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We have TWO MAJOR celebrities: Piggie and Elephant from the Mo Willems books are our guests this week's for Check It Out. Maggie and Tom talk to Killian Crowley (Gerald) and Meg Keough (Pig) about the Elephant and Piggie play going on at the Gifford Family Theater. We will learn about the play, how to get tickets to see the shows on the weekends and a brief history of actors, who are both a lot of...

(#97, 5/19/26) In this May 2026 Episode of CNY Latino: cnylatinonewspaper.com/Podcast, Hugo and Marisol will review and narrate, last year's Utica Latino Festival, and also explaining some crazy plans we ended up having in 2025, and a short narration of an intense and dangerous moment we had driving, throughout a strong noisy and difficulty storm. En este episodio correspondiente a mayo de 2026, H...

On this edition of Making the City Smaller, host’s Peter Ward and Mike Durkin are joined by Ryan Woodruff, a Marine Corps Veteran and CEO of Clearpath for Veterans. Together they discuss the mission of Clearpath, which serves the needs of military veterans across New York State through its wide range of services such as the Canine Program which provides trained therapy dogs for veterans, as well a...

For more than 25 years, the Ginny Parker Young Playwrights Festival has given Central New York students the chance to see their ideas leap from the page to the stage. In this episode, longtime Christian Brothers Academy teacher Todd Benware, Syracuse University Department of Drama and YPF alumna Catie Kobland, and recent finalist and Jamesville-DeWitt student Udochukwu Okereke share stories about...

Maggie is back, Tom is there and we have an actual librarian guest on our library podcast for young patrons. Coming in the studio for today's episode of Check It Out is Nan Brown. Nan is the children's librarian at Central Library in the heart of downtown. We chat about the Kidspace area on the 2nd floor, some of the many programs that are go on there, and what we can expect to see during Summer R...

On this episode of CNY Heroes, Kari Mickinkle is a School Certifying Official in the Office of Veteran Success at Syracuse University. She discusses the Office mission of supporting the student veteran experience on campus by assisting with educational benefits and the work-study program. She talks about the challenges of today’s veterans entering higher education, including her own experience as...

On this edition of Checkup From the Neck-Up, Psychologist Rich “Dr. Neckup” O’Neill’s guest is Associate Professor Serife Tekin Ph. D. from at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University. They discuss AI in the space of our daily use of technology, AI “companions” in the context of our loneliness epidemic, and the use of AI “therapists” in “treatment” of individuals...

(#96, 5/05/26) In this May 2026 Episode of CNY Latino: cnylatinonewspaper.com/Podcast, Hugo and Marisol will describe their experience last year's Gem World Conference, with an extensive presentation from our friend and associate, Trisha Cook. En este episodio correspondiente a mayo de 2026, Hugo y Marisol describirán su experiencia en la Gem World Conference del año pasado, con una extensa presen...

On the latest episode of Repeating History our guest is Travis Bowman. The conversation is centered on Bowman's recent book he co-authored, Clearing Iroquoia: New York’s Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution, which reevaluates wartime campaigns against Native Peoples in light of the dispossession of Haudenosaunee homelands and American colonialism. This massive American campai...

Noxious chemicals have been deployed for crowd control by law-enforcement for many years. What is known about the immediate and long-term health effects of exposure to these agents? Learn how AI can be used to read between the lines of the genetic code. And a new technique may promote problem-solving while we dream.

Check It Out is back and turning the tables on this week's guest. Tom and Yona (subbing in for Maggie) get a chance to ask questions to the weekend anchor at CNY Central, Nicole LaFiandra. We get a look at her library past, what brought her to Syracuse and some of her favorite stories that she has covered during her time hosting the More Than Just Books segment. It's a lot of fun asking questions...

Associate Artistic Director Melissa Crespo sits down with Eleanor Holdridge about her first year as chair at the Department of Drama at Syracuse University

(#95, 4/14/26) In this April 2026 Episode of CNY Latino: cnylatinonewspaper.com/Podcast, we will be talking about the 2025 Utica Latino Festival; and a brief description of the "No King Movement" that happened last year in Syracuse. En este episodio correspondiente a marzo de 2026, hablaremos sobre el Festival Latino de Utica de 2025; y, a continuación, una breve descripción del «No King Movement»...

On this week's Check It Out, we have Tom and Maggie making things. Really? No, not really. But they are talking to Pauline Shostack, who is a producer for the popular and growing Maker Space Syracuse, coming to the area on Saturday, May 2nd. We learn about all the fun things like cosplay events and get to learn about the smart people who will be showing off their creations from all over Central Ne...

On this edition of Checkup From the Neck-Up, Psychologist Rich “Dr. Neckup” O’Neill’s guest is Associate Professor Serife Tekin Ph. D. from at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University. They discuss the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relationship to Large Language Models (LLMs), and the conflict between the long-standing scientific process in u...

On this episode of CNY Heroes, Dan catches up with Onondaga County American Legion commander Bob Haumann and Glen Wheelock, Jr., Onondaga County Boys State chair for the Legion. They talk about the recruitment for high schoolers to be part of this year’s American Legion Boys State program at Morrisville. They also discuss the upcoming statewide convention in Syracuse, and their own service experie...

(#94, 4/1/26) In this April 2026 Episode of CNY Latino: cnylatinonewspaper.com/Podcast, Hugo and Marisol will describe their experience in downtown Ithaca, when "Santa Claus" (played by a member of the Ithaca Police department) and his "elves helpers" (played by several members of the Ithaca Fire department), getting very excited a large crowd in the streets, when they all start going down from th...

Are artificial intelligence systems smart enough to make scientific discoveries on their own? Perhaps. Learn how AI experts think scientific research may be done in the future. Ready for another tree destroying pest? Meet the Zigzag Sawfly. And a newly discovered ally in the fight against climate change—tree bark.

Check It Out is back and Maggie and Tom have two reasons for you to listen to this week's episode. First, there are a LOT of fun things going on across the OCPL landscape during spring break, so they have a laundry list of libraries with fun things to do. Secondly, Tom feels as though many of our young listeners need to be up to speed on the silly corporate jargon you hear everyday, so we have mel...

On the latest edition of North Words, we visit with Clarke and Barbara Dunham at their home and studio in Pottersville. For more than seven decades, the Dunhams have been partners in life and art. Clarke designed award-winning sets for productions on and off Broadway, including "Grind," "Candide," and "The Iceman Cometh." And he and Barbara also were proprietors of a business that constructed expa...

(#93, 3/17/26) In this March 2026 Episode of CNY Latino: cnylatinonewspaper.com/Podcast, Hugo Acosta would be narrating the fantastic Christmas celebration that we had in downtown Ithaca, when Santa was arriving from the top of a tall building in that area, and also a brief description of a local artist explaining how to make handmade artifacts for sale. En este episodio de marzo de 2026, Hugo Aco...

On this edition of Checkup From the Neck-Up, Psychologist Rich “Dr. Neckup” O’Neill’s returning guest is Nurse Practitioner Ms. Kaytlyn Flansburgh from Inclusive Health Services at SUNY Upstate Medical University. In this show, they summarize their conversation from their first show. Then they discuss the incredible public health scientific success regarding HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and...

We take to the ice in this week's episode of Check It Out. Tom and Maggie invite a special guest to the studio: Christie Casciano from Newschannel 9. Besides being an anchor and a mom, Christie is the author of a trilogy of books called the Puck Hog Series. Her latest one is out now and we learn all about the "Trophy Thief Mystery".

Timothy Douglas speaks with Kyle Bass about his upcoming production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and his longtime history with August Wilson.

The Syracuse Housing Authority has been in the news recently: From missed deadlines to accusations of conflicts of interest. What does it all mean? Central Current reporter Debadrita Sur breaks it all down on this episode of ‘It’s Happening Here.'