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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.
Episodes
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July 16, 2024 - The Million Year Picnic at 50, the Lowell Folk Festival, and Sea Monsters
The Million Year Picnic is the oldest comic book store in New England and since the 1970’s it’s been a fixture in Harvard Square. This summer it marks its 50th…
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July 15, 2024 - Kneecap, BosTix, and Jane Eaglen
Kneecap, a Belfast-based rap group known for their fiery social and political commentary is on the rise…with a new album and biopic starring Michael…
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July 12, 2024 - Week in Review: Orchestral report cards, Shelley Duvall, and songs of the summer
Today on The Culture Show, co-hosts Edgar B. Herwick III, Callie Crossley and James Bennett II go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture…
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July 11, 2024 - Muppets in Moscow and Jeremy Eichler
In her book, Muppets in Moscow, Natasha Lance Rogoff pulls back the iron curtain on what it was like to work in Russia as a TV producer in the 1990’s. There…
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July 10, 2024 - Quilling, the Boston Ballet, and Joyce Kulhawik
Quilling is the ancient art of coiling long strips of paper around a needle–or going back to its namesake– around a quill. In a twist of fate, Huong Wolf has…
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July 9, 2024 - Art prescriptions, Shark Week, and Pedro Alonzo
What is a prescription for anxiety or isolation that doesn't need FDA approval and won’t get churned through big pharma to drive up prices? Art and culture…
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July 8, 2024 - Ben Shattuck, jumping the shark, and Shakespeare on the Common
Ben Shattuck’s latest book, “The History of Sound: Stories” is a collection of interconnected stories that examine the lives and landscapes of New England…
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July 5, 2024 - Fat Ham and The Shark Is Broken
Today on The Culture Show, The play “Fat Ham.” It’s a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where the court of Denmark is transported to a backyard…
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July 4, 2024 - The Boston Tea Party, AJ Jacobs, and LexSeeHer
Coming up on The Culture Show…. We are steeped in American history, starting with the Boston Tea Party. Fed up with the tyranny of taxation without…
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July 3, 2024 - Jazz at the Omni, the Boomin' Beaver, and the Cricket World Cup
Will Dailey is an independent recording artist, performer and artist advocate. He’s won numerous Boston Music awards, including best album and best artist…
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July 2, 2024 - Poetry in America, Denée Benton, and Jaws at the Brattle
Poetry often has a stigma that’s hard to shake. That it’s inscrutable, elite and out of reach. Even with the rhyming. And brevity. But give poetry a chance…
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July 1, 2024 - Frederick Douglass, rare books at the BPL, and Boston's Harborfest
“What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?” That is the question Frederick Douglass posed to an audience of abolitionists at an event commemorating…
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June 28, 2024 - Week in Review: Boston theatre, international art, and Will Smith
Mfoniso Udofia. Frustrated as an actor when she didn’t see roles reflecting her or her reality, she picked up the pen, and never let go. In total she wrote a…
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June 27, 2024 - Danza Organica, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, and Shaker design
Danza Orgánica, a Boston-based dance company, has been collaborating with members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag in a performance that explores the indigenous…
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June 26, 2024 - Sheila E, sports and art, and Queer AF
Percussionist and vocalist .Sheila E. is known for her solo work and her collaborations with Prince, and a setlist that spans R&B, Funk, Jazz, and Latin Pop…
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June 25, 2024 - Boston theatre, Black history in the Gilded Age, and Sebastian Junger
Today on The Culture Show, contributor Joyce Kulhawik goes over the latest plays and movies to take in. She’s an Emmy-award winning arts and entertainment…
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June 24, 2024 - The Museum of Bad Art, Dirty Old Boston, and BAMSFest
On The Culture Show we talk a lot about museums and their efforts to be more accessible, but that has been the mission of the Museum of Bad Art. Since its…
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June 21, 2024 - Week in Review: Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and the Tonys
Today on The Culture Show, co-hosts Callie Crossley, Edgar B. Herwick III and James Bennett II go over the latest arts and culture headlines on our…
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June 20, 2024 - Audra McDonald and Leslie Odom Jr.
Summertime, and the living is easy. Or, if you’re Audra McDonald, you make it look and sound easy. The award winning singer and actor earned her fifth – of a…
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June 19, 2024 - Tracy K. Smith and Phyllis Wheatley
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…
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June 18, 2024 - Juneteenth and the Mars Symphony
Juneteenth is the annual commemoration marking the end of slavery in the United States. The name is derived from the date June 19, 1865, when Major General…
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June 17, 2024 - More Than Our Skin and Alan Cumming
In the documentary film “More Than Our Skin,” five women share their stories about what it’s like to live with vitiligo, an autoimmune disease in which the…
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June 14, 2024 - Week in Review: Jay-Z, Jerry West, and the Kendrick craze
Today on The Culture Show co-hosts Callie Crossley, James Bennett II and Edgar B. Herwick III cover the latest headlines on our arts and culture…
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June 13, 2024 - Salvatore Del Deo and Rebecca Bradshaw
Salvatore Del Deo is a contemporary painter whose 75-year career has been inspired by the light of Provincetown, the landscape, particularly the dunes, and the…
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June 12, 2024 - Jo Clifford and Django in June
Playwright Jo Clifford performed the first production of her one-woman show, “The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven,” in 2009. The play reimagines the…
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June 11, 2024 - Ken Field and the Roxbury Int'l Film Festival
Ken Field is a composer, flautist, saxophonist and the leader of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble–a New Orleans inspired brass band, which is marking its 35th…
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June 10, 2024 - Movies in Massachusetts
What do you call three lost souls left on a prep school campus during the holidays? The holdovers. That’s also the title of Alexander Payne’s film. Set in the…
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June 7, 2024 - Week in Review: University of the Arts closing, Hollywood, and concert cancellations
Today on The Culture Show it’s our arts and culture week-in-review. GBH’s Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley, and Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons, who is…
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June 6, 2024 - AI in music, Bonsai trees, and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
Berklee College of Music and the Audio Engineering Society are hosting an inaugural international symposium at Berklee on AI in music, exploring the benefits…
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June 5, 2024 - The Dybbuk, baseball, and the housing crisis
What does it mean to be a restless soul in-between two worlds? That is the definition of a dybbuk. With an ongoing immigration crisis and refugees displaced by…
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June 4, 2024 - Juneteenth in Boston, Hew Locke, and summer on the Boston waterfront
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…
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June 3, 2024 - Robert Pinsky, Already Dead, and a diva discussion
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…
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May 31, 2024 - Week in Review: Josh Gibson, Richard Dreyfuss, and endangered art
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…
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May 30, 2024 - Denis and Ann Leary, Thorgy Thor, and the Lot Lab 2024
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…
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May 29, 2024 - Mary Grant, Louise Nevelson, and Claudio Ragazzi
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…
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May 28, 2024 - Percival Everett, art in Seaport, and the Bachfest Leipzig
Writer Percival Everett’s satire verges on prophecy. He is prolific–he has written westerns, mysteries, thrillers, and collections of poetry. You likely…
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May 27, 2024 - Anthony Roth Costanzo and Diana Dizoglio
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…
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May 24, 2024 - Week in Review: Apple's Top 100 Albums, the NCAA settlement, and the NYC-Dublin Portal
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…
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May 23, 2024 - The Boston Lyric Opera, Lorraine O'Grady, and Toni Stone
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…
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May 22, 2024 - Aaron Lansky, James Bennett II, and the Boston Triennial
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…
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May 21, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, theo tyson, and a Boston Calling preview
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…
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May 20, 2024 - Ethan Hawke, Young Black Woman | Old White Man, and parenting
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…
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May 17, 2024 - Week in Review: King Charles' portrait, Black Twitter, and the Dublin-NYC portal
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…
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May 16, 2024 - Martyna Majok, the Nakba in photographs, and film
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…
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May 15, 2024 - Miranda July, Ekua Holmes, and the Elliot Norton Awards
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…
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May 14, 2024 - "Touching the Void", Colm Tóibín, and The Plastic Bag Store
Climbing a mountain is a metaphor frequently used to describe something that seems insurmountable. For the Chelsea-based Apollinaire Theatre Company, they are…
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May 13, 2024 - Kerri Greenidge, the BSO, and LexSeeHer
The landmark Supreme Court case that struck down racial segregation in public schools helped to dismantle the legal apparatus of white supremacy. It also…
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May 10, 2024 - Week in Review: Eurovision protests, Frank Stella, and zombies in Worcester
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…
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May 9, 2024 - Jane Schoenbrun, William Forsythe, and the West Newton Cinema
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…
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May 8, 2024 - Spiritus/Virgil's Dance, lilacs, and Isabella Stewart Gardner
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…
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May 7, 2024: AJ Jacobs, Amanda Shea, and Porchfest
From guns to reproductive rights, the majority of Supreme Court justices think we should follow the original intentions of the Constitution as closely as…
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May 6, 2024 - Reginald Dwayne Betts and Porsha Olayiwola
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…
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May 3, 2024 - Week in Review: Public art, the Mona Lisa, and Kendrick v. Drake
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…
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May 2, 2024 - ArtLords, City Hall, and the Worcester Symphony Orchestra
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, creating art was dangerous. The Taliban disapproved of music and banned all artistic representations of…
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May 1, 2024 - Back to the Future, Joywalk Fenway, and Mahesh Daas
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…
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April 30, 2024 - Robert Jan van Pelt, Boston Design Week, and Ngoc-Tran Vu
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…
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April 29, 2024: Oliver da la Paz, Pope Francis, and Adam Gardner
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…
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April 26, 2024: Museums, Halls of Fame, and Johnny Cash
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…
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April 25, 2024- Keith Lockhart, Earth art, and hot sauce
Boston POPS conductor Keith Lockhart is here with a preview of their star-studded Spring Season, from Harry Connick Jr, and Branford Marsalis, to Pride night…
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April 24, 2024 - Pencils, dance, and Chihuly
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…