RADIO SALVATION: This week's programs seem to suggest a trend toward getting saved. Saved from war by Ben Foster's character in The Messenger, saved from ourselves through community organizing, saved from the holocaust as Marjorie Perloff tells, saved from the art world by your true friends, and superheroes for girls. Plus we've saved some of the best Performa interviews for last. Click AIR Interviews: Erin Riley-Lopez
Erin Riley-Lopez investigates female comic book artists and superheroes for girls plus good news about the Bronx art scene. Read more Beyond the Subtitles: Ben Foster, The Messenger
The actor has to deliver the bad news to war widows in his new movie but the good news is he is working with Woody Harrelson and gets to romance Samantha Morton. Read more Clocktower History Project: Ellen Phelan
How the artist got involved with P.S.1 and the Clocktower, hung with Jennifer Bartlett and Joel Shapiro, and learned to burn her bra from John Baldessari. Read more Close Listening: Marjorie Perloff Conversation, Part 1
Perloff, one of America’s foremost scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, talks about her memoir, Vienna Paradox, and her formative years. Read more DJ Culture: Ben Watt
Mr. Watt discusses his his journey from Everything But the Girl to his ventures as a international club and radio DJ to his latest projects. Read more

LEGACY ARCHIVES
The following programs are encore presentations selected from the archives of AIR and WPS1. They are included in this week’s streamcast and many can also be found in the AIR on-demand audio archive. Kalup Linzy Variety Show: Raunchy Business, Part 2
More from Kalup Linzy’s Labisha (the diva), featuring blushing material from Millie Jackson, recorded live. Muevete: Early 90s in Cuba
Ned Sublette takes on the big noisy dance bands that shook up 1990’s Cuba, including NG La Banda, Irakere, Adalberto y Su Son, Paulito y su Elite, El Medico de la Salsa, and Charanga Habanera. Sonorama: Sasandu
From the Indonesian island of Roti, sounds made only from instruments constructed of bamboo and coconut leaves. Microgroove Radio: Brubeck Quartet
Audio gems selected from the lesser known discography of Dave Brubeck’s innovative quartet, one of the most popular ensembles in the history of jazz. Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone: I'd Rather Be Sloppy Drunk Than Any Way I Know
A conversation between a man and his marabout, concerning the ill-effects of the man's enjoyment of drink…