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Arts & Life

Arts & Life

Arts & life
  • It is February and still these branches are dressed in a flutter of leaves. Golden brown with a dark midrib and branching pinnate veins.
  • Front Row Center Host Keely Larson sits down with Westside Theater and Bare Bait Dance Executive Director Joy French, along with dancer and choreographer Caroline McCauley, to talk about 40 Over 40—a production that includes over 80 dancers ages 40 and up, from "dance curious" participants to those with extensive experience in the artform.
  • ‘Front Row Center’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Alissa Tucker, the founder and director of Last Best Cabaret, a new entertainment company with two spring performances in March and April.
  • In the last episode of Grounding season two, Host Sarah Aronson and MTPR Host and Producer Lauren Korn talk about the homesickness they feel for places they love that have changed. And, they put a word to that feeling—solastalgia. Lauren interviews writer and editor Paul Bogard, who created an anthology sourced from people coming to terms with the word and the feeling of solastalgia.
  • Grounding episode five takes a stab at an age-old question: what is a human’s place within nature? Host Sarah Aronson speaks to two environmental philosophers—Soazig Le Bihan and Christopher J. Preston—about that divide, and tugs at the dissonance that exists when we’re trying to understand our place in the world relative to other creatures. Are we supposed to go forth and conquer, or should we be ashamed of the impact we’ve had on different species?
  • Many insects employ strategies to try and beat the heat. The most obvious is to simply seek shade. However, for some species of dragonflies, they try something a bit more interesting.
  • In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks to journalist Leah Sottile about ‘Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age’ (Grand Central Publishing; Hachette Book Group). This is the second part of a two-part conversation.