Adia Barnes on Teamwork and Motherhood.
Featured on the January 13th, 2022 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- The Colorado River is shrinking, and agriculture is in the crosshairs, using the largest share of the river’s water. Farmers and researchers are planning for a future with less to go around. KUNC’s Alex Hager visited growers in one of the driest parts of the Southwest for the story.
- Adia Barnes, the head coach of the University of Arizona Wildcats women’s basketball team, reflects on her approach to balancing her family with her career, and how a moment during the 2021 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship became a viral sensation about modern motherhood. Nina Shelton produced this story for Arizona Illustrated on PBS 6.
- Film director Peter Bogdanovich passed away last week at age 82. Often guided by his love for Hollywood history, Bogdanovich’s genre-spanning career included as many masterpieces as disasters. Film essayist Chris Dashiell offers some recommendations and assesses Bogdanovich’s complicated legacy.
- And, Tucson author Michelle Ross most recent collection of short fiction is called {_Shapeshifting_](https://www.stillhousepress.org/michelle-ross). The interview is coming next week, but now you can listen to Ross read her story about Rhoda and Don, a married couple preparing for the end of the world, as Rhoda ponders what is the correct answer to the question “Cake or Pie?”
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