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Irish Stew Podcast
Belfast Night Czar Michael Stewart & Foodie Entrepreneur Caroline Wilson at The Common Market!

Irish Stew Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 54:35


We found the right guides for Belfast's burgeoning food and festivities scene in Michael Stewart and Caroline Wilson.Caroline is a lawyer-turned-serial-entrepreneur of food and drink experiences. She founded Belfast Food Tour, co-founded Taste and Tour, Ahoy Belfast, Fooday and Belfast Gin Fest and she's on the Board of Visit Belfast and The Strand.A well-known man about Belfast, Michael Stewart, spent close to 40 years in hospitality--and was he ever hospitable to us, helping us arrange for the lion's share of our #LostinBelfast interviews.A past president of the Belfast Chamber, Michael now reigns as Belfast's Night Czar, tasked with promoting the nighttime economy of the City Center, Linen, Cathedral, and Belfast One Business Improvement Districts.We met the mad duo at The Common Market, an indoor international street food festival, open to all--including dogs--in a cavernous old fruit market in the Cathedral Quarter, with our mics picking up all the background craic in this on-location recording session.There's a seat for you at the table, so join us!LinksMichael StewartBar CzarFacebookInstagramLinkedInCaroline WilsonTaste and TourXTaste and TourAhoy BefastInstagramLinkedInEpisode Details: Season 7, Episode 13; Total Episode Count: 116

Aim Hometown Innovations Podcast
Aim Hometown Innovations Podcast: Rushville City Center

Aim Hometown Innovations Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 28:57


SDCF Masters of the Stage
The Art of Collaboration: dots and Anne Kauffman

SDCF Masters of the Stage

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 57:00


We are excited to bring you this new episode in our podcast series, The Art of Collaboration with Anne Kauffman and dots. This series focuses on directors and choreographers in conversation with some of their collaborators. This series explores the ins and outs of these processes, both finer details as well as overarching ideas about what goes into a productive collaboration on a show. In this episode you will hear an in-depth and transparent conversation with Anne and dots focused on the collaboration between directors and designers as well as navigating the industry as a collective.   Bios: dots (Scenic Designer) is a design collective creating environments for theater, film, commercials, and immersive experiences. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa, and Japan, we are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. As collaborators, we believe that the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts. Recent highlights include the Broadway productions of Oh, Mary! ; Romeo + Juliet, An Enemy of the People (Tony Award Nomination for Best Scenic Design of a Play); Appropriate (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding Scenic Design); The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window; and The Big Gay Jamboree ; Recent awards include a 2024 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Design, 2023 and 2024 Henry Hewes Design Award, recipient of 2025 USA Fellowship Award . designbydots.com. Anne Kauffman (Director)'s credits include the New York Philharmonic, BAM, Ars Nova, NYTW, Roundabout Theatre Company, Encores! Off-Center, Women's Project, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, P73 Productions, New Georges, Vineyard Theatre, LCT3, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, American Conservatory Theater, and Berkeley Rep. She is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre, Artistic Associate and Founding Member of The Civilians, a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, an SDC Executive Board Member, Vice President and Trustee of SDCF 2020-2023, and Artistic Director of City Center's Encores! Off-Center 2017-2020. Her awards include a 2024 Tony nomination for Best Director for Mary Jane, a 2023 Tony nomination for Best Revival for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, three Obies, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama League Award, and the Joe A. Callaway. She is co-creator of the Cast Album Project with Jeanine Tesori.   dots headshot courtesy of dots Anne Kauffman's headshot by Tess Mayer

Jeff Caplan's Afternoon News
Vineyard citizens have launched a referendum... to oppose a 35 million dollar bond to build a new City center.

Jeff Caplan's Afternoon News

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 6:47


Vineyard citizens have launched a referendum... to oppose a 35 million dollar bond to build a new City center. Joining me live is Kim Cornelious, co-sponsor of the referendum

VPM Daily Newscast
BizSense Beat: Richmond's City Center, the Diamond District and Hanover data centers

VPM Daily Newscast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 5:04


Richmond officials break ground on a portion of the Diamond District development and explore redevelopment options for the city's shuttered coliseum behind the scenes. Meanwhile, Hanover staff review a revamped proposal from a developer seeking to build a data center campus that spans across the borders of the county and the town of Ashland.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

04/02/2025, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center. So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson examines the rich intersection between Zen practice and artistic expression—not as a pursuit of perfection, but as a way to return to our true nature.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Nothing in the Entire Universe Is Hidden

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025 40:54


03/29/2025, Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel, dharma talk at City Center. Abiding Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel explores how the spirit of Dogen's “Tenzo Kyokun” extends beyond sesshin, inviting us to discover how zazen mind manifests in our homes and workplaces.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

03/28/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center. Doshin Dan Gudgel explores the idea of a ‘caretaker' as it relates to the Parental Mind that Dogen encourages in his Tenzo Kyokun text.

BroadwayRadio
Class Notes: Trip Cullman “We Had A World”

BroadwayRadio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2025 12:28


Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Trip Cullman, the director of “We Had A World” Presented by Manhattan Theater Club at City Center in Stage II. “Class Notes” actively covers New York's current theater season on, off, and off-offBroadway. Andrew Barth Feldman, Jeanine Serralles and Joanna Gleason in Manhattan Theatre read more The post Class Notes: Trip Cullman “We Had A World” appeared first on BroadwayRadio.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
What is the Shape of My Mind?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2025 41:53


03/22/2025, Onryu Mary Stares, dharma talk at City Center. Onryu Mary Stares speaks about Eihei Dogen Zenji's text “Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction to the Cook)” as part of the March 2025 intensive focus on kitchen practice.

The Drama Book Show!
In Conversation. Joshua Harmon and Rajiv Joseph

The Drama Book Show!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 70:56


In Episode 32, David and Mark-Eugene dive into their favorite works by playwrights Joshua Harmon and Rajiv Joseph. Later, guest moderator Samantha Tuozzolo (Survival Jobs Podcast) hosts a special behind-the-scenes discussion, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) and the Drama Book Shop. Harmon and Joseph share insights into their creative process, their relationship with MTC, and how real-life events shape their storytelling. They also reflect on the excitement of having both of their shows running simultaneously at City Center. To close the episode, David and Mark-Eugene tease what's coming next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die Rückspultaste
109.1: Lichtrouten I – Architektur der Erinnerung

Die Rückspultaste

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 184:50


Die neunte Ausgabe der Lichtrouten, dem internationalen Festival für Licht- und Medienkunst im öffentlichen Raum, läuft in Lüdenscheid. Vom 20. bis 29. März 2025 sind in den Abendstunden dreißig Lichtkunstwerke über die Innenstadt verteilt zu sehen. Rückspul-Orte wie der vergammelnde Knödler-Bau werden von den sogenannten Young Masters erobert – die Fassaden der Betonsünden Sauerland- und City-Center verwandeln sich – das Wellenbad erwacht als hypnotischer Ort – und viele tausend Menschen sind im bei Dunkelheit normalerweise ausgestorbenen Lüdenscheid unterwegs. Die Nacht ist voller Kunst und Leben. Vor elf Jahren war Sebastian bei der vorletzten Edition des Festivals als Stadtführer unterwegs – jetzt endlich wieder. Im Werkstattgespräch mit Simon gibt er einen Rückblick und beleuchtet seine ganz persönliche Geschichte mit den Lichtrouten. Außerdem im Interview: Journalist und Licht-Blogger Wolfgang Teipel, Lichtrouten-Kuratorin Bettina Pelz und Thomas Meermann, Möglichmacher der ersten Stunde. Fortsetzung folgt in einer Woche. Bis dahin: Kommt nach Lüdenscheid zu den Lichtrouten!

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Rolling Up Your Sleeves

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 30:24


03/19/2025, Judith Keenan, dharma talk at City Center. Judith Keenan explores the relationship between temple kitchen work and other types of work practice, and presents a short video interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman.

Singular Sensation: The Podcast
Chicago #1: John Kander & the Making of Chicago

Singular Sensation: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 27:13


Legendary composer John Kander (Chicago, Cabaret, Steel Pier, Zorba) shares rarified insider stories with Michael Riedel about the making of Chicago. Kander reminisces about creating epic musical hits with songwriting partner Fred Ebb and collaborating with Director/Choregrapher Bob Fosse. Kander also reveals the secret advice he received from dear friend Liza Minnelli.  Chicago opened on Broadway in 1975, and in the shadow of the Tony-winning musical smash A Chorus Line, Chicago was overlooked for years. When Chicago returned to New York's City Center and transferred to Broadway in 1996, no one would have dreamed that the show would still be running in 2025, making it the longest running musical revival in Broadway history! This episode features never-before-heard excerpts from the interviews Michael Riedel recorded while writing his 2020 best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Theater Enthusiast Podcast
The Theater Enthusiast Podcast Season 11 Episode 5- Tiffany Mann

The Theater Enthusiast Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2025 66:27


This episode we are joined by performer Tiffany Mann!  Tiffany was last seen in City Center's production of Urinetown. She's been on Broadway in Waitress and Be More Chill, off-Broadway in Jerry Springer:the Opera (where she won a Lucille Lortel Award), Jelly's Last Jam and Ragtime at City Center, on television in Rise, Orange is the New Black and New Amsterdam, the film You Go Girl! And much more!We speak with Tiffany about the hustle of being/making it as an artist, originating a role on Broadway, working on Ragtime at City Center and being the "Princess of City Center", and much more!

to know the land
Ep. 264 : A Fisher in Edmonton with Sage Raymond

to know the land

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 48:47


Fishers aren't known as an urban adapted species. They tend to avoid our built up landscapes and prefer landscapes of mature forests comprised of appropriate denning habitat such as old trees with cavities and lots of course woody debris (think of big piles of dead branches and fallen logs), characteristics not usually found in urban forests. Because of this Fishers avoid our cities… or so we thought.Sage Raymond is a researcher who studies urban adapted Coyotes in Edmonton. While out checking some trail cams intended to catch Coyotes on the landscape, she happened across a Fisher trail in the snow, in a small wooded area along the North Saskatchewan River. Later confirmed with footage from one of the remote cameras, Sage realized that this was a very unusual circumstance. Thankfully she wrote a paper about it and I had to read it, and, again, thankfully, she agreed to talk about her findings on the show. There is a link to the paper below.To learn more:Ep. 159 : Tracking Urban Adapted Coyote Ecologies with Sage RaymondSage Raymond's Research Gate profileSage Raymond's instagramFisher Use of an Ecological Corridor Near the City Center of Edmonton, Canada, A City of Over One Million People by Sage Raymond and Colleen Cassady St. Clair. Urban Naturalist, No. 77 (2025).Pictorial Guide of Important Fisher Habitat Structures in British Columbia (pdf)

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
We Are Always Cooking

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 39:03


03/15/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord looks at Zen kitchen practice and work practice generally, connecting to the joy of activity, learning to care and venerate all things, and how to have a broad vast mind for holding what arises.

The Theater Enthusiast Podcast
The Theater Enthusiast Podcast Season 11 Episode 4- Solea Pfeiffer

The Theater Enthusiast Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 131:58


This episode we are joined by artist Solea Pfeiffer!  Solea is currently starring as Satine in Moulin Rouge on Broadway, which she is great in- 10 out of 10 highly recommend!  Her other Broadway credits include Hadestown and Almost Famous, where she made her Broadway debut.  Her other credits include Gatsby at A.R.T., Evita and Songs For a New World at City Center, Hamlet with The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park, The Light in the Piazza, West Side Story at the Hollywood Bowl, and the film A Jazzman's Blues.  We speak with Solea about her the meaning behind her motto "Fuck Um" and how that's helped her throughout her career, allowing herself to let opportunities to come to her, how "artists should be given the permission to be imperfect without judgment" and much more!Solea will also be performing at Café Carlyle April 24th, 25th, and 26th.  Make sure to get your tickets! 

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Dogen in the Western Zen Kitchen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 51:26


03/08/2025, Zenki Mary Mocine, dharma talk at City Center. Zenki Mary Mocine speaks about Eihei Dogen Zenji's text “Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction to the Cook)” as part of the March 2025 intensive focus on kitchen practice.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

03/05/2025, Teah Strozer, dharma talk at City Center. Teah Strozer speaks about Eihei Dogen Zenji's text “Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction to the Cook)” as part of the March 2025 intensive focus on kitchen practice.

Henry Lake
What about City Center, and Ben Johnson

Henry Lake

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 36:02


With all of the recent discussion, Henry wonders what should we do with the Minneapolis City Center, and he talks with Minnesota Men's Basketball Head Coach Ben Johnson.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

03/01/2025, Edward Brown, dharma talk at City Center. Edward Espe Brown shares teachings from Eihei Dogen's “Tenzo Kyokun”, and stories from practicing as tenzo (head cook) at Tassajara under the guidance of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

Here There Be Dragons
Odes[s]a: Center [центр]

Here There Be Dragons

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 36:33


After ten years of conducting interviews for Here There Be Dragons, there's one question that Jess particularly loves to ask: “Where is the heart of the city for you?” Usually, we wait until the end of the season to reveal the many hearts that residents leave all over their city maps. But in Odes[s]a, these hearts seemed to coalesce in one neighborhood in particular, the City Center. So, this episode kicks off not only this season, but also a two-part exploration of Odes[s]a's downtown with all its potentials and limitations. Instagram: @dragons_podcast Website: www.htbdpodcast.com Sign up for our newsletter: htbdpodcast.substack.com Record a question or comment for us and send to: htdbpodcast@gmail.com

Adam and Jordana
Could the City Center block be the new home for the Timberwolves?

Adam and Jordana

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 10:02


Nick Halter from Axios shares his idea for a new NBA arena in downtown Minneapolis.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Renewed Space, Timeless Practice

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 39:35


02/22/2025, Dōshin Mako Voelkel, dharma talk at City Center. Abiding Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel explores the dharma teachings of the past year-plus of renovation work, community cooperation and trying new forms.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Mind, Memory and the Fire

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 30:51


02/19/2025, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center. Anshi Zachary Smith asks “How can we study and engage with memory and mind processes in such a way that it allows for skillful, discerning activity?”

HALF HOUR with Jeff & Richie
ENCORES! URINETOWN - A Post Show Analysis

HALF HOUR with Jeff & Richie

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 31:11


In this episode, we dive into the City Center Encores! production of "Urinetown," the Tony Award-winning musical that blends political satire with catchy tunes. We explore how this unconventional show holds up in today's political climate, dissecting the effectiveness of its humor and the relevance of its themes. From standout performances to intriguing direction and design choices, we'll give you our take on whether this production makes a splash or needs a flush. Plus, we'll discuss City Center's role in reviving lesser-known musicals and speculate on Urinetown's future prospects. Is this production a refreshing stream of theatrical brilliance or does it leave audiences high and dry? Tune in for our thoughts on this unique piece of musical theater and what it reveals about the current state of Broadway. Follow and connect with all things @HalfHourPodcast on Instagram, and YouTube. Share your thoughts with us on "Urinetown" on our podcast cover post on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Online Zen Is Real Zen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 44:15


02/08/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center. Doshin Dan Gudgel offers suggestions and principles for providing and engaging in online practice, and celebrates the connection between ‘sacred' and ‘everyday' activities in Soto Zen.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

02/01/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord uses the lens of "The Harmony of Difference and Equality" by Shitou Xiqian, to unpack the relevance of remembrances such as Black History Month and how such events are not in conflict with our ultimate truth, that we are all one interconnected humanity.

FOX Sports Knoxville
The Drive HR 1 1.31.25: Food City Center Renovations Announced

FOX Sports Knoxville

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 30:46


Reacting to new Food City Center renderings and renovations Florida getting set to come into town this weekend Bearden busted for boosters paying coaches

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Embracing Our Connectedness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 36:56


01/18/2025, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. This talk by Jisan Tova Green weaves together themes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sermons, teachings of Zen ancestor Eihei Dogen and the late Hozan Alan Senauke, and stories from Tova's life.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

01/15/2025, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center. Anshi Zachary Smith examines two koans (Zen teaching stories) from the Blue Cliff Record that have to do with duality, and rice.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Way-Seeking Mind: Responding to the Cries of the World with Skillful Compassion

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 44:14


01/11/2025, Keiryu Liên Shutt, dharma talk at City Center. Keiryu Liên Shutt discusses how the hands and eyes of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, need to be directed towards ourselves, too. Especially in times of crisis.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Whole-Hearted, Open-Hearted

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 22:26


01/08/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, Shundo reflects on the qualities that practice can imbue us with, which are much needed in the world at this time.

Breaking Walls
BW - EP159—003: NYC In January 1956 With Johnny Dollar—Grace Kelly Gets Engaged

Breaking Walls

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 4:12


Support Breaking Walls at https://www.patreon.com/thewallbreakers It's a little after midnight on the morning of Monday January 9th. We're at P.J. Clarke's on the corner of 55th street and 3rd avenue, getting warm the best way we know how. The weather is nasty outside. It's about fifteen degrees with freezing rain and gale force winds. Clarke's is a bar from another time. It's wonderfully trapped in nostalgia—all burnished wood and chased mirrors. Orson Welles is opening King Lear at The City Center to good reviews. The years in Europe did him well, but he's happy to be back in New York. Welles is in the back with none other than Frank Sinatra. They've known each other since the 1930s, and since they both missed each other's fortieth birthdays last year, we're celebrating. Joining us is Jilly Rizzo and Bill Stern. The next round of drinks is on me. That's Daniel Levazzo. He bought the bar from the Clarke family a few years ago. Hey Dan, three Jacks straight up, a negroni for Orson, and I'll have Hendricks on the rocks. You want something? Hey Dan, let me borrow your phone, I've got to file my story. Hello Operator, give me CBS at 485 Madison Avenue please. (Beat) Yes I know what time it is. I'm a producer there. (Beat) Put me through. (Beat) Thank you. Some things never change. Hello Cindy, it's Scully. Is Ed Murrow still there? (Beat) Could you put me through to him? (Beat) Thank you. (Beat) Hey Ed, It's James Scully. I'm glad I caught you. Bill Paley's got you burning the midnight oil huh? (Beat) I did. Orson was good. I'm a P.J. Clarke's with him and Sinatra right now. Bill Stern's here too. You want to swing by? I'll get Dan Levazzo to break out the moonshine. (Beat) With those two? We'll be here a while. (Beat) Ha! Ok I'll see you soon. Ed Murrow's a good man. The gang will be happy to see him. Dan, Do me a favor, turn the TV up for a second. The Tonight Show with Steve Allen is just finishing on NBC-TV and there's a little news item on the tube before programming signs off. Everyone is talking about Grace Kelly's engagement to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. It was announced in Philadelphia on January 5th and their party is going to be at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here in New York. Grace and Rainier went their separate ways on Saturday. She's going back to Hollywood to keep working on High Society. The only thing is, one of her co-stars is Sinatra, and he'll be in no mood to fly to the coast tomorrow. That's not the only talk of love and marriage going on around New York City. Look at that Sunday Daily News cover. Heiress Juliette Wehle stood up her husband-to-be on their wedding day. She supposedly slipped away at 2AM wearing just a negligee to elope with another man. Don't worry, it's not a roving producer from CBS. The twenty-year-old heiress later returned home, unmarried. Excuse me, I'm missing out on the fun. Oh, before I go, I should say that the story of a woman jilting one man for another is ironically a centerpiece in the upcoming plot within Yours Truly Johnny Dollar's “The Todd Matter.” The first episode will air later tonight at 8:15PM over CBS radio. And remember, it stars Bob Bailey.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

01/04/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin asks: How does Zen training help us find a sense of refreshment in ordinary, simple activities?

VPM Daily Newscast
BizSense Beat: January 3, 2025

VPM Daily Newscast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2025 5:12


The 2025 BizSense Crystal Ball; A new mayor and city council; Plans for City Center and the Diamond District; and a lot of Dominion land up for grabs.

Breaking Walls
BW - EP159—002: NYC In January 1956 With Johnny Dollar—Orson Welles Returns To A Changing New York

Breaking Walls

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 8:29


Support Breaking Walls at https://www.patreon.com/thewallbreakers It's a cold, rainy Sunday evening on January 8th, 1956. We're heading south on Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Upper West Side. On the air is NBC's Monitor with a New World Today discussion about the differences in American life in the past twenty years. The United States is changing. Psychiatry is on the rise as the cold war rages onward. The internal Red Scare has subsided, but Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said this week that the U.S. won't stop testing nuclear weapons, despite pleas from Pope Pius XII on Christmas Day. While nuclear fears are understandable, the U.S. government thinks the USSR's presence in emerging nations means they can't be trusted to follow suit and stop their own testing. In Ecuador today, five evangelical American Christian missionaries were speared to death by members of the Huaorani people after attempting to introduce Christianity to them. Meanwhile, Algeria is in the midst of a war for Independence between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front. It began in November of 1954 and by now it's considered the world's only active war of note. It's a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and the use of torture. Gunsmoke is far and away radio's highest-rated dramatic show. It airs on CBS Sunday evenings with a Saturday afternoon repeat broadcast. The combined rating of 6.5 means somewhere between six and seven million people are still tuning in from their homes. When factoring in car and transistor radios, nearly ten million people are listening. CBS remains the home for the top-rated prime-time shows. Our Miss Brooks is pulling a rating of 4.3, and both Edgar Bergen and Two For The Money are pulling a 3.9. Meanwhile, on daytime radio, CBS has the twelve highest-rated programs. So where am I heading? I'm a roving CBS producer. I've worked on both coasts, including with Norman MacDonell on Gunsmoke in Hollywood, but last year programming directors Guy Della Choppa and Howard Barnes sent me back home to New York. I'm heading to the City Center at 131 West 55th street. I'm to cover a preview of Shakespeare's King Lear starring Orson Welles. It features Viveca Lindfors and Geraldine Fitzgerald and begins at 8:30PM. I helped with Welles' Omnibus production of Lear on CBS-TV in October 1953. I had drinks with him last week. He kept raving about two things: Carl Perkins' new hit, “Blue Suede Shoes,” and friend Jack Johnstone's production of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Johnstone directed Welles' Almanac series from the west coast during World War II. I phoned Jack yesterday. He had this to say. Jack was sure to mention that this week's upcoming Dollar story would take place in New York. If all goes well, Orson might be interested in returning to network radio in some capacity. Welles is once again a father. His daughter Beatrice was born last November 13th. He's been looking for more stable projects and wants to get dinner after the performance. Lear doesn't officially open until Thursday the 12th. The City Center was built as The Mecca Temple and opened in 1923. It's part of a small section of galleries, apartments, and performing spaces, but development is possibly encroaching. Last April, The Mayor's Slum Clearance Committee, chaired by Robert Moses, was approved to designate the area just west in Lincoln Square for urban renewal. The residents, many of them Hispanic, have been protesting the decision, but Robert Moses usually gets his way.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Harmony, Respect, Purity, Tranquillity

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2024 43:06


12/28/2024, Sozan Miglioli, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Miglioli explores the four fundamental principles of Wa, Kei, Sei, and Jaku—core teachings rooted in Zen and essential to the Way of Tea.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Solstice: In the Darkness There is Light

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 49:36


12/21/2024, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. On the occasion of the Winter Solstice, Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman delves into the themes of stillness, rest, liminality, and balance.

VPM Daily Newscast
BizSense Beat: December 20, 2024

VPM Daily Newscast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 5:10


Richmond's search for its preferred development team for the seemingly stagnant City Center redevelopment project is said to be down to one team and in final negotiations as the slow-moving process enters a third year; VCU Athletics' new hub near The Diamond took a step closer to becoming reality last week; and a startup that was spun out of MIT is planning to build what it hopes will be the world's first commercial nuclear fusion power plant in Chesterfield County.

VPM Daily Newscast
12/20/24 - New state ombudsman will investigate Red Onion

VPM Daily Newscast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 5:52


Plus: the state Department of Corrections is investigating Red Onion State Prison; the City of Richmond is negotiating with a City Center developer and potentially record-breaking travel numbers. 

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
The River of Transmission

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2024 29:07


12/18/2024, Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Roger Hillyard explores the idea of transmission — how it flows in all directions, how we experience it in our lives, and how Eihei Dogen wrote about it in “Twining Vines.”

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
In This Dark Time, Cherish All Beings, Including Yourself

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2024 35:06


12/14/2024, Zenki Mary Mocine, dharma talk at City Center. Zenki Mary Mocine asks: How should we practice with dis-ease, fear and even anger? Remember your connection with and compassion for all beings, including yourself.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Everything Is Connected

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 37:43


12/07/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. Jisan Tova Green weaves together several themes in this final talk of the City Center Fall 2024 Practice Period: welcoming beginner's mind and the ten ox-herding pictures, Buddha's enlightenment, and seeing our path of practice as a journey, not unlike Buddha's journey.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Zen at Work: Using Zen Principles in the Modern Work Day

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 48:27


11/30/2024, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord discusses where the concept of work practice came from in the Zen Buddhist tradition and how the principles found in the monastic setting can be used in any modern work context.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
The Creative Expedient of Liberating Narrative

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2024 37:03


11/16/2024, Paula Arai, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk by visiting teacher Paula Arai at Beginner's Mind Temple explores Buddhism from a woman's perspective, focusing on the liberating power of storytelling in sutras. Combining rigorous research and an embodied approach, Arai humanizes Buddhist women's experiences. She shared two stories—Queen Shrimala and "Bowing With the Dharma"—from her upcoming book, "Of Lotuses and Mud: Women Liberating Dharma".

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

11/23/2024, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk by former central abbot Rinso Ed Sattizahn examines Suzuki Roshi's open, inviting practice, and unpacks Wang Wei's poem “In my middle years…”

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

11/20/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. In this dharma talk by Fall 2024 practice period co-leader Jisan Tova Green, Tova investigates how it's possible to find inner freedom in a world in which so many beings are not free to fully be who they are.

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This Week on Broadway for November 3, 2024: Ragtime @ City Center

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 45:28


Sarah (Nichelle Lewis) and Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Joshua Henry) are ready to ride on “The Wheels of a Dream.” Photo by Joan Marcus Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about the Luna Stage production of Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library @ 59e59, Ragtime @ New York read more The post This Week on Broadway for November 3, 2024: Ragtime @ City Center appeared first on BroadwayRadio.