If you want to hear the one hour interview with me on WGCU Florida Public Radio, here’s the link.

I will be interviewed on Florida’s WGCU public radio on Wednesday January 27, 12-1pm EST. You can listen in live through their website. This is in conjunction with my visit to Florida to address the Southwest Florida Speakers Assembly on Thursday, January 28.

I will be on the road addressing other groups in the weeks ahead. On February 12, I will one of the featured guests at the Generations Forum, an interesting conference sponsored by The Economist in Geneva, Switzerland. If you ever wanted to see behind the scenes about how The Economist is put together, this may be of interest to you.

On February 19, Kal will be a featured speaker at the Warwick Economic Summit at Warwick University, UK

I will be on WYPR”s Maryland Morning broadcast Friday morning discussing the great website USDemocrazy.com.

Here’s a link to the audio, we start at the 26:50 mark.

USDemocrazy is a project that I lead as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County UMBC. The site is a current events/educational/entertainment site dedicated to making the news fun and interesting.

I have corralled an elite team of University student bloggers (I refer to them as my vagabonding Blogateers) to supply daily updates on current events.

We are also teaming up with High Schools around the country who are interested in using USDemocrazy in the classroom as a tool for discussing current events.

It’s a great project with enormous potential. To learn more, listen to the interview or contact me here!

For those Russian speakers you might enjoy this interview recently conducted by Maria Tabak
US Correspondent for RIA Novosti (Russian News and Information Agency). The conversation took place at the recent Art Soiree Cartoon exhibition in Washington DC. The only word I recognize is “Economist”. If any one can read it please let me know how I sound in Russian.

Here’s this week’s cover for The Economist on the issue of Obama’s first year in office.

If you are planning to be in DC on Sunday night …here’s a party you may want to be seen at… It is sponsored by a group named ArtSoiree

From the press release:

With a touch of art, style and humor Art Soiree celebrates one year of Obama’s presidency by presenting a one of a kind exhibition.

Join us Sunday, January 17th at 7pm for the most unique and controversial event in the country.

Obama’s Portfolio: Humorous highlights of the first year in office.

For ages graphic satire has been a significant journalistic medium and a catalyst for political debate. This exclusive ONE NIGHT ONLY exhibition will feature the most renowned editorial and political cartoonists from world’s top newspapers and magazines. Their works have been published in the Economist, NYTimes, Huffington Post and many other well known publications. Come and judge for yourself whether their graphic satire represents your, the citizen’s, perspective of the political life. The exhibition will provide a full analysis on Obama’s administration through political cartoons published in 2009.

All of this and more will take place this Sunday at Hudson Restaurant and Lounge – a great spot for socializing with friends over distinctively creative cocktails and great food in a warm and elegant atmosphere.

As always, Art Soiree promises to draw area’s most celebrated figures in both social and political arenas, may be even the president himself!!!

Here’s my most recent cartoon from this week’s edition of The Economist. Any resemblance between the disreputable character portrayed in the cartoon and any cartoonist alive or dead is purely coincidental… more or less.

The local NPR station in Baltimore, WYPR (88.1FM) did a lengthy interview this week about the 2010 Illustrated wall Kalendar and other things related to The Economist. It’s long (15 minutes) and is the second leg of the hour long show which is called The Signal.

The show airs Friday, January 8 at noon and again at 7PM. But they have already released the show on the web. Here’s the link to the web audio ( my interview starts at the 15:30 mark).

Let’s hope our world isn’t thrown upside down this year!