Episodes
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Summertime Eats: Lobster Rolls, Aromatic Snacks and Wine In A Tube
Can you tell the difference between wine in a bottle, a box, a can or a tube? Callie and our experts agree: It's all good! Our food and wine gurus give us the low-down on what to eat and drink this summer, including where to find the tastiest lobster rolls in Boston and a healthier snack alternative to munch on while we binge-watch Netflix. Guests: Jonathon Alsop, founder and executive director of the Boston Wine School, and Amy Traverso, senior food editor at Yankee Magazine and co-host of WGBH's "Weekends with Yankee." -
Recovery-Campus Plans, Rockwell Paintings For Sale And Fate Of Chelsea Water Tower
On this week's local news roundtable, we discuss a plan for an opioid-recovery campus at Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, vandalism at a Dorchester tennis club, the death of the east-west rail proposal and how Chelsea's landscape will change if its iconic red-and-white water tower is torn down. Guests: Seth Daniel, senior reporter for the Independent News Group, and Mike Deehan, Massachusetts Statehouse reporter for WGBH News. -
Screaming For Ice Cream: New England's Favorite Frozen Treat
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated the third Sunday in July as National Ice Cream Day. It’s a special day here in Massachusetts, where we double-dip every day of the year, even in freezing temperatures. And it was here in Greater Boston where ice cream innovators help catapult ice cream from a mass-produced product to a handmade, artisanal specialty. Our guests talk to us about the ice cream revolution of "smush-ins," global culinary trends and even savory ice cream, and give us their take on why they think New England loves ice cream so much. Guests: Amy Ettinger, author of “Sweet Spot: An Ice Cream Binge Across America"; Judy Herrell, owner of Herrell’s Ice Cream; and Gus Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
Seaport's Omni Hotel Project Revolutionizing Business In Boston
MassPort's plan for the Seaport's Omni Hotel is changing how business is done here in Boston by elevating the importance of diversity and minority investment at all levels of real-estate development. Could this business model become a new standard for other businesses and industries in the cit? And could this business model spread beyond the Bay State and affect business nationwide? Guests: Duane Jackson, vice-chairman of the MassPort Board of Directors, chairman of the real estate strategic initiatives committee for MassPort; Greg Janey, founding partner and chief executive of Janey Construction Management and Consulting; Mikyoung Kim, landscape architect and owner of Mikyoung Kim Design. -
Trash Transformations: Nari Ward's 'Sun Splashed' On Display At ICA Boston
Often we think of masterpieces inspired by what’s already beautiful. But what about the stuff we often overlook? What about neon signs, storefronts and baking sheets? When arranged by Nari Ward, these forgettable items turn from trash to timeless works of art. Nari Ward’s work, currently on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, celebrates and elevates the objects that surround our everyday lives. Guest: Nari Ward, artist. -
Dangerous Ticks, A Push For More Civics Lessons And Budget Battle In R.I.
On this week's regional roundtable, we discuss how New Hampshire is pushing for more social studies and civics education in schools, a dangerous tick disease in Cape Cod, the latest in the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's land-ownership dispute and what the hold-up is regarding Rhode Island's state budget. Guests: Arnie Arnesen, of WNHN's "The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen"; Philip Eil, freelance journalist based in Providence, R.I.; and Paul Pronovost, editor of the Cape Cod Times. -
Millennials At The Forefront Of Boston's Economic Future
Millennials may get a bad rap as lazy, social-media-obsessed, Peter-Pan-syndrome narcissists, but as the generation grows up and establishes itself in the fabric of the American economy, and labor and housing market, it's time to stop admonishing Millennials and look to these young adults as the future of our nation. This is especially true of Boston, where 35 percent of the population is considered part of the Millennial generation. We speak to three community leaders about a recent Boston Foundation study about Millennials and how they're working to get their peers more involved in changing and developing Boston and the Bay State. Guests: Justin Kang, founder of City Awake; Debora Silva, a financial underwriter for Blue Cross Blue Shield and a member of City Awake; and Pichon Duplan, the co-founder of Fast Forward, a partner of City Awake. -
Becoming A Vino Virtuoso: Bianca Bosker On Her Book, 'Cork Dork'
It sounds like a fantasy for a wine lover -- spending every day tasting and learning about wine. Bianca Bosker went from rank amateur to cellar rat to the top of the wine-professional chain as a certified sommelier. She tells us all about it in her book, " Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among The Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, And Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me To Live For Taste." It’s our July selection for Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club. Guests: Bianca Bosker, author; and Jonathon Alsop, Under the Radar's wine expert and executive director of the Boston Wine School. -
Problem Properties, Tollbooth Troubles And Fraud In Boston's Mayoral Nominations?
What's the difference between a vacant home and a problem property? Was the elimination of toll-booth workers actually worth it, financially? And is it unfair to hire professionals to get verified signatures for a mayoral campaign? All that and more on this week's local news roundtable! Guests: Gin Dumcius, Massachusetts Statehouse reporter for MassLive; Lauren Dezenski, reporter for Politico Massachusetts and editor of the Politico Massachusetts’s Playbook; and Jennifer Smith, staff reporter for the Dorchester Reporter. -
Roxbury International Film Festival Showcases Filmmakers Of Color
This is the 19th year Boston’s Roxbury International Film Festival will screen shorts, documentaries and feature-length films illustrating the stories of people of color. The 10-day film festival screens most of its movies at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Haley House Bakery Cafe. Topics for the films are quite varied, including bone-marrow donations for mixed-race people, the untold stories of the funk band Parliament and the rights of immigrants. Guests: Lisa Simmons, director of the Roxbury Film Festival; and Anike Tourse, writer, producer and director of "America; I Too."
