Talk of the Town: After Hours

WVBR News Correspondent Jessica Bristol sits down with dedicated Tompkins County community leader and mental health advocate Mike Koplinka-Loehr to discuss the issue of men's mental health and the barriers that often prevent people from seeking support. Mike reflects on his time in public service and his creation of an ongoing survivor's support group for the male victims of childhood sexual abuse...

WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sat down for a second time with author, editor, and publisher Mark Wish. Mark and his wife founded an annual short story anthology, Coolest American Stories, which pushes its contributors to make their fiction as compelling as possible, reminding them that readers crave “unputdownable” storytelling. Mark also served as the Fiction Editor of California Quarterly, w...

In this special episode, recorded ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election, WVBR’s News Department sits down with former CNBC Senior Producer Peter Schacknow to discuss how the economy might have an effect on the election.   Peter Schacknow served as Senior Producer at CNBC’s Breaking News Desk beginning in March 2006, producing breaking news stories for the daytime shows as well as serving as writ...

WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sat down with Royal D. Colle and Heike Michelsen for an hour-long interview about Beyond Borders: Exploring the History of Cornell's Global Dimensions (Cornell University Press, 2024). Colle and Michelsen, alongside Elaine D. Engst and Corey Ryan Earle, edited the book, which "highlights and celebrates Cornell University's many historical achievements and internat...

WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan recently sat down with New York Times Bestselling Author Tim Johnston for the latest episode of our “Authors on Air” series. Tim is the author of the novels DISTANT SONS, DESCENT, THE CURRENT, the story collection IRISH GIRL, and the Young Adult novel NEVER SO GREEN. A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie national bestseller, Descent has been published internation...

WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sat down with author, editor, and publisher Mark Wish. Mark and his wife recently founded an annual short story anthology, Coolest American Stories, which pushes its contributors to make their fiction as compelling as possible, reminding them that readers crave “unputdownable” storytelling. Mark’s latest book, which will be released in January 2024, is Necessary D...

WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sits down with Ralph White alongside DZ Stone, a writer, journalist, and former WVBR staffer, for WVBR News’ newest series, Authors on Air. Ralph’s book, Getting Out of Saigon, is a political exposé, a refugee saga, a coming-of-age story, and a romance, and it is narrated by the only living person who knows exactly what happened inside that embassy during Saigon’s...

WVBR News Directors Andrew Modrowsky and Jack Donnellan interview environmental activist and a pioneer of the “new economy movement", Helena Norberg-Hodge. Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures, a non-profit dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by strengthening local communities and local economies worldwide.   She is also the author of the international best-...

WVBR News Directors Andrew Modrowsky and Jack Donnellan interview NM State Senator, Cornell alum (and one-time kick returner on the football team) and author Bill O'Neill. O’Neill read from his recent poetry collection The Definition of Empty from University of New Mexico Press, as well as his recent novel Short Session from Red Mountain Press at Buffalo Street Books on June 4th at 2:00 PM. A nati...

Andrew Modrowsky discusses the resignation of U.S. Representative Tom Reed (NY-23), Grace Fairchild investigates why the markets are down, and Jack Donnellan breaks down why you might want to reconsider your daily aspirin regimen. We also report on local news from the Ithaca/Tompkins County region, including booster vaccine availability, the Ithaca Summer Concert series, and a new program making T...

Introducing new WVBR News Directors Jack Donnellan and Andrew Modrowsky! Join Jack as he provides updates on the goings-on at the station and what to expect from WVBR news in the future. Also, hear WVBR's top-notch reporting team break down the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, in which a majority of the Supreme Court privately voted...

On January 11, a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois against 16 major US universities, including Cornell, for antitrust violations. The lawsuit claims that these universities unlawfully collaborate on student aid calculations and fail to truly apply need-blind admissions policies.  To gain a better understanding of the history of financial aid price fixing, its impacts on students, and...

Jackie Torres provides an update on the Saturday 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, Izzy Frabotta breaks down the IPCC Climate Report, and Grace Fairchild gives an editorial on what seems to be the end of the Andrew Cuomo saga. This episode contains reports from the Saturday, August 14 live Talk of the Town show on 93.5 FM.  wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturda...

What does life in Ithaca look like in spring of 2021? The news departments at WICB and WVBR teamed up to catalogue the changes and challenges of the new normal.  Find more from the WICB News Department here .  wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com . Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter....

With segments from the April 3rd radio broadcast, this episode asks Dr. Christine Balance, Cornell PMA and Asian American Studies professor, about the rise in violence against Asian Americans in the US. Later, we visit with Cornell Law Professor John Blume about the legal procedures and norms behind the Derek Chauvin trial.  Segments by Izzy Frabotta, Jade Ovadia, and Grace Fairchild.  Catch the f...

From the March 20th Talk of the Town show, we have an interview with small business owner Deirdre Kurzweil about her landlord experience in the Ithaca Commons, and an interview with Erin Scannell, whose emotional support bunny, Finn, is the Instagram and Cornell famous @BigRedBun.   Thanks to Clara Enders and Jade Ovadia for their help with this episode.  wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of...

With segments from the December 12th radio show, Cornell Professors Colleen Carey, John Blume, and Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer share their insight on vaccine distribution, the death penalty, and DACA, respectively. Reporters: Izzy Frabotta, Jade Ovadia, Grace Fairchild wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com . Follow us on social me...

wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com . Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them  here . 

wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com.  Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them  here . 

Catch our full Talk of the Town show on Saturdays at 3p EST on WVBR 93.5 FM, or on wvbr.com .  wvbr.com/afterhours Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them  here . 

With highlights from the October 17th radio episode of Talk of the Town , this week's After Hours brings you stories on a Tompkins County police forum, an interview with New York State Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke, and a wrap up of this year’s Nobel Prize winners.  Thanks to Clara Enders, Christopher Morales, and Izzy Frabotta for great reports this week.  wvbr.com/afterhours Follow us on s...

With segments from our October 10th radio episode of Talk of the Town, this week we have reports from Christopher Morales, Grace Fairchild, Izzy Frabotta, and Clara Enders.  wvbr.com/afterhours Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them  here . 

New WVBR Reporters Izzy Frabotta, Clara Enders, Christopher Morales, and Charlie Mollin contribute stories on coronavirus containment, voting in Tompkins County, Cornell's Student Assembly elections, and de-densified AppleFest. WVBR News is back this fall, and we're bringing you the stories you Itha-Can't get anywhere else! Listen live to Talk of the Town on WVBR 93.5 FM on Saturdays at 3p for our...

Live music and bars were two early casualties of this year's pandemic, and WVBR News has talked with the people bringing both back to the Finger Lakes Wine Trail this summer. Supernatural Lake right on the shores of Cayuga Lake in Interlaken is the brainchild of New York sommelier Caleb Ganzer. They're offering lakeside dining, wines by the glass, morning coffee service, and starting next week, Su...

This week's episode features segments from Danny Alvarado-Gómez on Cornell students' anti-racism work, as well as a report from Clara Enders on what to expect from federal COVID relief negotiations and NYS unemployment extensions. Both segments were featured on our July 31st broadcast of  Talk of the Town.  Follow us on social media for news updates! We're @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Twitter, and Ins...