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It’s Monday, September 24 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation.

A cacophony of corals in distress

Greta Aeby is an assistant researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. She’s been studying the global spread of montipora white disease and has documented its existence in Hawaii. Two years ago she released research showing the outbreak in Kaneohe Bay and this summer, in reefs off Maui.

A festival up in flames...as intended...

Sarah Honda is the curator of a four-film documentary festival called The World, Is Going Up in Flames: movies about people and the music that changed their lives.

One fun time: Two anniversaries, three settings of Edward Lear

Chamber Music Hawaii and Hawaii Public Radio are positively giddy over their respective thirty years of existence. A plot was hatched some months ago to celebrate, and well,  HPR President and CEO Michael Titterton tells the story best.

The return of the improvisateur provocateur...

Garrick Paikai is one of the organizers of the 7th Annual Improvaganza! Hawaii Festival of Improv, which runs September 27-30 at The ARTS at Marks Garage and The Venue in downtown Honolulu.

Plus today’s reality check, the Deutsche Welle world report… and a look at transit history in the backyard …first the NPR news.