Desert Air
New episodes monthly
Desert Air is the best of Desert Companion magazine for your ears — arts and culture coverage, thoughtful commentary, and creative nonfiction. This podcast provides a space for interviews and storytelling unlike any other, connecting Southern Nevadans with each other and their home.
It’s brought to you by the talented folks at Nevada Public Radio: Christopher Alvarez, sound design; Rachel Christiansen, editor; Anne Davis, host; Briana Joseph, narration; Heidi Kyser, managing editor. Our theme music is by Blue Dot sessions.
The Latest
Rick Arevalo
/
Nevada Public Radio
In his debut novel, local author Nicholas Russell weaves a gothic tale around characters with fateful obsessions
Ryan Vellinga
/
Nevada Public Radio
Saretta Morgan is the Black Mountain Institute’s very first Kluge Fellow. She’s the author of two poetry chapbooks and a poetry book, titled Alt-Nature, published by Coffee House Press in early 2024
Ones to Watch 2024
More conversations, interviews and narrations
-
The Vegas-based poet on the power of poetry as communication -
Copper is essential to modern technology. But Smith Valley residents worry about a mine’s effect on their water -
Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas -
The Vegas-based architecture professor on how he works with, not against, AI design -
Ten years after Yunior Lopez founded it, the Young Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas continues to be a launchpad for aspiring musicians
