Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Three Rivers Pride Board Secretary Lexi Jacobs, President Chuck Lepinski, and Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Apwisch to preview the third annual Three Rivers Pride Festival.

This year's festival will take place Saturday, June 21 in downtown Three Rivers from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event will include live music, food, and access to over 40 vendors offering a variety of services. The Kittens' Drag Show will cap off the day's festivities at the Riviera Theatre. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m. You can pre-order tickets for $15 or buy tickets the day of the show for $20, while supplies last.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Tantrum” by Ozo Bozo. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

Watershed Voice launched in 2020 only weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic had much of the country sheltering in place, and a short time before protests, the size and frequency of which the country hadn't seen since the Civil Rights movement, dominated the headlines. It was a tumultuous time in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the worst time to start a new business outside of the Great Depression. Yet somehow, five years later, Watershed Voice is still here.

In honor of the news organization's upcoming five-year anniversary, Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Deborah Haak-Frost to provide an oral history of Watershed's inception and the months and years that followed. Join us as we recall the trying and triumphant times of your favorite award-winning nonprofit news magazine.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Get Dangerous!” by Frank Bentley. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

This week on Keep Your Voice Down Three Rivers singer-songwriter Lucky Fultz joins hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. to discuss his upcoming album "Riverside Drive," which is set to drop on February 28. Fultz details his musical influences and methodology, Tupac gets praise, Drake gets all the smoke, and male vulnerability is celebrated.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Normal” by Lucky Fultz. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. are joined by Watershed Voice Staff Reporter Najifa Farhat to discuss her educational and professional background, the experiences in Bangladesh that propelled her toward a career in journalism, family dynamics, and her interest in climate vulnerabilities.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Till I Die” by ZISO. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

Watershed Voice Short Story Contest winners Tereasa Bellew & Sundos Hejazi recently dropped by Keep Your Voice Down to discuss their winning pieces.

Sundos, whose short story titled "One Man" won the 17 and under category, lives in Portage where she attends Portage Central High School. Tereasa, a grandmother of five and great grandmother of two, won the 18 and over category with her short story "A New Beginning." She lives in Marcellus, where she does much of her writing under the pen name Teresa Blue.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Knocked Out” by Canon. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

OK, Brittni Huyck was gone for a minute but she's back now, and she has a new story to tell, literature(ly). The local author, hairstylist, and Three Rivers native dropped by Keep Your Voice Down Thursday to promote the fourth (and possibly final) book in her Iron City Heat Series "Someone Like Him."

Doug, Alek, and Brit discuss the obstacles she encountered between writing her third and fourth book, why she may be done writing romance novels, how "Someone Like Him" is different from her three previous books, and may be her best work yet.

"Someone Like Him" officially drops on December 31 but you can pre-order your copy today on Amazon. Brazen Beauty Bar (56964 N. Main St. Suite 4, Three Rivers) will host a launch party for Brittni's new novel on Friday, January 10 from 6-8 p.m. where you can get a signed copy of the book and meet the author.

Following Brittni's interview (54:07), Alek and Doug fill listeners in on what's happened in their lives since the last time they recorded an episode, and Doug gives a moving tribute to his late cat Samwell.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Big Leagues” by Vic Sage. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

Alek and Doug are back (as is Doug's voice) to discuss the upcoming launch of Watershed Voice's new website, the importance of maintaining editorial independence and practicing watchdog journalism, and the news magazine's ongoing need for financial support.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Appassionato” by Noto. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

Kalamazoo-based creative Marcel Fable Price drops by Keep Your Voice Down to promote his book "New American Monarch," and perform an excerpt from the title ahead of its October 8 release. Alek, Doug, and Fable also settle the Chicago deep dish versus New York style pizza debate, discover the link between Fable's love of nature and Louis Armstrong, and discuss the myriad of ways one can process trauma and grief.

You can pre-order "New American Monarch" on Fable's website, and find anything else Fable related here.

The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “war in my head” by messwave. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.