Arts Express

* Actor Steve Schirripa Talks The Sopranos, Blue Bloods * Becoming Ella Fitzgerald with author Judith Tick * A Conversation With David Archibald - the Scottish professor and performer on Tracking Ken Loach * Garland Nixon on Gaza

* Adrien Brody Talks Masculine Identity In Crisis in his new film Manodrome * Israelism: A new film doc on American Jewish youth turning against Zionism. * The homeless crisis gets personal * Garland Nixon on the pirates of the American Empire

* Black and Choctaw Native American Aaron Neville talks Music and Memoir: Tell It Like It Is, My Story * Pepe Escobar on the Mummy and Xi * Werner Herzog, Radical Dreamer * Garland Nixon on the Colonial Wound

* Noah Wylie Talks At The Gates, ER Memories, and strike resolution.  * The Poetry Of Caitlin Johnstone. "In Times Such as These" * Brett Gregory probes the film essay Looking Forward * Dennis Broe on mind-numbing media spectacle * Garland Nixon on the monsters who rule

* The Shirelles' Beverly Lee talks the groundbreaking 60s girl groups  * A Creature Wanting Form: author Luke O'Neil in conversation about his fiction & non-fiction * Actors' strike update with actor/filmmaker Harley Wallen * Garland Nixon on genocide

* Terrence Howard Talks Empire, Hustle & Flow, and his upcoming Shirley Chisholm biopic, Shirley * AE Fave Mary Murphy discusses film, theater, tv, animation, video games, voice acting, and the actors' strike  * Garland Nixon on "Why We Blow Ourselves Up"

* Alicia Witt Talks Movies, Music, And The Continuing Actors Struggle * Miguel Gardel reads from his short story, "Blues In America" * Peter Wise discourses on the 9 minute Nietzsche * Garland Nixon on Trainwreck America

* Henry Thomas talks his films and series from ET to Fall of the House of Usher * Luke O'Neil's short story "Thy Kingdom Come" from A Creature Wanting Form * The Stones And Brian Jones: Deciphering the Nick Broomfield doc * Garland Nixon on the so-called "rules-based"  order

* Diallo Riddle Talks One Song, The Hollywood Strikes, And What Exactly Is A Moonlighting DJ * Ian Scott: American Politics In Hollywood Film * Mary Murphy reads selections from the poetry of Mary Oliver * Peter WIse: 9 minute Nietzche and Garland Nixon

* A Tale of Two Prison Dramas: Actress Siobhan Fallon in Shelter in Solitude and Eileen * Brett Gregory deconstructs Norman Finkelstein's new book * Singer/songwriter Nellie McKay talks about Hey Guys, Watch This * Peter Wise on The 9 minute Nietzsche

* Madison Molloy on "Comedy in a woke world," as a woman speaking her mind * Blue collar wordsmith Miguel Gardel reads his short story, "Religious" * Peter Wise's gallery tour of the artist and the renegade  * Garland Nixon on US foreign policy hypocrisy

* Michael Rapaport talks DeNiro, Walken, strikes, and stand-up comedy * Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World's Economy * Brett Gregory on the Drive In: Outdoor Cinema In 1950s America * Mitchel Cohen's anti-war memory lane excursion

* Brian Goodman, who has worked with the best, walks the picket line * Garland Nixon on Malcolm X and Africa Rising * Brett Gregory's memoir,  "I Used to be Jewish" * Caitlin Johnstone on Capitol Hill psychopaths * Dennis Broe on the Hollywood strikes

* Golden Age of Hollywood Actress Terry Moore on "Silent Life: The Story Of The Lady In Black," about the mystery rose woman at Valentino's grave. *Brett Gregory on Identity Politics, Horror, Marxism And the Hayes Code  *Garland Nixon on "Who Am I?"

* Filmmaker and veteran manager of rock artists Jon Brewer discusses his doc Chuck Berry: The Original King Of Rock 'n' Roll * Brett Gregory and Dominic Lees on AI's impact on film and TV * Garland Nixon on suing Twitter

* Amy Redford Talks The Sopranos, This Revolution, And Her Father Robert R. * Ron Perlman Rant On The Picket Line * "The Hollywood Renaissance And The Blacklist": Brett Gregory and Andy Willis * More At The Atomic Cafe with director Jayne Loader

* Margaret Cho on her "Live and Livid" stand-up tour, and news on the writers' and actors' strike *The Atomic Cafe: AE talks with the director of the classic film doc of US nuclear war propaganda * Brett Gregory on The Ageing Woman In British Film * Scott Ritter: Banned on YouTube!

* Orlando Jones talks Til Death Do Us Part * Lionelle Hamanaka shares personal memories during Nagasaki remembrance day * Stephanie Bartage on Shawshank Redemption for the stage * Excerpts of our production of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse

In this adaptation prepared especially for radio, Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking stream of consciousness novel, To The Lighthouse, is brought to life. In a sort of ghost story that plays with time, memory, and recollection, a young boy, over a period of ten years, tries to journey to the lighthouse, a stormy boat ride away from his family’s summer vacation home. The life of his nurturing mother,...

* Filmmaker Susan Stern Talks Barbie Nation--An Unauthorized Tour! * Brett Gregory & Chris Nunn In Search of The Wicker Man--new revelations on the cult horror film * Wall Street/Hollywood East And West SAG AFTRA Strike Update * Dennis Broe on "Apocalyptic TV & Global Warming"

* Director Mary Harron talks Daliland and The Notorious Bettie Page *Wall Street/Hollywood SAG-AFTRA Actor's Strike Updates * Kubrick And Control: Brett Gregory on Jeremy Carr's interpretation of Kubrick's classics * Garland Nixon's Crime Scenes 

* Hollywood Babble-On: Kevin Smith Taking The Movie Industry To The Next Level * Brett Gregory: British Cinema And A Divided Nation * Fran Drescher and SAG-AFTRA take on Wall Street greed * A Life In The Key Of The Community: art as a communal act

** Graham McTavish Talks The Witcher, Men In Kilts, & Somewhere in Montana. ** A Memo From David Mamet to writers ** Peter Wise tracks down rock musician & reporter, Bob Saar ** Garland Nixon on corrupted corporate media

** Director Catherine Hardwicke Talks Prisoner's Daughter: drugs, incarceration, and the struggles of single working mothers.  ** As Far As I Can Walk: A Conversation With Director Stefan Asimyevich ** Bro on the crime novel and corruption ** Garland Nixon breaks it down

* First Nation star Wes Studi talks PTSD in Mending The Line and his new series Reservation Dogs * Garland Nixon on reading the news backwards * The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel's oppressive tech is  exported to the world