Bar Crawl Radio

This was a first for Bar Crawl Radio -- A Real Bar Crawl -- three bars -- three conversations -- in one late afternoon crawl on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We had a tight schedule -- 30 minutes of recording and then a rush to the next bar. We had to put together a small recording kit that could be re-assembled quickly ... Zoom MP3 recorder Three mics and portable mic stands Th...

We had decided to produce one podcast a month. So, Becky and I had settled into an easy Bar Crawl Radio July schedule -- the first annual BCR Margie Crawl was planned for the end of the month -- we had lined up some interesting guests -- things were going smoothly. Then, we went to Smoke -- a small venue jazz club on the UWS to hear jazz trumpet great -- Charles Tolliver. After the set,...

BCR14 focused on the scientific / psychological study of violent criminal behavior – the worst of interpersonal human acts -- murder and rape. We talked with Criminal Psychologists Gabrielle Salfati and Marina Sorochinski. Both work to identify bad actors in our community. They have dedicated their professional lives to interrogate the complex interactive, human dynamics that r...

Conversations with two "crime" writers. In Two Acts Act 1 -- BCR13, hosts -- Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson -- talked with Michael Wilson who wrote the "Crime Scene" column for the NY Times from 2011 to 2017. In over 300, well-formed narratives, Wilson covered the human-side of crime from both sides of the law. BTW -- did you hear the one about the criminal who "robbed" the frig during the he...

This BCR episode brought together local mead makers and beer brewers to talk about and taste liberal samples of their craft. We spoke with Raphael Lyon of Enlightenment Wines and Honey's tasting room, Brian Sullivan of Capital Meads, Walter Lee (not a mead maker but a mead scholar and epicure) of the Pagan Mead Society. And -- we spoke with beer brewing masters Kyle Hurst or Big Alice Brewing and...

Following the Parkland High School mass killing, we wanted to have a BCR conversation about guns in our City.  BCR hosts, along with Alina Larson -- our new co-producer -- talked about our "make-my-day" experiences firing Ruger rifles at the West Side Pistol and Rifle Range in Manhattan.  Also, we speak with gun prevention activists Marie Delus, a Desert Storm Marine, Shannon Van Esley,...

This episode celebrated progressive NY women taking over the U.S. political scene.  BCR hosts talked with the women leaders of  Indivisible We Stand UWS, Indivisible Harlem,  and True Blue NY -- socially progressive political groups run by women. Lisa DellAquila, Camille Davis, Andrea Flink, and Lois Gudeon-Sloan argued for getting rid of the NY Senate's IDC and suppo...

Into our second season-- Bar Crawl Radio  hosts, Becky and Alan, talked with American Scoreboard  producers -- Chris Burney and Fran Kirmser -- about their project of bringing verbatim performances of Congressional hearings to NYC audiences and beyond. Brooke Weisman and James Patrick-Wilson read a most telling selection from the recent GPS Fusion hearings.  We also spoke with...

Recorded at Polpette 71 on W71st Street in Manhattan. This show was the culmination of our first, full season of broadcasting out of some really amazing bars in our city, as well as Ireland and Wales. We talked with Nancy Chaffetz--President of Broadway Mall Association.  And we invited former guests -- voice-over artists Johnny Heller and Jo Anna Perrin, Jungian, Chris Hoffman...

Becky and I returned to Gebhards Beer Culture on W. 72nd Street for our 7th BCR podcast. I am lovin' the beer choices that Matt -- bar owner -- and Lindsey -- manager -- have gathered. Beer selection changes every week.  Anyway ... the show features a conversation with Wade Ripka leader of the  Eastern Blokhedz and Greek Judas bands and includes cuts from his new album with Greek Ju...

An important conversation with Council Member Raphael Espinal from District 37 on his work to end NYC’s Cabaret Laws that disallowed dancing in our local bars. AND-- Michael Tanzillo and Brad Garoon of the podcast “Too Old To Date” updated us on the strange dating behaviors of the Tinder generation — We felt a bit like anthropologists discovering a new culture.  AND--Gebhard's manager Li...

Its October but the weather is unusually warm as we headed over for wine, beer, and Nicky Marmondo's award-winning meatballs at Polpette. You cannot say you've experienced the UWS if you have not tried Polpette's "naked meatballs" with a light Chianti. We spoke with the owner Nicky "Meatballs are my life" Mormando -- and with multi-Audie Award winning audio book narrator, Johnny Hel...

In August, 2017 - BCR went to Dublin / Hay-on-Wye / Swallowcliffe / Carlingford / and Brandon on the Dingle Peninsula. We visited pubs and talked to the barmen -- not bartenders -- Pub managers and lovers of Lay Lines and Crop Circles.  We met a cute German couple--well she was cute--he was large--friendly--with a mohawky-do -- and not an admirer of our D.Trump -- neither liked the...

[We are not sharing our first two shows recorded at Vino Laventino on W. 93rd Street and Broadway] because we were pretty green and a bit nervous. We had great guests -- Helen Rosenthal -- NYC Council Person of the UWS -- she was quite generous to join us on our inaugural efforts -- but ...] BCR #3 was a beginners effort -- but there is enough here to get a feel for what we were aiming for. Guests...