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Bar Crawl Radio

Alan Winson & Rebecca McKean

Did you ever have a really interesting conversation at a bar -- sharing ideas over a couple of martinis -- and wish you could"ve bottled it? That"s Bar Crawl Radio. Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson invite amazing people to bars all over the word -- make a toast -- and then talk about about whatever inspires them -- makes their lives worth living. We talk to all sorts of interesting people doing important work for their community at a neighborhood bar -- composers -- actors -- musicians -- medical

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50:22

Sweet Plantain & Super Powers @WSCG

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/06/10

Rebecca Mckean and I wereout on a late Sunday afternoon in June at the West Side Community Garden on the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- waiting to listen to Sweet Plantain – a string quartet -- with occasional trombone and mandalino – playing “a complex mix of Latin American music that artfully fuses western classical traditions” – according to the program.The mic was open to talk with our neighbors about their super powers. After the concert we spoke with Eddie Venegas leader of Sweet Plantain.So

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42:27

India Thusi on Sex Workers and the Police in...

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/06/03

BCR is talking about Sex Work. We spoke with a knowledgeable scholar whose recently published book “Policing Bodies” details her ethnographic study of the interaction of sex workers – the police – and the justice system of Johannesburg, South Africa.Prof. Thusi teaches in Bloomington at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and at the Kinsey Institute. India has worked with the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Opportunity Agenda.Early in her career –

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37:50

WSCG Summer Concert - Inti and the Moon

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/06/03

Back at the West Side Community Garden -- between W. 89th and 90th Streets – Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues -- and we opened this Bar Crawl Radio podcast with the sounds of "Inti and the Moon" – an Andean / Latin / World Fusion band. It was the second concert of the 2022 summer series in the Garden – organized by Randa Kirschbaum.Rebecca McKean and I were out on a beautiful late spring afternoon to settle an argument about whether it is rude to point – AND – to enjoy some delightful music. At the

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41:24

Best Teachers & Jazz at the WSCG

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/05/27

Rebecca and I arrived early to The West Side Community Garden -- a verdant neighborhood oasis – to record the jazz offerings of Sabu Adeyola's Spiritual Reunion Band and to talk to its leader about his career and memories of his teacher Charles Mingus. By the end of the concert Randa Kirshbaum who produces these summer musical repasts -- renamed the band "Miracle" because halfway through the concert Mr. Adeyola’s bass collapsed – well the bridge of his bass collapsed.And since this is the UWS,

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53:03

Brownsville, Brooklyn: A community of local organizers.

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/04/29

We are back recording at Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar on the UWS -- taking a deep dive into Brownsville Brooklyn and the amazing work being done by its community organizations working to establish a good life for its citizens. We talked with Genese Morgan, community organizer and Chair of Community Board 16 which advocates for Brownsville, Brooklyn in the New York City Council.And Ms. Morgan is the founder of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Neighborhood Improvement Association, INC.And, La’Shawn

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52:28

Plowshares : Nuclear War : Ukraine : Peace?

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/04/08

Catholic Workers – students of peace activism – knowers of Father Berrigan and thePlowshares movement–are already aware that this week was the fourth anniversary of the Kings Bay Plowshares action protesting the U.S. military’s nuclear stockpile.It is also the week that Martin Luther King was assassinated, over three decades ago. Less than a year before he was murdered, Dr. King addressed theNational Conference of New Politicsand argued that the American society was spoiled by 3 evils – Racism,

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34:04

Escaping Ukraine

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/04/05

For this BCR episode, we were privileged to talk with a woman who a few days prior to the recording escaped the war in Ukraine. I teach at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and recently one of my students missed several classes. This was unusual as Mishelle is the sort of student any teacher would welcome – attentive – actively participating – interested in most topics I bring up – and always prepared.In one class -- I had noted a sticker on the back of her laptop -- "F*** Putin" -- and she

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54:30

Ukrainians in NYC

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/04/01

BCR co-hosts Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson and producer. Alina Larson spoke with Ukrainians living, working and protesting in NYC. Andrew Fessak is the president of the Board of Trustees of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Volodymyr located on Manhattan's Upper West Side; Sam and Natasha are owners of the Blintz Box located in the underground Turnstyle Market next to the 59th Street subway station; Aleksandra Pryymak is a yoga instructor at a local Montessori school and a former Soviet

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59:59

Pandemic Start-Ups: Kekoa Baby Foods & Sourdough Gambit

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/03/11

BCR is back podcasting at Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We talked with brave people who decided to start a new business during a pandemic – Dan Auld and David Fullner of Kekoa Foods – making forward thinking and tasty natural baby foods.And Adam Simon – a grand master – maybe not at chess – but bread making. He recently started Sourdough Gambit supplying UWS residents with amazing artisanal breads.CONTACT Rebecca, Alan and Alina -- barcrawlradio@gmail.com Hosted

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57:18

Morgane Michael: Fierce on Kindness in Education

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/02/18

BCR usually records out of a favorite neighborhood bars on the UWS of Manhattan – but for this conversation we Zoomed it with a guest on the other side of this Great North American Continent. Teacher and fellow podcaster and advocator for a kinder world – Canadian – Morgane Michael. She resides and works in Victoria, British Columbia -- and this lady wears a bunch of hats.Morgane is a wife with two young children -- a teacher – speaker -- she produces and is the host of a prodigious podcast on the

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40:56

Brian Terrell: A walk with an activist & dreamer

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2022/01/24

This is a special edition of BCR - not in a bar but on the streets with a Catholic Worker activist. I recently talked with Brian Terrell in Union Square in NYC on a blistering, cold, sun-bright day in January 2022. He was in the city to give a talk at the recently installed, life-size, white, military drone statue by Sam Durant, above W. 30th Street on the High Line. Brian Terrell is a world-traveling peace activist who has been incarcerated in American prisons for protesting U.S.A. nuclear

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28:26

Bringing Out Baby

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/12/17

Recently, Rebecca McKean was on the scene when our second grandchild was born. She lied her way into the birthing room pretending to be a doula or obstetrician -- it is not clear. In any case it was a life-changing experience as she watched Zeva enter the world headfirst from the left leg side of our amazing daughter. Learn some little known facts about bringing out bebe as Alan and Rebecca celebrate at the UWS 5Napkin Bar.Contact: barcrawlradio@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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37:47

Hunkering Down with Actor Kathleen Chalfant

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/12/10

I visited with American actor Kathleen Chalfant back when we first hunkered down due to COVID19 for our Hunkered Down Podcast. At the time, I expressed my gratitude to Joel Bernstein for inviting Ms. Chalfant to the podcast. A celebrated and honored stage, film and television actor, Ms Chalfont debuted on Broadway inDance With Mefollowed byM. Butterfly.She has won numerous awards for her varied, powerful performances – in original Broadway productions. InWitshe played a scholar battling cancer –

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1:02:32

Havin' Nuf fun?

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/12/05

This BCR episode was recorded at Bar Hygge in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia. Becky and Alan have a fun-filled evening talking with Catherine Price about her newest book "The Power of Fun" How to feel Alive Again." Ms. Price describes herself as a “recovering tech addict”; she is the author of How to Break Up With Your Phone (2018) which has been published in 30 countries and featured on NPR – The NY Times – The Los Angeles Times – Time Magazine – Wired – Vox – BBC World News – and

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43:24

Hettie Anderson: Goddess-Like Model of the Gilded Age

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/11/27

Sometime in the 1890s – a young, tall, deeply handsome, light-skinned African American woman, and her mother, left the Jim Crow south and settled in New York City. She quickly became a sought-after artist’s model.Her form represented -- in statuary and coins, created by the most accomplished sculptors of the time – the ideal of the American Gilded Age – victorious, perfect, strong -- the Classic Greek idea of the female form –for a country in which some had became ridiculously rich during the

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39:48

Most Unusual Jobs

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/11/12

Park Bench Chats -- back in Riverside Park in Manhattan -- talking with our Upper West Side neighbors about their unusual jobs. And there were several. Join Rebecca and Alan as they talk with:Sam who was a motion picture projectionist for senior citizen homes and was in charge of painting the lines on NYC street - Al Gorgoni, guitarist, who was involved with most of the big hits that came out of New York City in the 60s including the opening riff of Van Morrison's "Brown Eye'd Girl" which he

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36:37

The Lotus Garden ... floating above Broadway.

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/11/05

ALERT! Garden lovers! This episode is for you.We’ve lived in NYC’s Upper West Side neighborhood for decades, and it was not until BCR producer Alina Larson connected us with the people in charge of The Lotus Garden, that we were aware a verdant urban oasis existed a few blocks from our apartment.Near Broadway—floating twenty feet above W. 97th street -- on the roof of a garage -- dwells a garden that has been tenderly cultivated -- for over 30 years.Three avid gardeners who are in charge of The

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41:57

Is Winning the Game "that" Important?

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/10/29

Alan Winson here -- co-host of Bar Crawl Radio podcast. I had just lost an important Lawn Bowling competition -- by a "squeaker" -- to my former bowling student and friend -- Joe Kelly. I was happy for Joe, but -- hey -- I lost. It got me thinking about the experience of winning the game. Rebecca McKean and I invited Joe and his life partner, Ryan Hastu, to meet us on a Riverside Park bench below the crumbling Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument to talk with us and our neighbors about the importance of

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44:35

Mike Vogel: A New York Attitude

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/10/22

We met Mike Vogel at a BCR Park Bench Chat episode in which we asked our neighbors on an afternoon stroll along the Riverside Park Promenade below the crumbing Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: Do you like your job? After a bit of cajoling, Mike joined us and told his his job was writing about what annoyed him -- we knew we wanted to learn more. This author of "New York Attitude" [2020] joined us at Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar to talk about his love-affair with misunderstood New York City and NYers

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42:13

Best "human" Friend

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2021/10/16

It's early Fall and the night comes quickly in Riverside Park in Manhattan's Upper West Side. For this BCR Park Bench Chat, Becky and Alan talked with neighbors out for their afternoon stroll about their "best" friend. Some had issues with that description and preferred "close." We spoke with Layla (& Nidra, her mother), Grant, and John. Who's your best friend? Share at barcrawlradio@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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