Interview about RSBE on KSFR

Got to do an interview with an old friend, Jim Werbel, for KSFR, a radio station based in Santa Fe.

I met Jim when we were both living in Ames, Iowa. We met through our common interest in mushroom hunting. He was a professor at the business school at Iowa State University, but as you can see, he's literally let his hair grow out since those days. 

The interview was about the production of RSBE (Remove Shoes Before Entering), about to be performed on June 4 at the Wildflower Playhouse in Taos by the 2026 students at Taos Opera Institute.

 

Taos Opera Institute 2026

Another beautiful summer at Taos Opera Institute. The picture is from the interior of the radio KNCE which has its studio inside a vintage airstream trailer. (The Opera Institute sticker is the mountain near the middle.) The weather this time of year up in the ski valley is perfect, with lows in the 30s-40s and highs in the 50s-50s. This summer we are doing RSBE.

Here's a closeup of a magpie

and here's what a beaver can do to a tree.