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‘Home of egg rolls, jazz and blues,’ Chan’s celebrates 120 years in Rhode Island
Music lovers put this Woonsocket music venue and restaurant on their bucket lists.
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December 23, 2024-Dwight & Nicole, Model Trains, Lisa Simmons' Holiday Film Guide
Dwight Ritcher and Nicole Nelson make up the critically acclaimed, genre-defying band DWIGHT & NICOLE. They trace their musical roots through blues, R&B, and soul with a little roots rock, alternative, and Americana sprinkled in. On New Year’s Eve they'll take the stage at Regattabar to perform hits from their acclaimed album, “The Jaguar, The Raven, and The Snake.” Dwight & Nicole join The Culture Show ahead of their Regattabar show for a preview and in-studio performance. To learn more about their New Year’s Eve show, go here.From there we fast track it to Malden. Edgar B. Herwick III takes us to Charles Ro Supply Company. The nation’s largest model train store triples as a museum, a depot for train hobbyists, and a perfect place for holiday shoppers. FinallyCulture Show contributor Lisa Simmons joins us with her list of holiday films: “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey,” “This Christmas,” “Last Holiday,” “The Best Man Holiday,” “Meet Me Next Christmas,” “The Holiday,” and “ The Christmas Chronicles.” Lisa Simmons is the artistic and executive director of the Roxbury International Film Festival and program manager at Mass Cultural Council. -
December 20, 2024 - Week in Review: Boston City Hall, the National Film Registry, and commemorative popcorn buckets
Today Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.First up, Boston City Hall. Whether you think it’s a masterpiece or a monstrosity, the Boston Landmarks Commission has voted to recognize one of the city’s most iconic and controversial structures as an historic landmark. But that’s not set in concrete until Mayor Michelle Wu and the City Council weigh in on its artistic significance.From there, a googly eyed bandit is running around Bend, Oregon, outfitting public art with big, cartoonish eyes…and the prankster is still at large.Plus, if you like plunging your hand into a sandworm or the mouth of a wolverine, you’re not alone. We have officially reached peak popcorn bucket with movie theater chains making big bucks by filling novelty items, such as a “Lord of the Rings” hammer or a “Gladiator II” coliseum replica with popcorn. -
December 19, 2024 - Ayodele Casel, Will Gusakov, and Nina MacLaughlin
Ayodele Casel is a trailblazing tap dancer and choreographer. Her tap dancing is at once percussive and poetry in motion. She joins The Culture Show to talk about the world-premiere production, “Diary of a Tap Dancer.” It traces her life – from her first steps in the Bronx and Puerto Rico– and along the way it celebrates the extraordinary and often-overlooked women dancers who broke the tap ceiling. “Diary of a Tap Dancer” is onstage at the American Repertory Theater through January 4th. To learn more, go here.From there we look at the historic restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral, which was made possible by the collective achievement of thousands of craftspeople, builders, firefighters, engineers, and architects. Among them was Will Gusakov. He’s a Vermont woodworker who was part of a New England team helping to rebuild Notre-Dame, working on the timber frame medieval roof system that was first built in 1200. Will Gusakov owns a timber framing company in Lincoln, Vermont, Goosewing Timberworks. He joins us to talk about being part of this remarkable undertaking.Finally, the best-selling author and literary columnist Nina MacLaughlin has written a meditation on the cold, the dark, the solitude that descends on us this time of year in her award winning essay book, “Winter Solstice.” She joins The Culture Show to talk about it. -
December 18, 2024 - Mary Grant and the Cocktail Guru, Jonathan Pogash
Today on The Culture Show Mary Grant, President of MassArt, joins us for our recurring feature “AI: Actual intelligence,” where we tap into the most interesting thinkers in our region whose insights and observations are totally original and algorithm free. This month we discuss stories at the intersection of art, society and education, from a recent study on the brain benefits of seeing real works of art, to the MassArt Common Good Awards.From there The Culture Show’s co-hosts Callie Crossley, Jared Bowen and Edgar B Herwick III convene a holiday cocktail party with Jonathan Pogash, founder and owner of The Cocktail Guru, leading the way. Jonathan Pogash will return to GBH on February 14th for Valentine’s Day Soiree. To learn more about that event and how you can attend, go here. For the cocktail recipes featured on the show, visit our Instagram page. -
December 17, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Les Sampou and Ed Grenga, and Abelardo Morell
Today on The Culture Show Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins us for his monthly segment: “AI: Actual intelligence,” where we tap into the most interesting thinkers in our region. Their insights and observations are totally original and algorithm free. Today Imari Paris Jeffries discusses President Biden commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes through the lens of Martin Luther King. Jr.’s legacy.. He also previews next month’s Embrace Honors MLK, which is on January 19th. To learn more about the event go here.From there we’re joined by singer-songwriter Les Sampou and composer, musician and songwriter Ed Grenga. Based in Massachusetts, they discuss their new album, “Best Day of the Year: Original Holiday Classics,” and what it’s like to score holiday films for Hallmark and Lifetime.Finally the innovative photographer Abelardo Morell joins The Culture Show to talk about his technique and his exhibition, now on view at the Clark Art Institute through February 17th, “Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable.” To learn more about the exhibition go here.
