The White House press office has often described the president's activities at his ranch over the holidays as "clearing brush." Host Renee Montagne talks with commentator Baxter Black to determine what that means.
Baxter Black can shoe a horse, string a barbed wire fence and bang out a Bob Wills classic on his flat top guitar. A cowboy poet and former large animal veterinarian, Baxter was raised in New Mexico and spent most of his workin' life in the mountain west tormenting cows. Black now lives in Arizona and travels the country tormenting cowboys.
`Iolani freshman, Ben Liu is a pianist studying with Bichuan Li, a violinist in his school orchestra and one of the Madeline Schatz-Harris Youth Concerto Competition winners, playing with the Kamuela Philharmonic this weekend. Liu has won many competitions since starting the piano 8 years ago, and recently was a winner at the American Portege International Music Talent Competition and performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City. On Sunday, Ben Liu will be performing Edvard Griegʻs Piano Concerto in A minor at the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea. kamuelaphil.org
Satirical cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter Jules Feiffer has died at the age of 95. He was the illustrator of the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth."