Category Archives: Life

Arts Express Conversation Classics

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We’ve been putting together a fundraising show for WBAI, Arts Express’s parent radio station, so that’s what we’ve been up to in the last few weeks. We dived deep into the Arts Express archives and put together a fantastic flash drive with some classic interviews done by host Prairie Miller as a donation premium. In order to pitch it, we ran a show last night that contained some excerpts from some of those interviews, which you may enjoy listening to. The show contains pieces of interviews with Queen Latifah, RFK Jr., The Rolling Stones, Isabel Allende, and Mike Africa Jr. Click on the triangle or mp3 link above, in order to hear the program as broadcast last night on WBAI FM NYC.

When I’m Sixty Four: The Meetles

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Monday morning, meet the Meetles, NYC’s favorite Beatles cover band, on a beautiful day in Central Park at Strawberry Fields, across the street from the Dakota, the building where John and Yoko lived.

Thanks to Stuart M.

Dear Brooklyn,

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“Dear Brooklyn,

I love you. Continue to allow everyone to be who they are, to be free, and to be different. Not only should you step outside the box, but make sure to jump on it and kick it until it breaks . Most of all, maintain the love and joy that is in your city walls. You are beautiful just the way you are.

Yours, Anonymous human being

P.S. Please remember to take out the trash!”

Seeley Street,

Brooklyn, New York

Letter From Julian Assange

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“You may have not read about the letter that was released at the time of Charles’s coronation from Julian Assange to Charles. It’s a short letter, but an extraordinary one….”

Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my piece on Assange’s letter to Charles, as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program, heard on WBAI-FM and Pacifica stations across the nation 

Dame Edna

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The brilliant Australian comedian Barry Humphries died a few week ago. He was known for the wild characters he created including Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone, but his most famous one was the one and only Dame Edna Everidge. Here is Dame Edna on the Michael Parkinson Show.

Thanks to YouTuber ppotter

Rainy Day People: Gordon Lightfoot

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RIP Gordon Lightfoot. One of the handful–very small handful, IMO–of musicians whose recordings were the complete package–great melodies, lyrics, singing, guitar playing, and arrangements. I was lucky enough to see him in concert in the early 70s. I think If You Could Read My Mind is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded, but here’s a more upbeat song.

More at Gordon Lightfoot

Dirty Work

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The opening quote of this book Dirty Work by Eyal Press is from James Baldwin which says, “The powerless must do their own dirty work. The Powerful have it done for them”–which is a simple yet devastating analysis of what power really means.

Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my review of Dirty Work as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the country.