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Devo at 50: ‘We're like the house band on the Titanic at this point’
Devo's 50th anniversary tour called "50 Years of De-Evolution… Continued!" is headed to Boston on May 9.
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August 15, 2024 - Kate Pierson, the Gifford House, and the 2024 summer blockbusters
Kate Pierson, an original member of the B-52’s, also has a solo career, which includes an upcoming album, “Radios and Rainbows.” Though it will be released next month, you can get a preview at the 20th annual Cape Cod Jazz & Arts Festival on August 21st where she will be debuting her new material. She joins us to talk about her upcoming show, discovering the ocean as a Cape Cod resident, and why she is hooked on interior design.From there we stay on the Cape by way of the Gifford House. It is one of the last grand inns in Provincetown and now it has a new life with proprietor Steven Azar bringing it into the 21st century and reviving it as an arts and entertainment hub. Ahead of Carnival Week, he joins The Culture Show to talk about all that the Gifford House has to offer.Finally Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons, the executive and artistic director of The Roxbury International Film Festival, joins us to talk about the anatomy of a summer blockbuster, if Hollywood star power can save Broadway, and what local events to take in. -
August 14, 2024 - A Light Under the Dome, the Fisherman's Feast Meatball Competition, and summer cocktails
In 1838 Angelina Grimké made delivered a groundbreaking speech to the Massachusetts Legislature demanding the immediate end of the slave trade. This was the first time in US history that a woman had addressed a legislative body. Now this history has been brought to life in the play “ A Light Under the Dome,” which is staged where it all took place: at the Massachusetts State House.This, along with two other forthcoming productions, I’s produced by the site specific theater company Plays in Place in collaboration with the National Parks of Boston. The director Courtney O’Connor and Liza Stearns, deputy superintendent of the National Parks of Boston, join The Culture Show to discuss. From there we head to the North End by way of the 114th annual Fisherman’s Feast, which kicks off August 15th and runs through August 18th. Domenic Strazzullo, the president of the Fisherman’s Feast, and The Boston Guido, one of the meatball competitions judges, join us for the ultimate overview. Finally, we top things off by topping one off. Marsha Lindsey, the principal Bartender at SRV in Boston’s South End serves up summer drink suggestions. -
August 13, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, the Art Gym in Somerville, and MAGIA
Fifty years ago a federal court forced Boston to desegregate its schools with busing. Known as the Boston busing crisis, it was fraught with racism and violence and it tore the city apart. To take stock of this anniversary, Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins us to look at the role that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King played in fighting for school desegregation. From there Damon Lehrer, an artist and founder of the Boston Figurative Art Center, joins us to talk about their Art Gym, a space where artists can drop in and get their creative workout.Finally, Sarah Bob, founding director of New Gallery Concert Series and multimedia performance artist Daniel Callahan, join us to talk about MAGIA, a multimedia immersive experience that blends contemporary music and visual art. The event kicks off this Saturday at 7:30. -
August 12, 2024 - Ken Leung, the BPL's writer-in-residence, and the Cape Ann Museum
At The London offices of Pierpoint & Company there is still the residue of the old boys' network on the trading floor where backs are stabbed, fortunes are made as quickly as they're lost and hedonism abounds. This is the fictional investment bank depicted in HBO’s workplace drama “Industry, ” which both romanticizes and rebukes the world of finance. Actor Ken Leung is central to the show’s drama and searing satirical take on the finance world, playing Eric Tao, a senior banker. He joins us to talk about season three, which premiered on HBO yesterday.From there we talk to Yssis Cano-Santiago. The Associates of the Boston Public Library recently announced that she will be the writer-in-residence for 2024-25. The organization has been running its writer-in-residence program for 20 years, supporting emerging writers.Finally, the future of the Cape Ann Museum is getting bolder, bigger and for visitors, free-er. The museum’s director, Oliver Barker, joins us to talk about their capital campaign, which coincides with the museum’s 150th anniversary next year. -
August 9, 2024 - Week in Review: Aerosmith, Pitbull Stadium, and Good Will Hunting
Today on the Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Edgar B. Herwick III take on the latest headlines on out arts and culture week-in-review, First up, So much for sacking the Sacklers. Though dozens upon dozens of institutions have severed ties with the Sacklers because of their ties to the opioid epidemic, the family still has a hold on Harvard. After a long review, the university has decided to keep the Sackler name on some of their properties, which includes the Harvard Art Museums. Then we look at the state’s budget and if a theater tax credit still has a chance to boost the local arts economy and build a Boston to Broadway pipeline along the way.Plus, when it comes to another Aerosmith concert, fans will have to “Dream On.” with news that they will no longer be touring.
