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A quick look at featured programs airing this week (2/7 - 2/13):

Tune in to What's a Girl to Do on Monday for a live performance by local jazz singer Corrina Rachel, singing love ballads to set the mood for Valentine's Day. Monday, 2/8, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Tune in to From the Other Side of the Mirror for John Turner's look into an innovator from The Bronx, who meshed Latin rhythms with disco, August Darnell, known to all as Kid Creole. Monday, 2/8, 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Join Under the X in Texas host Ted Branson with jazz swing quartet MilkDrive, performing live in studio before a series of 13 Austin dates, celebrating their current CD, MilkDrive Live '09. Tuesday, 2/9, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Hey LoveBirds! Please stop by Le Chateau Daddy-O for a great musical survey of the proper ettiquette for falling hopelessly in Love just in time for the bone-crushing juggernaut that is Valentine's Day. Be there!...We'll fall in Love!...It'll be fun!...No, Really! Tuesday, 2/9, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. "Love, huh? I give it about a week." -- Rocky.

Join Abigail Mahnke this week on Inner Views. She'll be interviewing Marlayna Brown, who grew up in Las Vegas with one of those "Did that really happen to you?" kind of lives. Tune in to learn more about her dysfunctional upbringing, her 5-time marrying mother, and her missing father. Wednesday, 2/10, 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

People United features the late historian Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010) (pictured left) delivering his keynote address here in Austin at the 2006 Historians Against the War (HAW) Conference. Friday, 2/12, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m

Dig this cats and kitties! Join host Dennis Campa for a Beat Era edition of Adventures in Sound. You'll hear from the most: Jack Kerouac, Lord Buckley, Rod McKuen, Babs Gonzales, even Perry Como! Saturday, 2/13, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Daddy-O!

Pictured above are a few dedicated 91.7FM KOOP Radio Team volunteers (left to right: Phillip Russell, Audrey Reynolds, a market customer, and Eva Reavley), braving the cold on Sunday, Jan. 31st while tabling at the new East Austin "HOPE" Farmer's Market. Don't forget to say a friendly "hello" and "thanks" to our KOOP tablers at local events like this one.

       

Shop local and give back at the same time by ordering flowers at King Florist and mentioning KOOP Radio. Each time you do this, King Florist - as part of its "One Bloom at a Time" program - will donate 5% of the order to KOOP! Order in person at 6009 Burnet Rd., call it in at either (512) 453-6633 or 1-800-582-5464, or send them an email at design at kingflorist dot com.

Over the years, KOOP Radio and certain KOOP programmers have racked up quite a number of appearances in the Austin Chronicle's annual "Best of Austin" issue. Below are just a few of those, but you can see a nice big list right here.