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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 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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April 19, 2024 - Week in Review: the Biennale, Faith...

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2024/04/19

Coming up: Our arts and culture week in review.First up, the Venice Biennale– Artist Jeffrey Gibson, with his riot of color, is the first ever Indigenous artist selected to represent the United States; At the Israeli pavilion, artist Ruth Patir, won’t open her show until “a cease-fire and hostage release agreement is reached; And the German Pavilion, which has been described as creepy and enchanting is a hit for its freak out factor.Then we remember groundbreaking artist Faith Ringgold

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April 18, 2024 - Leslie Odom Jr, Chad Smith, and the...

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2024/04/18

Leslie Odom, Jr. The award winning actor and singer’s portrayal of Aaron Burr in the hit musical “Hamilton,” gave us a new way to think about America’s history and the fathers who founded it. And if history doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes. In his recent return to Broadway, Odom starred in a play that skewers racism in America in the Broadway revival of “Purlie Victorious.” Music remains at his core though–which he discusses ahead of his Boston concert.From there, we talk to Chad Smith,

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April 17, 2024 - Gordon Clapp, Alison Bechdel, and...

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2024/04/17

The road frequently traveled. Emmy award-winning actor Gordon Clapp brings Robert Frost back to life in a one-man show. We talk to him about reprising the role of the acclaimed poet –one he’s performed over 100 times. From there it’s the writer and cartoonist Alison Bechdel. More than 40 years ago she inadvertently created the “Bechdel Test,” a way to gauge gender representation in Hollywood - - a cultural touchstone that is still relevant. She joins us to talk about this, the adaptation

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April 16, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, the Boston...

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2024/04/16

In Boston people of color are disproportionately affected by environmental disasters, climate change and pollution. With April being Earth month, Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins us to talk about what needs to be done to achieve racial justice through climate justice.From there, the Boston Public Quartet’s radical welcome. It’s their biggest event of the year, offering a multi-sensory experience and truly welcoming all, with a pay what you want style

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April 15, 2024 - Ruth Carter and Michael Cunningham

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2024/04/15

In 2019 costume designer Ruth E. Carter won her first Academy Award for her work in the 2018 film, “Black Panther,” where she created the Afrofuturist aesthetic of Wakanda. Super-heroism clearly runs in the family. Only four years later, Ruth E. Carter became a superhero in her own right, earning her second Oscar for her work in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” She made history with this win, not only as the first Black woman to receive two Academy Awards, but as the first person to win

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April 12, 2024 - Week in Review: OJ Simpson, Curb...

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2024/04/12

Coming up on The Culture Show, live from the GBH studio at the Boston Public Library, it’s our arts and culture week in review. First up, the cultural influence of OJ SImpson. First, as “The Juice,” a star football player who ran through the field with almost unmatched success. Then as the actor who starred in Hertz commercials and hit movies. Finally, as the man who was acquitted in the grisly murders of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her companion Ron Goldman, in the “trial of the

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April 11, 2024 - Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young

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2024/04/11

Through her poetry, Tracy K. Smith probes the meaning of life, she meditates on what happens to our souls when we die, she communes with the dead. She uses poetry to explore her own role in the world as a mother, making the personal profound. Her poems also scrutinize historical racial oppression, the paradox that is the American dream, and the injustices that plague our nation. All of these themes come together in her lyrical, haunting and ultimately hopeful new book, “To Free the

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April 10, 2024 - Hallyu!, Michael Jackson tribute...

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2024/04/10

The Korean wave makes a big splash in Boston.A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts is a high amp historical remix of Korean culture and pop culture. It’s a celebration of everything South Korea has to offer, from K-Pop to K-dramas, from fine art to fashion. And the dynamism of this show originates from the juxtaposition of traditional customs with the fast-paced, innovative society that South Korea is today. All that AND the opportunity to get your full K-Pop dance on–right inside the

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