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Seg. 1: Go Dog Go, With Puppets. Seg. 2: Fair Pictures. Seg. 3: Eems On Making Music Without A Genre

Segment 1: A puppeteer takes on a beloved childhood classic with virtually no narrative, but lots of dogs.

Mesner Puppet Theater is staging two very different productions this summer: P.D. Eastman's Go, Dog, Go! and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare.


Segment 2, beginning at 12:35: A photographer on being the artist-in-residence at the Missouri State Fair.

Rather than turning his lens on animals, rides or performers, Matt Rahner focused on the people visiting the fair, in his series Fair Pictures.


Segment 3, beginning at 27:00: Eems, a Kansas City musician, tells his story.

From hating music while singing in church as a kid on Kansas City's "northside" to inventing ukelele hip-hop to getting into drill teams. His new EP is called Dreems.

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Gina’s background combines print and broadcast journalism, live event hosting and production, creative nonfiction writing and involvement in the arts. Early in her career, she followed a cultural beat for The Pitch, where she served as an editor and art writer in the early 2000s.
Suzanne Hogan graduated from the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico, with a degrees in Political Science and Documentary Studies. Her interests include Latin American politics, immigration and storytelling in a variety of mediums including photography, film/video and writing.