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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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April 23, 2024 - 25 Years of Mission Hill, Michael Threets, and Florence Price
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…
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April 22, 2024 - John Lam, Octavio González, and Pedro Alonzo
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…
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April 19, 2024 - Week in Review: the Biennale, Faith Ringgold, and Billy Joel
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…
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April 18, 2024 - Leslie Odom Jr, Chad Smith, and the legacy of the Drop Nineteens
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…
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April 17, 2024 - Gordon Clapp, Alison Bechdel, and Janie Barnett
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…
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April 16, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, the Boston Public Quartet, and Children of Ukraine
In Boston people of color are disproportionately affected by environmental disasters, climate change and pollution. With April being Earth month, Imari Paris…
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April 15, 2024 - Ruth Carter and Michael Cunningham
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…
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April 12, 2024 - Week in Review: OJ Simpson, Curb your Enthusiasm, and Museum Mischief
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…
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April 11, 2024 - Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young
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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April 10, 2024 - Hallyu!, Michael Jackson tribute concert, and Brockton High's drama club
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…
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April 9, 2024
Anthony Rapp, the actor and singer, went from being a Starbucks Barista to a Broadway star by way of the hit musical “Rent.” But, his meteoric rise was…
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April 8, 2024
In 1970, when Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” first opened on Broadway, his main character Bobby was a 35-year old unmarried man, whose paired-up friends…
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April 5, 2024 - Week in Review: Lizzo, Women's March Madness, and AI
Live from the GBH studio at the Boston Public Library, it’s our arts and culture week in review. First up, A Tik Toker’s hot take lands her in hot water for…
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April 4, 2024 - AI Art, the Eclipse in Vermont, and Lizzy Shapiro
In creative circles, there are artists who worry that Artificial Intelligence could replace them. Not roboticist and artist Alexander Reben– he’s entered the…
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April 3, 2024 - Jeff Beal, James Brown in Boston, and American infrastructure
The Emmy award-winning composer Jeff Beal. You might not know it, but you’ve heard his work. He gave us the theme song to “House of Cards,” which became an…
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April 2, 2024
Comedian and actor Chris Fleming. He has a comedy special streaming on Peacock, a YouTube Channel with a cult following and he’s selling out comedy venues –…
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April 1, 2024 - Padma Lakshmi and Muppets in Moscow
Padma Lakshmi. She’s been on a quest to learn how food is entwined with our history and culture. From inviting us into her kitchen, to entering the kitchens of…
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March 29, 2024
Live from the Boston Public Library, it’s our arts and culture week in review. Beyonce gives new meaning to “Midnight Cowboy,” dropping her much-anticipated…
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March 28, 2024
The street artist Shephard Fairey officially crossed the threshold into fine art with his first museum exhibition–right here at the Institute of Contemporary…
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March 27, 2024
He contains multitudes: an actor, singer, writer– a bon vivant with boundless energy. That would be the Tony-Award winning Alan Cumming. It’s impossible to…
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March 26, 2024
Sarah and Angelina Grimke are admired in American history for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in the south to become activists in the North…
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March 25, 2024
Today on The Culture Show: Lights. Camera. Action. This Wednesday the Coolidge Corner Theatre is opening its new 14,000 square foot addition to the public…
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March 22, 2024
First up, we mark the 34th anniversary of the Gardner Museum theft. It’s the ultimate whodunnit in the world of art heists, with the stolen works valued at…
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March 21, 2024 - Message in a Bottle, living with vitiligo, and the BSO's Wayne Shorter gift card
What happens when you mix Sting’s greatest hits with the power of hip-hop dance? You get “Message in a Bottle.” It’s a fusion dreamed up by Kate Prince, one of…
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March 20, 2024
Growing up in Venezuela, artist Miguel Braceli could not express queer love. Today he’s in Provincetown, wrapping up an artist residency program at the Fine…
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March 19, 2024 - Cost of Living, Dill, and Historic New England
In the play “Cost of Living,” now onstage in Boston, four characters find themselves isolated from society–cut off by poverty, by physical disabilities and by…
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March 18, 2024
August Wilson’s monumental Century Cycle is a collection of 10 dramas chronicling the black experience in America, one set during each decade of the 20th…
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March 15, 2024
Coming up, it’s our arts and culture Week in Review. First up, could Governor Healey be giving new meaning to Taxachusetts? By proposing a live theater tax…
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March 14, 2024 - Kneecap, Katherine Goforth, and Pi Day
Vocalist Katherine Goforth. When she came out as a transgender woman and transitioned, she wasn’t sure if she would ever work in opera again. Opera can be…
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March 13, 2024 - Traveling while blind, Ronan Noone, and Nicholas Payton
What is it like to travel the world as a blind person–navigating different cultures, traditions and transportation systems? That’s what Dr. Mona Minkara…
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March 12, 2024 - Girl from the North Country, Celtic Woman, and Springsteen
The Irish dramatist Conor McPherson wrote and directed a play incorporating 20 songs by Bob Dylan. This is no jukebox musical. And though it is set in Dylan’s…
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March 11, 2024 - Oscars recap, Woodstock and The Minutes
Oppenheimer was the bomb at last night's Oscars, winning seven awards including best picture, best actor and best director. Joyce Kulhawik and Lisa Simmons are…
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March 8, 2024 - Week in Review: Hollywood, RuPaul, and TV/film merch
Coming up on The Culture Show, it’s our Arts and Culture Week-in-Review First up, could the State House become more of an art house? Governor Maura Healey has…
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March 7, 2024
From Abigail Adams, to grandmothers, to the brains that made breakthroughs in science, we’re marking Women’s History Month with the monuments and murals in…
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March 6, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, 70mm film, and AI
What should reparations in Boston look like? A new report from Embrace Boston suggests that repairing generations of inequality and inequity will take more…
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March 5, 2024
Coming up on The Culture Show: scaling down Ibsen’s sprawling five act play to a mere 75 minutes. That’s the challenge writer, director and composer Bill…
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March 4, 2024 - Father Columba Stewart, the best book of 1924, and Stephen McCauley
Father Columba Stewart. He is a Benedictine monk and scholar who travels the most volatile parts of the world to rescue and protect ancient documents. As we…
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March 1, 2024
“The Band's Visit” is one of the most captivating musicals about…nothing. The Tony-winning show follows the adventures of a touring Egyptian band stranded in…
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February 29, 2024
We cross into the underworld by way of “Eurydice.” It’s a hell raising opera, truly. With music by Matthew Aucoin and based on the play “Eurydice,” by Sarah…
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February 28, 2024
Understanding American history means knowing Black history. And in Boston, that history has been made more visible by way of the African American Trail…
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February 27, 2024
Coming up on The Culture Show: does Washington have policy down to a fine art? The White House convened its first-ever arts summit, working with artists and…
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February 26, 2024 - Talking books behind bars with Reginald Dwayne Betts
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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February 23, 2024
It’s our arts and culture week in review. Beyonce does the Texas two step onto the country music charts, landing the top spot with her hit “Texas Hold Em. And…
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February 22, 2024 - Audra McDonald, Igor Golyak, and the Grand Kyiv Ballet
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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February 21, 2024
Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola joins us to mark Black History Month. We’ll discuss her poem inspired by the book Beloved and a mother’s agonizing…
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February 20, 2024
I’m Jared Bowen, this is The Culture Show. In Gish Jen’s latest book, “Thank You Mr. Nixon,” Jen writes about US-China Relations. Today she joins us from…
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February 19, 2024
It’s hard to imagine Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art without the visionary Jill Medvedow, but that’s what we have to do–she’s stepping down at the end…
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February 16, 2024
It’s our arts and culture week in-review and we’ll start with some Friday afternoon quarterbacking: looking at the cultural touchdowns that were made during…
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February 15, 2024
From the poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, to the technicolor tapestries of Napoleon Jones-Henderson, to Terry Lynne Carrington’s contemporary beats, Boston’s Black…
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February 14, 2024
Composer Joseph Schwantner’s “New Morning for the World” is bold and buoyant and as eloquent as the words it honors–from selected texts by Dr. Martin Luther…
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February 13, 2024
Artist Wu Tsang goes deep on Moby Dick, literally and figuratively with an immersive film installation that takes us into the depths of the ocean. But her…
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February 12, 2024
The US Military and the Smithsonian have revived a version of “the monuments-men.-”-- the group of soldiers and military personnel who recovered cultural…
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February 9, 2024
Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly 30 years. Taking it from the 20th to the 21st century. He was a force–a maverick whose awesome talent…
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February 8, 2024
For Nadia Liu Spellman and her mother Sally Ling, food is family. Sally Ling is behind one of the first fine dining Chinese restaurants in America. Her famed…
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February 7, 2024
In the latest adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, the star crossed lovers get that much closer to the stars– leaping, bounding, backflipping and flying high by way…
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February 6, 2024
Clothes don’t make the man, they make the movie. Now that we are deep into Oscars season, who better to talk two than Academy Award-winning costume designer…
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February 5, 2024
Playwright Samuel D. Hunter writes about existential struggles. A rising star, he became widely known for “The Whale,” the critically acclaimed play that he…
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February 2, 2024
It’s our arts and culture week-in-review. First up, it’s pumpkin soup for the protester’s soul. The Mona Lisa is the latest masterpiece to be slimed in the…
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February 1, 2024
Tina Turner, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie….to have seen these legends perform –and hundreds of others– is one thing. To make a career out of covering them…
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January 31, 2024
The British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen forced us to look at the atrocities of slavery in his film, “12 Years a Slave.” An offshoot of that undertaking…