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The Culture Show Podcast

A Boston-based podcast that thrives in how we live. What we like to see, watch, taste, hear, feel and talk about. It’s an expansive look at our society through art, culture and entertainment. It’s a conversation about the seminal moments and sizable shocks that are driving the daily discourse. We’ll amplify local creatives and explore the homegrown arts and culture landscape and tap into the big talent that tours Boston along the way.

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May 17, 2024 - Week in Review: King Charles'...

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2024/05/17

Coming up on the Culture Show, live from our GBH studio at the Boston Public Library, it’s our arts and culture week-in-review.First up, The Red Scare. The new portrait of King Charles III is saturated in reds and sparking controversy. Is it a monarchy masterpiece? Or a monstrosity? Then we remember culinary legend Jasper White who elevated New England’s food scene by taking us out of the era of plain old corn pudding and fish chowder with a series of successful seafood restaurants,

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May 16, 2024 - Martyna Majok, the Nakba in...

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2024/05/16

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said “There are no second acts in American lives.” but there are certainly second acts when it comes to Fitzgerald’s own classic “The Great Gatsby.” Fitting for a story about reinvention, The Great Gatsby has been adapted to the screen and stage countless times. Now the American Repertory Theater is bringing it to life in a world premiere musical “Gatsby: an American Myth.” The score is by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett and the book is by Martyna Majok,

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May 15, 2024 - Miranda July, Ekua Holmes, and the...

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2024/05/15

Miranda July, a triple threat in the art world as an innovative visual artist, filmmaker, and writer has just released a new novel titled “All Fours.” It’s a coming-of-middle-age story about a married woman who is either experiencing a turning point or is turning her world upside down when she derails a solo road trip by abruptly checking into and staying at a highway motel. She joins The Culture Show to talk about it and her creative process.From there we look at another innovative

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May 14, 2024 - "Touching the Void", Colm Tóibín, and...

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2024/05/14

Climbing a mountain is a metaphor frequently used to describe something that seems insurmountable. For the Chelsea-based Apollinaire Theatre Company, they are both figuratively and literally climbing a mountain in their latest production “Touching the Void.” The play involves a climbable mountain, a Scottish pub, a base camp, and the ever-present void. Two of the actors starring in this production, Parker Jennings and Patrick O’Konis, join us to talk about taking theater to new

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May 13, 2024 - Kerri Greenidge, the BSO, and LexSeeHer

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2024/05/13

The landmark Supreme Court case that struck down racial segregation in public schools helped to dismantle the legal apparatus of white supremacy. It also prompted a civil rights movement. With This Friday marking the 70th anniversary of this ruling, Kerri Greenidge, associate professor in history and in the department of race, colonialism, and diaspora at Tufts University, joins us to talk about its legacy and limitations. From there we look at racial imbalance in another realm,

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May 10, 2024 - Week in Review: Eurovision protests,...

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2024/05/10

Today Culture Show co hosts Callie Crossley, Edgar B. Herwick III and Jared Bowen go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review, which includes Eurovision. in 2019 Tel Aviv hosted the song contest. Now, amid Israel’s war on Gaza, the Olympics of pop music is politically charged as pro-Palestinian protesters denounce Israel’s participation. And we remember the inventive artist, who even reinvented himself, Frank Stella. Born in Malden, he found outsized success in

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May 9, 2024 - Jane Schoenbrun, William Forsythe, and...

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2024/05/09

The new film “I Saw the TV Glow” is a complex exploration of childhood nostalgia and how it can haunt us into adulthood. It also explores the irresistible pull of pop culture. Writer and director Jane Schoenbrun joins The Culture Show ahead of their Saturday appearance at the Coolidge to receive their Breakthrough Artist Award, which spotlights the next generation of filmmaking talent. From there we talk to another innovator, William Forsythe. He is known internationally as one of the

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May 8, 2024 - Spiritus/Virgil's Dance, lilacs, and...

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2024/05/08

Is it the human condition to take life for granted? Do we need to be confronted with death as a way to acknowledge life, appreciate life and to find meaning in life? These are both metaphysical and matter-of-fact questions that are central to Dael Orlandersmith’s solo play “Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance.”It is described as being in conversation with Dante’s Divine Comedy, where Virgil guides Dante’s journey through hell and purgatory. In Orlandersmith’s hands, Virgil is an adrift 20 something

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May 7, 2024: AJ Jacobs, Amanda Shea, and Porchfest

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2024/05/07

From guns to reproductive rights, the majority of Supreme Court justices think we should follow the original intentions of the Constitution as closely as possible. So what does that mean in modern-day America? Writer A.J. Jacobs went to find out.In his latest book, “The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning.” Jacobs documents living as closely to the original meaning of the Constitution as possible, which includes

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May 6, 2024 - Reginald Dwayne Betts and Porsha Olayiwola

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2024/05/06

When Reginald Dwayne Betts was 16 years old, he was an honors student. He was also arrested for carjacking. Prosecuted as an adult, he spent eight years in a Virginia prison, existing among grown up men. What got him through those years behind bars? Books. Betts left prison a poet; he then became an Ivy League-educated Lawyer and now he’s on a mission to bring libraries into prisons with a first-of-its kind organization called “Freedom Reads.” He joins The Culture Show to talk about how

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May 3, 2024 - Week in Review: Public art, the Mona...

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2024/05/03

Today on The Culture Show co hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest arts and culture headlines on our week-in-review. First up, Boston will host its first ever public art triennial. A year from now the city will be populated by public art from international superstars to locally renowned artists. From there, disappointed museum goers are putting the moan in Mona Lisa. The Louvre has plans to move da Vinci’s masterpiece underground so that audiences

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May 2, 2024 - ArtLords, City Hall, and the Worcester...

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2024/05/02

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, creating art was dangerous. The Taliban disapproved of music and banned all artistic representations of the human form. They saw art as an expression of protest and resistance. After their reign, when Afghanistan functioned as an open society, art flourished. But since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, after the final US troops left Afghanistan, art has literally been wiped out and artists are again being oppressed.Driven by the

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May 1, 2024 - Back to the Future, Joywalk Fenway, and...

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2024/05/01

In 1985 Marty McFly skateboarded onto the silver screen –and into cinematic history– with the blockbuster, “Back to The Future.” In this sci-fi classic, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown turns a DeLorean into a plutonium-powered time machine.Then, in an experiment gone awry, Marty McFly finds himself taking a ride of his lifetime, going back to 1955 where he meets his parents when they were teenagers. Now in 2024 audiences can time travel back to nineteen eighty five by way of “Back to the

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April 30, 2024 - Robert Jan van Pelt, Boston Design...

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2024/04/30

What’s past doesn’t need to be prologue. That is the point of the exhibition “Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away,” – to learn about the atrocities of the Holocaust so that history is not repeated. From the concrete posts used to fence in the camp, to a gas mask used by SS garrison members, to the suitcases and journals belonging to the prisoners– hundreds of original artifacts tell the horrors of those who suffered and were killed at Auschwitz during World War II. The exhibition is

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April 29, 2024: Oliver da la Paz, Pope Francis, and...

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2024/04/29

Today we continue to celebrate national poetry month with Oliver de la Paz. He is the poet laureate of Worcester and an associate professor at The College of the Holy Cross. His latest collection of poetry “The Diaspora Sonnets,” is winner of the New England Book Award for Poetry. These sonnets illuminate the immigrant experience with meditations on the meaning of home and family bonds. They reflect on the role of memory and nostalgia, and the power that looking forward has when forging a

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April 26, 2024: Museums, Halls of Fame, and Johnny Cash

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2024/04/26

Today on The Culture Show, it's our arts and culture week in review. First up, the culture of Hollywood shifted in the years following the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the launch of the #MeToo movement. So what will the reverberations throughout the industry be now that his New York rape conviction has been overturned?From there, Jerry Seinfeld says that Hollywood is a has been, declaring that movies are no longer a cultural superpower.And, the climate activist group Extinction

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April 25, 2024- Keith Lockhart, Earth art, and hot sauce

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2024/04/25

Boston POPS conductor Keith Lockhart is here with a preview of their star-studded Spring Season, from Harry Connick Jr, and Brandford Marsalis, to Pride night, Gospel night and a Jurassic Park concert along the way. Performances that are sure to put a spring in your step.From there, it’s a message in a mural. In East Boston, public art is making a splash by way of a series of large-scale murals that emphasize the natural world and the need to protect it. Culture Show contributor Julia

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April 24, 2024 - Pencils, dance, and Chihuly

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2024/04/24

We’re putting a fine point on the pencil. Rendered ordinary by its utility and ubiquity, it does have a romantic origin story involving a lighting strike that unearthed graphite in the north of England. Even so the pencil endures as practical, and reliable. After all, when the tip breaks, just snap your Number 2 in two, and…you have two pencils. The fascinating story of the pencil is the subject and object of a new book.From there, so you think you can’t dance? A free Alvin Ailey

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April 23, 2024 - 25 Years of Mission Hill, Michael...

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2024/04/23

Marking the 25th anniversary of a cult classic.In 1999, the adult cartoon Mission Hill debuted. It focused on the misadventures of a group of disparate roommates. It was created by Simpsons writers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and earned a GLAAD award for their realistic portrayal of a gay couple. Alas, the show was doomed from the start thanks to a decidedly unsupportive network and dismal ratings. However, it did develop a cult following. Now Oakley and Weinstein are delighting fans

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April 22, 2024 - John Lam, Octavio González, and...

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2024/04/22

According to the laws of physics, a body in motion stays in motion. And for John Lam, he’s been in motion for nearly his entire life. But soon the Boston Ballet principal dancer will be approximating something like rest with the announcement that he is exiting the stage. He joins us to talk about his career, the decision to retire after a 20-year tenure with Boston Ballet, and what’s next.From there, we continue our national poetry month celebration with poet and Wellesley professor

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