I searched through all the documents and it was right there — LIBOR. I would be paying a few percentage points above whatever LIBOR was.