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Playlist: Dallas, TX

Compiled By: Eva Breneman

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Texas is going vegan, y'all!

From JL Fields | Part of the Easy Vegan with JL Fields series | 28:15

Kat Mendenhall has turned her passion into profit by making vegan cowboy boots and opening Dallas' first all vegan boutique.

Kat_mendenhall_small Kat Mendenhall has turned her passion into profit by making vegan cowboy boots and opening Dallas' first all vegan boutique.

Political Roundtable

From Ann Wog | 54:00

Rick Dunham of the Houston Chronicle talks with Linda Feldmann of The Christian Science Monitor, Todd Gillman of The Dallas Morning News and Steve Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers about the first year of the Obama Administration and the challenges it faces.

Default-piece-image-1 Former National Press Club President Rick Dunham hosts a roundtable discussion of topics ranging from Obama's first year successes and failures, health care, terrorism, the economy and the 2010 midterm elections.  He is joined by Linda Feldmann of The Christian Science Monitor, Todd Gillman of The Dallas Morning News and Steve Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers.

Episode 69: Becoming Chief Brown

From Criminal | Part of the Criminal series | 29:52

Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 Dallas officers were shot and killed in what was said to be the deadliest attack for law enforcement since September 11th, 2001. Today on the show, we ask David Brown how he’s changed after 33 years of policing.

Criminalzag_small Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 Dallas officers were shot and killed in what was said to be the deadliest attack for law enforcement since September 11th, 2001. Today on the show, we ask David Brown how he’s changed after 33 years of policing.

Texas Slam Poet Joaquín Zihuatanejo

From New Letters on the Air | 29:00

Joaquín Zihuatanejo discusses poems based on life in his hometown of East Dallas. He also talks about his early life growing up without his father and reads brutally honest pieces from ARSONIST that reveal his outlook on the world.

Jz1-400_small Joaquín (wah-keen) Zihuatanejo (zee-wah-ta-nay-ho), a former American slam poet who's the only one so far to win both the American Individual World Poetry Slam and the European World Cup of Poetry. He discusses poems based on life in his hometown of East Dallas and also talks about his early experience of growing up without his father and the impact it left on him. Zihuatanejo reads brutally honest poems from ARSONIST and reveals his outlook on the world to an audience at the Kansas City Public Library.