Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. City Arts & Lectures programs can be heard on more than 130 public radio stations across the country and wherever you get your podcasts. The broadcasts are co-produced with KQED 88.5 FM in San Francisco. Visit CITYARTS.NET for more info.
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Recordings of the radio broadcast of City Arts and Lectures, an interview/lecture series in San Francisco www.cityarts.net/radio.html
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A podcast/blog spotlighting the Birmingham Theatre scene, and occasionally ranting about other topics in theatre, film, and social issues.
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Dr. Flow aka André Stith (aka @AndreInTheFlow) has launched a Creative Mutual Support Network + Online eCampus + Café dedicated to uplifting humanity through the making of music, sharing resources, and community organizing through in-person + digital gatherings.
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A monthly look at the lively arts scene – film, theatre, art, dance, music and events – in the New York metropolitan area.
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Alison Bechdel‘s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For grew wildly in response to her graphic memoirs, the best-selling Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, Are You My Mother?, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. To many, her name is synonymous with the Bechdel Test, a metric to evaluate a film’s represe…
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Noguchi Museum, Bette Davis, Betty Boop, and more!
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27:16This month on Arts in the City…we tour the Noguchi Museum in Queens; visit the immersive exhibits at Mercer Labs; check out a play about Hollywood icon Bette Davis; take a look at inspiring murals with Groundswell; and chat with the creative team and stars of the Broadway hit Boop!
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Biographer Ron Chernow’s acclaimed books include Alexander Hamilton, adapted into the Broadway musical Hamilton, and Washington: A Life, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. With his new book Mark Twain, Chernow illuminates the colorful and complex life of the fame-seeking journalist, satirist, performer and political pundit. America’s …
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Encore: Jon M. Chu and Awkwafina
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1:06:06Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese American helping at his parents’ Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley and forever facing the cultural identity crisis endemic to children of immigrants. Growing up on the cutting edge of 21st-century…
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Our guest today is Anna Malaika Tubbs, a multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. She is the author of “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation” and the just-published “Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us”. In bo…
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Ross Gay is a writer with a mission: to help readers explore the beautiful complexities of joy, gratitude, and delight. In his essays and poetry, Gay brings his overflowing kindness and relentless eye for details to community gardens, the lives of Black people, the artistry of basketball, and much more. He is the author of the poetry collections Ca…
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Alec Karakatsanis is a lawyer, writer, and the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Civil Rights Corps. He graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, and served as a deputy public defender in the District of Columbia. His books are "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System" and the newly publishe…
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Vauhini Vara is a journalist, novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She began her journalism career as a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal and later launched, edited and wrote for the business section of the New Yorker’s website. Her latest book, Searches, is a work of journalism and memoir about how big technology companies ar…
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This is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired in August of 2023. We've selected the encore to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the turning point in the Vietnamese diaspora of which Ocean Vuong is a part. Ocean Vuong‘s exquisitely crafted poetry and prose ask perennial and pressing questions about race, masculinit…
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Torrey PetersAf City Arts & Lectures
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Museum of the Dog, Opera Praktikos, CUNY FilmFest, and more!
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27:52This month on Arts in the City… we stop by a museum dedicated to man’s best friend, visit an opera company highlighting talent and inclusivity; chat with the cast of the off-Broadway hit Conversations With Mother; take a look at some whimsical sculptures; and check out the CUNY Film Festival.
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Our guest today is Gianna Toboni, an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker whose new book “The Volunteer” is the unusual story of a Death Row inmate. In 2007, Scott Dozier was convicted of a pair of grisly murders, and sent to Nevada’s Death Row. Rather than fighting that sentence, Dozier sought to expedite his execution. But despite h…
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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
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1:24:41Ezra Klein is a columnist and podcast host at The New York Times and the author of Why We’re Polarized. Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, host of the podcast Plain English and a news analyst with NPR. Klein and Thompson’s new book Abundance is a call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic scarcity: from clim…
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Who is Government? W. Kamau Bell, Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Michael Lewis
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1:12:24Today, we’ll listen to a conversation with four writers: journalist Michael Lewis, TV host and comedian W. Kamau Bell, novelist Dave Eggers and historian Sarah Vowell – all paying tribute to civil servants, government workers often un-recognized but essential to a functioning democracy. They were profiled in a series of articles in the Washington P…
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Our guest today is poet, author, and meditator Diego Perez, better known by his pen name: Yung Pueblo. A popular voice in the self-improvement space, Pueblo is known for writing – in books and on social media – that focuses on personal development and healthy relationships. His newest book is How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Throug…
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Chazz Palminteri, Explorers Club, Apex at AMNH, and more!
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28:47This month on Arts in the City…we tour one of NYC's most-storied societies at the Explorers Club; chat with actor Chazz Palminteri; check out the American Museum of Natural History’s 150-million-year-old Stegosaurus named Apex; speak with the cast of the off-Broadway hit Liberation; and take a poignant look inside Anne Frank's house.…
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Our guest today is writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, revered in her home country of Nigeria and in the United States, thanks especially to the popularity of her 2013 novel Americannah, a book that straddles the cultures of America and Nigeria and considers the challenges, status, and perceptions of Africans abroad. Since then, Adichie has continued …
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Laurie Woolever is a writer, cook, and former right-hand woman to the late Anthony Bourdain. Woolever’s memoir “Care and Feeding” chronicles her journey through the food world as she navigated addiction, a cultural reckoning, and unexpected tragedy. The intensity of restaurant kitchens and the rock-and-roll lifestyle of celebrity chefs make the boo…
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Melissa Clark is the author of more than 30 cookbooks, and a writer at the New York Times, where she appears in a weekly cooking video series. She’s known for her passionate, but casual, approach to cooking, and her love of anchovies. Emily Weinstein is the editor-in-chief of NYT Cooking and Food whose latest book is “Easy Weeknight Dinners”. On Fe…
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