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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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June 4, 2024 - Juneteenth in Boston, Hew Locke, and...

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2024/06/04

Embrace Boston is gearing up for its third annual gathering to celebrate Juneteenth with the Boston community, and it promises to be more than an event but a conversation about reimaging Boston ahead of its 400th Birthday. Plus, no festival would be complete without a block party, DJ’s and dancing. Imari Paris Jeffries, CEO and President of Embrace Boston, joins The Culture Show for a preview. From there carnival and colonialism converge in “The Procession,” a large-scale installation

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June 3, 2024 - Robert Pinsky, Already Dead, and a...

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2024/06/03

The three-time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky joins us to talk about his new book of poetry, “Proverbs of Limbo.” His book launch is June 11th at the Cambridge Public Library at an event presented by Harvard Book Store.Robert Pinsky is the author of “At The Foundling Hospital”, “The Figured Wheel” and “The Want Bone.” He is also a professor in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University,From there we talk to Dan Cummings, the lead singer of local punk band “Already

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May 31, 2024 - Week in Review: Josh Gibson, Richard...

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2024/05/31

First up, Richard Dreyfuss didn’t just make waves, he sent shockwaves through Beverly’s Cabot Theater ahead of a special screening of “Jaws.” Offending audiences by spewing transphobic, misanthropic rhetoric. And it turns out this wasn’t the first time.From there it’s time to meet Josh Gibson, Major League Baseball’s new GREATEST OF ALL TIME PLAYER. With the MLB integrating statistics from the Negro Leagues, they’re also obliged to rewrite baseball’s history.Plus we remember Bill Walton,

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May 30, 2024 - Denis and Ann Leary, Thorgy Thor, and...

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2024/05/30

New York Times best-selling writer Ann Leary’s latest book is a collection of Essays titled “I’ve Tried Being Nice.” In total they are a reflection on her life…on the liberties that come with being older, on moments of mayhem and on scenes from a marriage that has had its ups and downs–on the tennis court, on the red carpet and behind closed doors. The essays are funny and frank. They are personal while also being very universal.Ann Leary and her husband Denis Leary – Worcester born actor

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May 29, 2024 - Mary Grant, Louise Nevelson, and...

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2024/05/29

On this episode of The Culture Show MassArt President Mary Grant joins us for her monthly appearance. Today she talks about the cost of college, if the expense is worth it and what higher-ed institutions need to do to meet incoming students where they are.From there we head to Colby College Museum of Art. Their head curator Beth Finch joins The Culture Show to give an overview of their current exhibit “The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury.” Finally, the Grammy and Emmy

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May 28, 2024 - Percival Everett, art in Seaport, and...

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2024/05/28

Writer Percival Everett’s satire verges on prophecy. He is prolific–he has written westerns, mysteries, thrillers, and collections of poetry. You likely recognize his name because of his book “Erasure,” the sardonic take on the publishing industry on which the film “American Fiction” was based.Everett’s latest book, titled “James,” is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” from the perspective of Jim, the novel’s enslaved runaway. Everett joins The Culture

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May 27, 2024 - Anthony Roth Costanzo and Diana Dizoglio

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2024/05/27

Today on The Culture Show it’s the pharaoh of the opera. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has made a name for himself starring in the MET’s production of Akhenaten – earning a Grammy award along the way.He’s also figuratively found his voice and the freedom to have fun by collaborating with cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond in their hit performance and accompanying album, “Only and Octave Apart”Now Anthony Roth Costanzo is performing it all–from cantatas to camp, in a one-man recital

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May 24, 2024 - Week in Review: Apple's Top 100...

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2024/05/24

Today on the Culture Show, Callie Crossley, James Bennett II and Edgar B Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review. The topics they discuss include, Scarlett Johansson’s feud with Open AI, Elvis Presley’s Graceland having a brush with foreclosure fraudsters, and Apple’s 100 best album list. They also look at a taco stand in Mexico City that has just received a Micehlin star, discussing if this is a burden or a blessing. Plus, they analyze how two

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May 23, 2024 - The Boston Lyric Opera, Lorraine...

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2024/05/23

When it comes to opera performances, Boston Lyric Opera is literally putting the wheels in motion. On June first the BLO is rolling out its “Street Stage Series” and by rolling out, we mean driving a semi-trailer that converts into a stage, which will travel to different neighborhoods throughout the summer, offering opera and popular music performances. The BLO’s Brad Vernatter, the Stanford Calderwood General Director and Nina Yoshida Nelsen, the BLO’s Artistic Director join The Culture

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May 22, 2024 - Aaron Lansky, James Bennett II, and...

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2024/05/22

Aaron Lansky is credited with saving a world of Yiddish literature, language and culture. It started in the late 1970’s when he was studying Yiddish literature at Mcgill University and was having a hard time finding the books he needed to pursue his scholarship. So he organized a nationwide network of volunteer book collectors and launched a campaign, now known as The Yiddish Book Center, to save the world’s surviving Yiddish books. At the time, it was estimated that there were 70,000

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May 21, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, theo tyson, and...

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2024/05/21

Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins The Culture Show every month.With Memorial Day approaching, we’re going to get his take on the role black military members have played in U.S. history, from emancipation to protecting our democracy, and how recent developments in local government are supporting Embrace Boston’s call for reparations. From there, we’re fashion forward, backward and everything in between. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is making a fashion

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May 20, 2024 - Ethan Hawke, Young Black Woman | Old...

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2024/05/20

Writer Flannery O’Connory was a devout Catholic. She grew up in Georgia and eventually lived on a farm among peacocks. She negotiated life under the threat of looming death because she had lupus. But her imagination took her elsewhere. Mostly to peculiar places, often violent ones, where prophets, sinners and outsiders sought truth and redemption.Now her biography, her characters and her life of the mind converge in the new film “Wildcat.” It’s directed by Ethan Hawke, he also

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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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