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One of my favorite jazz singers.
Thanks to YouTuber jorge perez
Let’s Fall In Love: Anita O’Day
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Goose-Stepping
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Mary Spender’s Church Bells
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Monday morning, crack guitar player, singer, songwriter, and videomaker Mary Spender takes us behind the scenes to her castle, as she gives us a backstage explanation of how she put together her Romeo-and-Juliet influenced music video with zero crew. A really fascinating look at what talent and resourcefulness can do. Oh, and add camera drone operator to that list.
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Either/Or
“If I Were A Man…”
In our Arts Express Playhouse, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman is best known for her novella The Yellow Wallpaper, but she also wrote hundreds of other short stories. The one I’m reading above, “If I Were a Man,” was written in 1914, before women even had the right to vote in the US, but it seems a whole lot more modern.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear the story as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio show, heard on WBAI-FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
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Night Light
Honey Pie
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Josh Turner and Alison Young have some fun with the Beatles take-off on a music hall song, “Honey Pie.”
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Every British Nature Show
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Our comedy fave Eleanor Morton with a hilarious send-up of the cozy backyard British nature kind of television series.
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My Blue Heron
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Great Blue Heron
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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International Weigh-In
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Monday Morning, Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr and People for Change come together virtually with musicians from all over the world to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Robertson’s masterpiece.
Thanks to YouTuber Playing For Change
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“Bloody Greta Garbo”: Pete and Dud
Gun Show!
The American mass obsession with guns is clearly unique and filmmaker Richard Chisolm has made an intriguing short documentary called Gun Show which details one artist’s attempt to come to grips with the national gun worship.
Click on the triangle above or the mp3 link to hear my review as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program heard on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
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Starry Starry Night…
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Don McLean’s haunting “Vincent,” as performed by Mona and Lisa Wagner, the MonaLisa Twins
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Park Bench Poem
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Triple Threat: Sophie Duker
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Funny, smart comedian, Sophie Duker is new to me. Quite adept at walking a fine line. The Apollo is a comedy club in Hammersmith, England.
Thanks to YouTuber ArseRaptor
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Efficiency Expert
Sister Golden Hair
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Monday morning, a pretty great cover of the America favorite.
Reina del Cid and extended band including banjo, mandolin, and dobro.
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Swimsuit Issue
My Old School: Alan Cumming And Jono McLeod On The Great School Hoaxer
In 1995, the students of a secondary school in Scotland, found out they were the victims of a hoax. Their popular student companion of the previous year, Brandon Lee, turned out not to be who he seemed to be, but an imposter. Now, one of those school students, Jono McLeod, who grew up to be a filmmaker, has made a film that takes that shaggy dog story further yet, as Jono and his former school companions investigate the effect that the student they knew as Brandon Lee had on all of them. And in a virtuoso turn, Alan Cumming plays the camera-shy Brandon.
I was very happy to interview the director of the film, My Old School, Jono McLeod, and its star, Alan Cumming, for Arts Express radio heard on WBAI-FM NYC and Pacifica stations across the nation.
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The Red Shoes
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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The Circle Game
Joni Mitchell, 78 years old, appeared this week at the Newport Folk Festival–her first public concert for 20 years. She’s had an aneurysm and other health problems, but with a little help from her friends (Brandi Carlile, Wynona Judd) she sang, among other songs, “Both Sides Now,” “Summertime,” and the song above, a very touching “The Circle Game.”
Thanks to YouTuber Amy Karibian
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Medieval Estate Agent
One thing you can say for comedian Eleanor Morton–she has the field of Scottish medieval humor pretty much to herself. And she’s funny!
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So Hot, Even The Pigeons Are At The Beach
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Plumb Beach,
Brooklyn, New York
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Summertime
Monday morning, as you swelter, keep cool with Ira and George Gershwin as channeled by Billy Strings and Marcus King.
Thanks to YouTuber Carter Vintage Guitars
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The Thief of Bad Gags
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Magic fans will enjoy this parody film poster advertising the Golden Gate Gathering, a magic convention organized by Anthony Miller and Rosie Rings.
Magician Kent Gunn explains on the Genii forum that Rosie and Tony are both huge movie poster aficionados. and that they’ve come up with Rosie-fied old movie posters for the GGG for several years.
Thanks to Kent Gunn for the photo of the poster.
