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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
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 30, 2024
Among the English courses being offered at Harvard this semester there’s “Sex, Gender and Shakespeare;” an exploration of British romantic poetry titled “Keats…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 29, 2024
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg secured a legacy as a crusader for women’s rights. Later in life she secured another legacy…as a vaunted cultural icon. She is…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 26, 2024
It’s our arts and culture week in review. First up, the Oscar nominations –the surprises, usual suspects, and snubs that are sparking controversy in…
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January 25, 2024
During her State of the City address, Mayor Michelle Wu made the personal policy. She talked about how formative it was, as a Chicago kid in a family of few…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 24, 2024
We’re wrapping up our series of interviews with the ICA’s 2023 Foster Prize Winners with artist Venetia Dale. As a metalsmith and sculptor, Dale’s work looks…
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January 23, 2024
The battle between the bomb and the blonde bombshell is over. Barbenhiemer has officially uncoupled with Oppenheimer dominating Barbie, earning 13 Oscar…
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January 22, 2024
Shostakovich’s opera, “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.” It made its premiere in 1934 and became an overnight sensation. Then it all but vanished after Stalin banned…
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January 19, 2024
First up, What do the alternative rock band R.E.M have in common with hip-hop giant and superproducer Timbaland? They’re both among this year’s Songwriters…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 18, 2024
When it comes to reality TV is there really such a thing as too many cooks in the kitchen? We’ll ask Chef Jason Santos, who enters another season of Hell’s…
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January 17, 2024
Just as cities were wrestling with America's history with slavery -- and the people and places tied to that past-- the legacy of Faneuil Hall came under…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 16, 2024
The plight of public defenders. How do seven beleaguered lawyers offset the burden of their Family Defense caseloads? And a fear that the judicial system won’t…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 15, 2024
Today marks the first anniversary of the unveiling of The Embrace on Boston Common. While the sculpture is a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott…
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January 12, 2024
The best things in life ARE free and in Boston, that includes the arts. This February Mayor Wu will launch a pilot, making a handful of arts and culture…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 11, 2024
It’s been nearly a year since The Embrace literally changed the landscape of Boston and challenged all of us to think about the purpose of public art. Now that…
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January 10, 2024
The Boston Children’s Chorus is on a mission to give the city’s youth a voice by giving them the power to transcend social barriers by celebrating a shared…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 9, 2024
It’s been nearly a year since The Embrace –the larger than life tribute to Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King–was unveiled on Boston Common. As we…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 8, 2024
The pharaoh of the opera. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has made a name for himself starring in the MET’s production of Akhenaten – earning a Grammy award…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 5, 2024
They’ve attacked governments, utilities and retail…and now hackers are escalating their assaults on museums. A ransomware gang has targeted software, bringing…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 4, 2024
One of the sectors hit hardest by the pandemic was the arts industry. By 2021 the prolonged closure cost Massachusetts close to 600 million dollars. Now that…
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January 3, 2024 -
A Massachusetts marathon that might be more rigorous than Boston’s famed 26.2 mile road race - This is a 25-hour, non-stop epic endeavor where the equivalent…
- The Culture Show Podcast
January 2, 2024
Director Igor Golyak, founder of Needham’s Arlekin Players Theater, was born in Ukraine. Understandably, themes of displacement and war are often woven…
- The Culture Show Podcast
December 22, 2023
Content warning - discussion of domestic violence Today on our week-in-review, it’s the ghost of Christmas future haunting Hollywood. Will the double feature…
- The Culture Show Podcast
December 21, 2023
A story of a true underdog. Ricky the rescue chihuahua goes to Broadway for the role of a lifetime: playing Bruiser – the canine costar of Elle Woods, the rich…
- The Culture Show Podcast
December 20, 2023
What does it mean to be at sea? Literally, it means to be away from land. Figuratively it means to have no path. It means confusion and disorientation. This is…
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December 19, 2023
Is the action film “Die Hard” a Christmas movie? Though there are some Yippee Ki NAYsayers – from film critics to Christmas traditionalists– there’s a case to…
- The Culture Show Podcast
December 18, 2023
For his newest work, Playwright Lloyd Suh relied on maternal instincts. His works often take place during pivotal moments in Asian American history – examining…
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December 15, 2023
Today on our week in review: Is Netflix going the way of Neilsen? The streaming service has been described as a “black hole” for keeping its viewership data…
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December 14, 2023 -
We are steeped in American history, marking the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Fed up with the tyranny of taxation without representation, American…
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December 13, 2023
Coming up on The Culture Show, the extraordinary events of a Christmas truce between Germany and the Allies during World War I come to life in the musical “All…
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December 12, 2023
Much of Alex Edelman’s comedy springs from his Jewish upbringing. He takes on Jewish identity, bigotry and ignorance–but there’s no malice in his material…
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December 11, 2023
It’s a modern spin on a fairy tale classic: The Urban Nutcracker. By mixing hip-hop, streetscapes, and strains of Duke Ellington –all of it propelled by the…
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December 8, 2023
It’s our arts and culture week-in-review. First up, pioneering producer Norman Lear. He dismantled TV’s nuclear family, taking on radioactive topics instead –…
- The Culture Show Podcast
December 7, 2023
I’m Jared Bowen. This is The Culture Show. First up, what do you call three lost souls left on a prep school campus during the holidays? The holdovers. That’s…
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December 6, 2023
First up, we remember the titan of TV: Norman Lear. He not only changed television, he changed the way we see ourselves by doing away with the traditional…
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December 5, 2023
“The Band's Visit” is one of the most captivating musicals about…nothing. Though it might not be action packed, it packs a punch for maximizing everyday…
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December 4, 2023
This is the Culture Show. Coming up: Tracy K. Smith. Through her poetry, the Pulitzer-prize winner probes the meaning of life. She meditates on what happens to…
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December 1, 2023 - The Culture Show talks sound towns and cultural centers
First up, what happens when a people’s cultural identity becomes a casualty of war? Throughout history monuments, cultural sites, artworks and artifacts have…
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4. The Culture Show Holiday Special!
Today we are going to look at four pillars of holiday entertainment: the 1946 classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Then the contemporary classic “Love Actually…
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Ep. 3 - The Culture Show: What Gwyneth Paltrow, Jerry Springer, and Anna Nicole Smith all have in common
Congressman Joaquin Castro is calling for a federal investigation into Warner Bros. for scrapping its own film: Coyote vs. Acme. From there, rap legend Andre…
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The Culture Show Ep. 02: Grammys, Museum Deaccessioning, Barbra Streisand
The Grammy nominations are here, women dominate the album of the year with SZA, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo topping the list. And yet, with nearly 100…
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The Culture Show Ep. 01: The Beatles, Matthew Perry, Halloween
In the first episode of "The Culture Show," hosts Jared Bowen, Edgar B. Herwick III, and Callie Crossley discuss this week's arts and culture news.