Mary-Charlotte Domandi is producer and host of the Santa Fe Radio Cafe
on KSFR 101.1 FM (Santa Fe, NM, Public Radio), an award-winning
program of interviews on subjects spanning politics, the environment,
literature, art, and science. She holds degrees from Yale University
and St. John's College. She is also a Latin music DJ, has studied
social and folkloric dance in Cuba, and has interviewed many
distinguished Latin musicians. http://santaferadiocafe.org/

Blog Entries by Mary-Charlotte Domandi

A Critically Endangered Mammal You've Never Heard of: the Saola

Posted November 18, 2009 | 03:00 AM (EST)


Discovered only in 1992 by wildlife biologists, saolas are antelope-like bovine creatures who live in the forests on the border of Laos and Vietnam. They are elusive and rarely seen, even by local villagers, and cannot, apparently, survive in captivity--not a single saola exists in any zoo in the world....

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Gay Marriage: Just Because You Can, Does that Mean You Should?

Posted August 24, 2009 | 02:16 PM (EST)


Frederick Hertz, a divorce lawyer in a long-term unmarried same-sex partnership, has co-written with Emily Doskow a book called, Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnership, and Civil Unions. It covers a wide range, from the first same sex couple to apply for a marriage license...

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A New Voice in Independent Latino Cinema

Posted August 18, 2009 | 12:23 AM (EST)


Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in film isn't as one-dimensional as it was twenty years ago -- Latino actors are no longer cast only as gangsters and maids -- but it still has a long way to go. A young and brilliant independent filmmaker, Cruz Angeles, discusses his new film, Don't...

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Reykjavik Revisited

Posted August 17, 2009 | 03:01 AM (EST)


Richard Rhodes is best known as the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, and Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race. But he's also a novelist and now a playwright; his new play, Reykjavik, is a true-to-life dramatization of the...

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The End of Prohibition?

Posted January 6, 2009 | 02:26 AM (EST)


Howard Wooldridge, a retired Michigan police officer, rode his horse Misty across the U.S., talking to groups like Rotary clubs, Kiwanis, churches, Elks lodges, John Birch societies, and media about the failure of the so-called War on Drugs.

What are the advantages and disadvantages to legalizing drugs? What would...

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