Podcast appearances and mentions of Ken Friedman

After surveying all of the available new Christmas and holiday themed music that I could find, I came up with a tidy playlist of nine noteworthy songs to share here in an episode that departs from our usual artist interview format. Here, we play full songs in several sets, with some back stories on each artist and song. Ranging from the elegant, folky take on “Coventry Carol” by The Milk Carton Kids to country leaning Americana in “Layaway Momma” from Adam Chaffins, to previous Southern Songs and Stories guest The Get Right Band and other fellow western NC artists, this episode celebrates an array of styles and perspectives on the season. With list in hand, little Joey Kendrick sits happily on Santa's lap across from sister Leigh, who ponders the validity of the this oddly formal and forced tradition. Circa 1976. Included here is a special from Christmas past, from my days producing the radio show What It Is on public radio WNCW, with founding panelists Jeff Eason and Fred Mills. We celebrated Jeff's life and many contributions to music and journalism after his passing in 2018 on this podcast, in the episode “Remembering Jeff Eason”. Following the music portion of this episode, we take you back fifteen years, to a time when What It Is was just two years old. You will hear a younger version of me (with a cold) talking by phone with Jeff and Fred in two short episodes, detailing some of our favorite holiday music as well as the Christmas and holiday music we would love to do without. Songs heard in this episode: Dulci Ellenberger “Colorful Christmas”Ana Egge “Silver Bells Ring” John Doyle and Mick McAuley “Gleann na-Ean”The Get Right Band “Christmas As A Kid”The Pinkerton Raid, “Happy XMas (War Is Over)”, from Winter Songs By Other PeopleAdam Chaffins “Layaway Momma” JD Clayton “Your Favorite Christmas Song” The Milk Carton Kids “Coventry Carol”, from Christmas In A Minor KeyJenn Grant “Bells Are Ringing”Thanks for listening! We hope you can help spread awareness of what we are doing. It is as easy as telling a friend and following this podcast on your platform of choice, so easy! You can find us on Apple here, and Spotify here — hundreds more episodes and many hundreds more artists await you. From there it takes just a moment to give us a top rating, and where it is an option, a review! It makes a great difference because the more top reviews and ratings we get, the more visible we become to everyone on those platforms, which means that more people just like you connect with artists like The Get Right Band, Dulci Ellenberger, John Doyle, and literally hundreds more we have profiled that are at your fingertips. Speaking of Silas Durocher and The Get Right Band, their episode from 2023 stands the test of time, and you can find that by looking up “Psychedelia in the Carolinas Then and Now With The Get Right Band and Ken Friedman” on southernsongsandstories.com, as well as the search feature on your podcast platform of choice. This series is a part of the lineup of both public radio WNCW and Osiris Media, with all of the Osiris shows available here. You can also hear new episodes on Bluegrass Planet Radio here. Thanks also to Jaclyn Anthony for producing the radio adaptations of this series on WNCW, where we worked with Joshua Meng, who wrote and performed our theme songs — you can link to his music here. This is Southern Songs and Stories: the music of the South and the artists who make it. - Joe Kendrick

THE SUMMER OF LOVE GIVES WAY TO PERVERSE MELODRAMAS, BLOODY HOME INVASIONS, NECROPHILIC HOUSEWIVES, AND…CARNIVOROUS BEDS?   After Night of the Living Dead (1968), but before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes decades – to be recognized by cult audiences for their unique contributions to American horror. Join Gabe and special guest Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast and numerous Blu-ray commentary tracks as they explore more independent horror films from the era.   This year's batch begins with Ken Friedman's' Death by Invitation (1971), Jacques Lacerte's Love Me Deadly (1972), Robert J. Emery's My Brother Has Bad Dreams (1972), George Barry's Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977), and Bill Gunns Ganja & Hess (1973). Stay tuned for six more titles in Part 2, live early next month.   Check out the original 2 part series here and  here.   00:00 – Intro 08:22 – Death by Invitation 23:45 – Love Me Deadly 44:16 – My Brother Has Bad Dreams 1:03:17 – Death Bed: The Bed that Eats 1:16:34 – Ganja & Hess   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Islamic Relief USE (Emergency Gaza fund) : https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

 On today's podcast: 1) Google's legal defeat at the hands of Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple Inc. that generates close to $200 billion a year and dictates how billions of consumers use mobile devices. 2) Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain in office after receiving backing from the University's highest governing body, according to a report from the college's student newspaper. 3) A monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report due Tuesday is set to show consumer prices were unchanged again in November, giving the Federal Reserve room to consider lower interest rates in the months ahead, according to Bloomberg Economics. Full Transcript:  Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. We want to begin this morning with an antitrust ruling that threatens to upend the mobile app economy. A federal jury in San Francisco has ruled in favor of video game developer Epic Games, declaring that Alphabet's mobile app store has a monopoly over distribution of programs and payments on its Android software. Like Apple's App store, Google Play charges up to thirty percent commissions for users, and it generates close to two hundred billion dollars a year. Bloomberg Executive editor Peter Elstrom says this was a surprise ruling after Epic lost a similar case against Apple two years ago, but he says there are some key differences. Google had a whole series of special deals that it was cutting with different companies from different fees within the app store. For example, Spotify, the music service, essentially bypass the fees from the Google App Store. In many cases, companies pay thirty percent fees. So the argument was that Google. Google had something that they called Project hug where they were trying to keep the most important apps within the store not go to rival stores that could compete against them in the Google Play Store, and Epic argued that this was at a competitive behavior. Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom says Alphabet plans to appeal the decision. Epic didn't seek financial penalties, but it is looking for changes to the Google Play Store. Well, we turned to Washington, now, Nathan, where the focus is on geopolitics and the fight over a foreign aid in Congress. Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenski is in Washington for a two day visit. He spoke alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the National Defense University yesterday. Process war on Ukraine isn't just about Is it just about some old fashioned dictatorship trying to settle scores real or imagined. It's not just Moscou trying to split Europe again. It's put him put in attacking that big sheet that happened back in nineteen eighty nine. And President Zelenski also met with the head of the International Monetary Fund, A christ Alina Georgiaeva, who announced the dispersal of nine hundred million dollars in aid. Selenski meets today with President Biden and Republican lawmakers. They refused to budge on about sixty billion dollars in new assistance without funds for the southern border. Well, Karen, the focus is also on the other major global conflict in the Middle East. President Biden is warning Israel that public support for its war against Hamas could shift as the civilian death told mounts in the Gaza strip. The President is still backing Israel's fight, as I said after the attack, Mike, commitment to the safety the Jewish people and the security of israel Is right to exist, is independent as an independitary state is just unshakable. President Biden spoke at a Whinehouse Honkka reception as his administration pushes Congress for new aid. Meanwhile, Nathan last Week's Congressional testimony over campus anti semitism continues to Royal higher education. More than seven hundred faculty members at Harvard University have signed a petition urging school leadership to resist political pressures, including calls for the removal of President Claudine Gay. More than a thousand students at alumni, including billionaire donors like Bill Lackman, are demanding this school replace her, and this morning, sources tell the school's newspaper at the Harvard Crimson, that Gay will remain in office. After receiving backing from the university's highest governing body, Gay in the heads of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania struggle to say directly that calling for the genocide of Jews violates school harassment policies. Liz McGill stepped down as Penn's president over the weekend. Sticking with politics, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear former President Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity over the Special Council's twenty twenty election interference case. Bloomberg Zed Baxter has that story. Special counsel Jacksmith filed the motion, saying it goes to the heart of democracy whether Donald Trump or any other president has what Trump has claimed as absolute immunity. Trump filed an appeal that would go to win Appellet Court, but Smith petitioned the highest court in the land to try to get an expedited ruling. It would end up there in any event. The fighting Mirk's the first time the Court has been asked to intervene in one of these cases on election interference. Regarding mister Trump, Smith is asked for the court to rule during this term, which ends in June. Ed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio, All right, ed, thanks. Elsewhere in politics, ousted former Congressman George Santos is in plea talk to the prosecutors, and Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons has the details. Prosecutors say in a filing that they're engaged in discussions with George Santos in hopes of resolving the matter without a trial. Santos was set to appear to hearing Tuesday. Santos is charged with multiple federal counts of stealing public funds and lying on federal disclosure forms. Two people tied to Santos's congressional campaign as former fundraiser and former treasurer, have both pleaded guilty to federal charges in Washington. Nancy Lyons, it's Bloomberg Radio. All right, Nancy, thank you. We have some major economic news on the calendar this morning. The November Consumer Price Index comes out at eight thirty Wall Street time. The final Federal Reserve meeting of the year kicks off today and we get the decision and Chair J. Powell's news conference tomorrow. Markets are looking for rate cuts next year. But Bloomberg Intelligence chief US interra strate Strategistyreg Jersey thinks Powell is going to push back. The Fed is still an inflation fighting mode, right and I think that they don't want the market to think that they're going to be cutting very early, because that's loosening financial conditions quite a lot. And because of that, the big risk is to markets on Wednesday is that they say, hey, we're probably not going to cut quite as aggressively as the market's thinking right now. In Bloomberg, Syra Jersey says, even if headline inflation meets market expectations, core CPI could remain elevated enough to keep rates on hold well into twenty twenty four. Tim how to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world with Bloomberg's Amy Morris. Good morning, Amy, Good morning, Nathan. Firefighters didn't find anyone trapped in the debris of that New York City apartment building yesterday. Part of the seven story building collapsed, leaving apartments exposed and walls just sheered off. Neighbors are stunned. Came from the top first and it just started falling down everywhere. I just see a lot of stuff just flying down. I don't even know the bullet and phone and tire really look was scared. I was, I'm thinking, you know, oh, everybody's okay. Fire officials say two people did suffer minor injuries while they were evacuating the damaged building. After a poll last week showed Mayor Eric Adams approval rating for a record low twenty eight percent, there's a new poll showing who could be the person to succeed Adams. Leading the list. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Political consultant Ken Friedman says Cuomo would be a viable candidate, and he tells WABC New York the timing for Adams is just awful. The migrant issue is a terrible problem for any mayor, to be fair, and I can't you know, I've thought about it a lot. And have you put you put LaGuardia in office now, I don't think he could handle this, or even Giuliani. Frankly, some observers say it's the migrant crisis that's hurting Adams more than anything else. Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's defamation case is underway in DC. Giuliani had earlier admitted he spread lies about two Georgia election workers, accusing them of manipulating ballots, but now as the case gets underway, Giuliani now denies that he likes when I testify, to get the whole story, and it will be definitively clear that what I said was true and that whatever happened to them, which is it's unfortunate if other people overreact, but everything I said about them is true. The hearing is to determine how much he owes for spreading the lies about the women. President Biden last week said he was willing to make significant compromises over border policy now before Congress breaks for winter recess. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told the White House in his Senate floor remarks, it would be imperative for any other Senate support mister President when it comes to keeping America safe. Border security is not a side show. It's ground zero. McConnell's latest push comes as Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelensky is scheduled to address the Senate. Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Amy Morrison. This is Bloomberg. Nathan, all right, Amy, thank you time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update, brought to you by Tri State Outy. Good morning, John Stanshout, Good morning, Nathan. The legend of Tommy Cutlet Stavino continues to grow. It's quite a story. Undrafted rookie quarterback latches on with his hometown team while still living with his parents. He goes from third string quarterback to first leads the Giants to three straight wins. Last night, DeVito ran for seventy one yards and he completed seventeen of twenty one passes, one per touchdown. Gasito in a shotguncept three receivers lacked partly news light Torino call signals and take what's the snack back to throw Woo's KOs White, Wo's Ques White looking for someone on cover crosse to the year zone touchdown Giants Hi Sea Hodgin on WFA N. Giants led the Packers by eight. Green Bay rally took the lead on a TV with a minute half to go, but de Veto drove the Giants into field goal range and they won twenty four to twenty two on a Randy Bullock thirty seven yarder. The Giants still just five and eight, but amazingly in the NFC, that's only one game out of a playoff spot. There were two Monday Nighters and the Titans of Dolphins also a thriller in Miami. Huge comeback by Tennessee down two touchdowns less than three minutes to go, they scored fifteen points a TV at two pointer or another TV fifty one seconds later. Tennessee won twenty eight twenty seven. Surprising details emerging about the show Aotani contract with the Dodgers. It is for seven hundred million dollars, but all but twenty million will be deferred and paid off starting in twenty thirty four. This allows the Dodgers to afford other players, and they're said to be in it for another Japanese import pitcher, y Ashinobo Yamamoto, who the Mets and Yankees also cover. Yanks met with him yesterday. Nixon Islanders both beat Toronto, the Nets lost in Sacramento. John Stash Edward Bloomberg sports from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias exam, the Bloomberg Business app and Bloomberg Dot com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. We could have a sea change coming to the way we access the apps that make our smartphones more than just phones. The federal jury in San Francisco has found that Alphabet's mobile app store Google Play is a monopoly after a nearly month long antitrust case with fortnitemaker Epic Games. For more on this what it could mean for the multi billion dollar mobile app economy, we are pleased to be joined by Bloomberg News technology reporter Mark Bergen Mark, Good morning. What are the implications from this victory for Epic Games? Morning? I mean the implications in one way is that Epic and many other kind of all these apps that charge for subscriptions or sort of in app services will be conceivably able to pass us along to consumers. They will just state that cut they were making that thirty percent over to Google. If the policy actually changes, is that something that they no longer have to make and so that those companies will either have more money for their own shareholders or that they can actually just charge cheaper rates to consumers. Interesting to see that potential implication when the whole idea of antitrust cases is to try to lower prices for consumers. But you're thinking that Epic and some other app providers that might be the opposite case for them. Oh no, no, and sorry, I mean I presumably they could lower prices here because this is money that like, that's the argument that Epic has been making, right, that they the reason they have to have the higher fees is because that they you know, every time someone buys something within the app Store for a thirty percent cost to the Apple in the play Store, thirty percent coast to Google. And so now they've been arguing in others that they can pass these savings along with cheaper cheaper rates, pass the savings along. Okay, yeah, for sure, let's get the miss here there. But Epic lost a similar fight against the Apple App Store two years ago. What made its case against Google play so different? It's a really interesting question because I know Google will certainly argue that they are a lot more open than Apple. I mean, Apple is, Google has Android was a bunch bigger. They have, like they have a different Samsung soa it has its own app store, and Huawei, these sort of hardware manufacturers. Google is that does allow other app stores to exist on Android phones in a way that that Apple just doesn't on iPhones. I mean this this u is a different political climate in some ways, Like Google is back against the ropes on a number of issues around around antitrust and both with its search position in its app store. And this something that that Fortnite has been an epic its owner has been working on for years. So does this verdict have applications then for the Apple App Store or any other providers that offer app stores on their platforms, or is it just you know, just for alphabet This is I mean, this is a this is a two company market in some ways, and in many ways Apple dominates, right, So so another company sort of gives us a full clarity about how much they make. But you know a lot of estimates show that Apple just makes so much more money from that's app store, like iPhone users spend a lot more money. So this is something that could certainly impact Apple. I think you know what Epic CEO Tim sweet Sciaty's after is not just a legal victory, but he's actually after a policy business practice change. He wants the business models and the app stores to fundamentally change, and they have been for for the past few years, both Apple and Google have lowered the fees they take for some subscription services like Netflix, and they've made some concessions and been forced to make concessions and other markets. So I think, you know, we can also see that after the ruling, Google came out and said there they're contesting this, so they're certainly not going now without a fight. How difficult to fight is it going to be? Though? On appeal? I mean, we've been speaking to some legal experts that say the bar is set pretty high for Google to try to overcome the difficulties that faced the trial. Google has many well paid and veteran lawyers there you go, and outside law firms, so I don't doubt that they'll actually have enough kind of a legal fire part to keep fighting this if this does stand. Though, Mark, what kind of hit does Google stand to take from revenue? I mean, thirty percent fees is nothing to sneeze at, that's correct, But this is still a small portion of their overall business, right like this has something this has not impact their cash cow search search advertising, and then from there they make some farmer money on YouTube ads, on display ads across the Internet and the cloud business, and you know this is around the same down in the and the sort of they blump everything together with their hardware businesses like Google, Pixel and Nest Devices and then play Store. So it's not insignificant certainly for any of the companies that that's not an alphabet size. But as you see, I don't as far as I know, shares didn't drop tremendously on this news, and I think that's in part because the markets are aware that, you know, Google is this behemoth that has a lot of different lines of businesses and at the same time, Google's facing anti trust action from the Justice Department over search, particularly on cell phones where the app store, where the Google play Store lives. So in our last minute, could this case have implications for for that case, or it's trying to make maintain its search dominance on cell phones. I think. I mean, this certainly gives more ammunition to critics like Epic Games and Company and Spotify has been a critic of sapster model and companies that have been kind of willing to come out and take positions around and complains the Justice Department to the FTC. And so I think in that political sense, yeah, it certainly puts Google further back on its speed. All right, thanks for this, Mark, really good to get the clarity on this pretty important decision. With Epic Games winning its anti trust fight against Alphabet over the Google Place store. Mark Bergen covers tech for Bloomberg News. Now let's turn to geopolitics and the rising stakes for both Ukraine and its defense against Russia and Israel's fight against Hamas. Today, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski will continue to press his case for renewed aid multi billion dollars in aid to his country. He's going to be speaking directly to lawmakers in Washington, Whileen is warning Israel that public opinion could shift if the war in Gaza continues to take a severe civilian toll. And for more on all this, we're joined by Bloomberg News Senior editor Derek Wallbank. Derek, I know you've been monitoring President Zelenski's trip to Washington. This is day two. He's been speaking to the National Defense University, the International Monetary Fund as well. What should we expect as the Ukrainian president meets today with US President Biden and those lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Well, I think he's got a very tough job ahead of him. The aid to Ukraine is currently stalled amid package negotiations over aid to Israel, as well as Republican demands for increased border security measures. Zelenski walks into that fight, I think, in a much weaker position than he was in the last time that he was in Washington. Remember, he got received with somewhat rapturous crowds. He had addresses to US lawmakers. It was a whole it was a whole thing. For lack of a more technical term, it's not so much that in case. Right now, I think there is rising skepticism, especially on the right, over the over the war in general. There is somewhat of an increased appetite in Washington. You know, maybe not a majority opinion, but certainly a sizeable opinion uh that that this war needs to find an off ramp. And unfortunately for Zelenski, he's caught a bit between a rock and a hard place, because on the on the Washington side, you're talking about a difficulty with Republicans who, in fairness, may be trying to simply extract something rather than actually hold this up indefinitely. On the other side, in Europe, you've got he's having problems with Victor ORBN in h in Hungary, gumming up some of the aids there. And between those two things, you are seeing new aid pledges to Ukraine reach a substantial low compared to where it was earlier this year or even late last year. I mean, we're hearing some of the rhetoric from President Scolensky sounding quite a bit more dire if he doesn't get this aid, talking about the threat it could post a democracy if Russia's hand were to be improved by Ukraine not receiving this aid. What about that? Could that change any minds? Do you think on Capitol Hill, this idea that this is still a fight for democracy in Ukraine. Yeah, well, I think the number one mind that I'm particularly interested to see is the new US House speaker. Right, remember that, if we go all the way back, and it's not actually that far back, but to when Kevin McCarthy was speaker, there were some talks in the last funding as part of the last funding negotiations that Ukraine aid would be brought up at some point. Then, of course McCarthy stops being speaker. All of his promises go right out the window, and in comes Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Well, Johnson was quite a Ukraine skeptic before he took the speakership and before he started getting those confidential security briefings that speakers do get. Johnson was telling the Wall Street Journal CEO Forum just last night that he's going to have a message for his Zelenski to basically say, look, we've got to get all of this done together. He said he's going to tell them the same thing in private that he's saying in public. Sure, fine, that's all good. The question that I'm really interested in it is what is Mike Johnson's price for putting something on the house floor. If he put something on the house floor, it's probably going to pass. That's just the math of it. But Johnathan have got a difficulty because he's got to deal with his conference, and his conference is going to want things out of this how much? That's the critical question. What do you make of the you shift in rhetoric? It seems like we're hearing from President Biden when it comes to the stance toward Israel and the mounting civilian death toll. Well, Joe Biden warned at a Honika reception that a public opinion can shift on the war. Certainly, I think Biden has seen public opinion kind of sour a little bit on his own handling. Some of that is from within his own party. Some of his big supporters are are disappointed with how closely he has tied himself to Israel. At the same point, some people on the other side, of the more central side of the Democratic Party would say he hasn't done it enough. So he is in a very difficult political position on this, But as a matter of straight fact, he is right. You know, there is a risk as Israel prosecutes the war that the mounting civilian tolls could create a public a public relations problem for Israel in some of the country is that are backing them up, specifically in the United States. So that is a warning that he's been trying to do. But the problem is is that if you try, and politically speaking here, if you try and have it both ways, sometimes you wind up having it neither way. And the White House right now doesn't really have a ton of friends across the political spectrum with how it's been handling this, because each side would say that somebody else is doing it better or that they're not doing quite enough. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed at six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street Time on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York, Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington, Bloomberg one oh six to one in Boston, and Bloomberg ninety sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon Election devices. Just say Alexa play Bloomberg eleven thirty plus. Listen coast to coast on the Bloomberg Business app, Serious XM, the iHeartRadio app, and on Bloomberg dot Com. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Join us again tomorrow morning for all the news you need to start your day right here on Bloomberg DaybreakSee 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Conversations with Silas Durocher of The Get Right Band and Ken Friedman of the Psychedelic States: The Carolinas in the 60s compilation, with musical excerpts and commentary.

TRUE HOUSE STORIES® W/ BOBBY SHAW # 103 Bobby Shaw's start in dance music began in 1977 as a bartender in the highly successful discotheque, The Barefoot Boy. There he became close friends with DJ Tony Smith and was fortunate to experience and hear the likes of disc jockeys Roy Thode, Vince Michaels, Larry Sanders, and Wayne Scott, to name a few. During this tenure, he also got to know dance promoters such as Ray Caviano, Ken Friedman, Billy Smith, Alan Mamber, Starr Arning, and Rita Heyer. In 1978, Shaw's passion for music led him to seek a job within the dance community and he was able to land a mail room position for Ray Caviano at TK Records. While at the label, Shaw assisted on notable acts as Voyage, Peter Brown, The Ritchie Family, T Connection, Beautiful Bend, KC and The Sunshine Band, Jimmy "Bo" Horne, Anita Ward, and Bobby Caldwell.Bobby's old mentor, Ray Caviano, was rewarded with a custom dance label, RFC Records, which was distributed through Warner Bros. Records and Shaw joined him in 1979 as a regional promotion person. Although Caviano was later dismissed from his role, Shaw stayed on at WB until 1984. While there, he promoted future dance music classics from Gino Soccio, Change, Kraftwerk, Laid Back (discovering and mixing the classic 12" White Horse), The Time, Prince, Chaka Khan, Patti Austin, Janice McClain, Stargard, Talking Heads, and the Tom Tom Club. Perhaps most noteworthy though was his relationship with Madonna as he helped guide her through the early stages of her career with Michael Rosenblatt and Mark Kamins. Shaw helped set up Madonna's early club gigs and was her promotion person for the early masterpieces Everybody, Physical Attraction, Holiday, and Burning Up. In 1984, MCA Records' executives Richard Palmese and Jheryl Busby took notice of Shaw's work at Warner Brothers and they created a national dance music promotion manager's position for him. He remained there until 1998 and during that time span he became the first corporate vice president of dance music promotion at any label. Shaw's experience was the backbone for bringing such luminaries as Elton John, Patti LaBelle, Dan Hartman, Bronski Beat, New Edition, Stephanie Mills, Fine Young Cannibals, The Jets, Londonbeat, Colonel Abrams, and Tracy Lords to the dance floors of the world. In addition, Shaw became the only record company executive to ever win the AIR competition as he took that honor in 1986. In 1999, Shaw started his own promotion company, Bobby Shaw Promotions and he is doing it still today. As well he is involved with a Weekly Twitch Show under the name BobbyPromo. His shows are quite delightful and each show is like a history lesson when you listen to the music he chooses and you experience watching him.

I början av 1960-talet vände den avantgardistiska konströrelsen FLUXUS upp och ner på konstvärlden. Nu visas verk av en av medlemmarna, Ken Friedman, på Kalmar konstmuseum. Vad betyder Fluxus idag? Samtal med konstkritiker Mårten Arndtzén. MUSEERNAS HEMLIGHETER: RINGEN MED TROLLFORMELN1933 hittades i skånska Tågarp en guldring från 1500-talet med en inskription på insidan – en trollformel. Frågan är vad den innebär? Vad är den bra för – eller emot? I serien Museernas hemligheter undersöker reporter Mattias Berg museiföremålen som bär på frågor och mysterier.REPORTAGE: HANNA HELQUISTS DUKNING SOM KONSTKan dukning vara konst? Krönikören - och dukningsfantasten - Hanna Hellquist lät en handfull konstnärer duka varsitt bord. Resultatet blev utställningen "Det dukade bordet" på Millesgården i Stockholm.Prgramledare: Lisa Wall Producent: Eskil Krogh Larsson

Ken Friedman used to book some of the hottest bands in the Bay Area--until he decided he wanted to open a restaurant instead. Turns out he was pretty good at that, too. Now Ken owns a slew of restaurants in New York including The Spotted Pig, John Dory Oyster Bar, Salvation Taco, White Gold, and more. In this week's episode, he talks about his vision for an English gastropub with actually good food (thanks to chef April Bloomfield), how he got some of the music industry's biggest names to invest in that vision, and drinking beer with U2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=7048CINQUANT'ANNI FA LE MARTELLATE SULLA PIETA' DI MICHELANGELO di Valerio PeceAlle undici e mezza del mattino del 21 maggio 1972, un uomo si fa largo tra la folla di pellegrini, schiva cinque guardie, si arrampica sulla balaustra e al grido di «sono Gesù Cristo!» e sferra dodici colpi di martello sulla Pietà di Michelangelo. Il suo nome è Laszlo Toth, geologo australiano di origini ungheresi. I colpi mandano totalmente in frantumi il braccio sinistro della Vergine e scheggiano gravemente il naso, l'occhio sinistro e il velo.Quel giorno di 50 anni fa il mondo puntò gli occhi sul gruppo scultoreo posto all'inizio della navata destra della basilica di San Pietro. Prima di essere ricoperta da un drappo, poco dopo le 14, la Pietà venne visitata da Papa Paolo VI. Dal New York Times si legge che il Pontefice bresciano «apparve nella Cappella della Pietà per ispezionare i danni. Si inginocchiò brevemente per pregare davanti alla scultura vandalizzata. Poi indossò gli occhiali mormorando con un'espressione più seria del solito: "Sono gravissimi anche i danni morali"». Le cronache raccontano che dopo aver benedetto in silenzio la folla radunata davanti alla cappella, Paolo VI fece collocare davanti alla Pietà il mazzo di rose bianche e gialle che gli era stato donato quella mattina, domenica di Pentecoste.UN RESTAURO PERFETTOIl restauro della scultura realizzata a ridosso del giubileo del 1500 - quando il cardinale Jean Bilhères commissionò al giovane Buonarroti «una Vergine Maria vestita con Cristo morto, nudo in braccio» - diede risultati insperati. I timori iniziali degli esperti erano più che fondati: le martellate inferte avevano fatto cadere una cinquantina di frammenti più o meno grandi, alcuni completamente polverizzati, come quelli della palpebra sinistra. L'asso nella manica, per quella che all'epoca molti consideravano un'impresa impossibile, fu il calco di gesso dell'opera, realizzata nel 1933 e conservato nei Musei Vaticani. Fu grazie all'utilizzo di quella copia dimenticata che l'équipe di restauratori (tutti italiani) poté ottenere le matrici per realizzare le parti mancanti. Sebbene a distanza ravvicinata può intravedersi un leggerissimo ingiallimento rispetto al marmo dell'opera (il timore era che, con l'invecchiamento naturale del marmo, le protesi sarebbero saltate all'occhio in maniera molto più evidente), a distanza di 50 anni il restauro continua a regalare all'opera un aspetto assolutamente omogeneo.Laszlo Toth, capelli lunghi e barba rossiccia, dopo di versi minuti di violenza inaudita, fu prima bloccato da un vigile del fuoco, quindi immediatamente arrestato. Sandro Barbagallo, curatore delle collezioni storiche dei Musei Vaticani, per spiegare il ritardo con cui l'autore del gesto fu fermato, ha riferito con candido realismo che «i fedeli erano sotto shock, tanto che nessuno capì realmente cosa stesse succedendo». L'entità dei crimini commessi avrebbe dovuto portare ad una reclusione di nove anni. I giudici, però, ritennero Toth infermo di mente, così, dopo due anni passati in un manicomio italiano, il geologo con brama d'artista fu trasferito in Australia. Da allora se ne sono perse le tracce.Il suo nome, però, sopravvive ancora, specie in certi ambienti artistici di area radicale, in cui Toth viene evocato come un innovatore. Donald Novello, attore e regista italo-americano (noto per aver creato la figura di padre Guido Sarducci, uno dei personaggi più longevi del Saturday Night Live) ha intitolato un suo libro Le lettere di Laszlo. Ken Friedman, compositore americano, ha scritto un oratorio musicale in onore di Laszlo Toth. Esiste perfino una Scuola d'arte, la Laszlo Toth School of Art, che elogia «l'artista del martello», il quale - si legge sul sito - «ha modellato alcune sculture popolari di Michelangelo a una sensibilità più moderna». Un altro intellettuale debitore di chi ha vandalizzato la Pietà Vaticana è Roger Dunsmore, docente di letteratura all'Università del Montana, vincitore di diversi premi di poesia. Dunsmore ha pubblicato un libro-omaggio dal titolo inequivocabile, Laszlo Toth, in cui, tra gli altri, spicca questo verso: «Dove sei Laszlo Toth, dal martello gentile?».VIOLENZA DELIRANTECosa spinse Laszlo Toth a scagliarsi con quella violenza sulla Pietà michelangiolesca non è così semplice da dire (le suore spagnole, responsabili dell'ostello per pellegrini dove Toth visse negli ultimi quattro mesi, riferirono che il geologo era stato «un ospite modello»). Se certi sfregi alle opere d'arte sono dovuti all'azione di squilibrati, altre volte la causa è il puro teppismo. Altre volte ancora - ma sono categorie interscambiabili - i danni alle opere d'arte sono opera di artisti falliti, che riversano la loro insoddisfazione sui capolavori altrui. Celebre è il caso di Pietro Cannata, ex studente di estetica e pittore mancato, autore di una serie-record di sfregi. Non pago di aver rotto il dito del piede sinistro al David di Michelangelo, ha prima scarabocchiato con un pennarello "Sentieri ondulati", quadro di Pollock, per poi vandalizzare, nel duomo di Prato, "Le esequie di Santo Stefano" di Filippo Lippi.Per cercare di capire come si comporta il nostro cervello di fronte ad un capolavoro, da non molti anni le neuroscienze hanno cominciato a interessarsi di arte. Ursula Valmori - esperta del ramo e collaboratrice di State of Mind, rivista di scienze psicologiche - scrive: «Il corpo del fruitore reagisce come se fosse esso stesso direttamente coinvolto nella scena raffigurata». Ciò è risultato con maggiore evidenza soprattutto dopo lo studio dei neuroni-specchio, «capaci», spiega Valmori, «di elaborare, contemporaneamente, una rappresentazione dei propri atti e di quelli altrui».Se la Pietà di Michelangelo, simbolo di bellezza ed armonia, ha potuto provocare turbamenti così violenti da arrivare a quello scandaloso atto vandalico, il motivo va forse ricercato nella perfezione con cui Michelangelo, a soli 23 anni, impressionò il suo tempo. Troppa era la bellezza di quel Cristo, sorretto da una Vergine così dolce e giovane da essere, anche in quel marmo di Carrara, "figlia del suo figlio".

Bio Podcast This is the podcast to watch if you ever wanted to play pickleball or enjoying the game now. Ken is the 2021 Pickleball Global USA and World ranking of #1 in men's 60 singles for the entire year. Ken and I talk about starting to play, coming from tennis, tips for gear as well as for offense ad defense games. I asked "What makes pickleball the greatest game ever.

Dr.  Ken Friedman, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ. Dr. David Maughan, Ph.D. is a Research Professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT. who has been … More ... The post Dr. Ken Friedman and Dr. David Maughan – ME/CFS and Long Haul Covid Similarities and Ramifications appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

In honor of Black History Month, we invited special guest, Ken Friedman on the podcast to share the untold story of how Willie Cooper broke the color line at the University of North Carolina in 1964. Ken worked behind the scenes under legendary coaches Frank McGuire and Dean Smith, and in this episode he sets […]

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Ken Friedman and David Roosa of Friedman | Rubin (https://friedmanrubin.com/)   Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review   Episode Details: Friedman Rubin trial lawyers Ken Friedman and David Roosa share their experience trying the first federal Zoom civil jury trial during the pandemic and explain how they secured justice for an 84-year-old woman who sustained a traumatic brain injury on a Holland America cruise ship. In November 2018, passenger Margaret Dallo was walking down a hallway on the ship when she was knocked over by a door opening outward into the hallway. Margaret fell and hit her head on the frame of the door across the hall, resulting in a bilateral subacute subdural hematoma, which allowed blood inside the skull and put pressure on her brain. Margaret's traumatic brain injury required surgery and greatly diminished her mobility and quality of life. In spite of the defense's attempts to blame her medical condition on pre-existing conditions and previous falls, Seattle jurors participating via Zoom conference ultimately ruled in favor of the plaintiff, awarding $1,689,000 in damages.   Click Here to Read/Download the Complete Trial Documents   Guest Bios: Ken Friedman Since joining Friedman | Rubin in 1999, Ken has appeared on behalf of plaintiffs in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He has successfully tried cases involving claims of sexual harassment, defamation, personal injury, police misconduct, and insurance bad faith. Ken earned his B.A. in History from Antioch College and his J.D. from New York University School of Law. A well-respected attorney, he has been given the highest rating, “AV Pre-eminent,” by the Martindale Hubbell, and he has been designated as a  “Super Lawyer” by his peers in the Washington Law and Politics survey annually since 2009.  Ken also has been rated a “10, Superb” by Avvo.com. Read Full Bio   David Roosa David primarily handles cases involving serious personal injury, traumatic brain injury (“TBI”), insurance bad faith denial of benefits, and nursing home abuse. David has jury trial experience in state, federal, and municipal courts. David and Friedman | Rubin partner Ken Friedman recently obtained a $1.7m verdict in the Western District of Washington's first ever fully remote jury trial, in which the judge, the jury, the attorneys, and the witnesses all participated via Zoom. (See Bloomberg Law report – here]. David also occasionally tries criminal cases, and has obtained two defense verdicts in 2015, and another in 2017, for wrongfully accused citizens. At the appellate level, David has briefed a number of cases before Washington Division I and Division II court of appeal commissioners, and authored (uncredited) the prevailing briefs in the Wyoming Supreme Court case Irene v. Seneca, et. al., 337 p.3d 483 (Wyo. 2014). David grew up in Alaska and graduated from West Anchorage High School in 1997. After high school, he spent one year as a Rotary International Exchange Student in Rostock, Germany. Upon returning to the U.S., David studied at the Ohio State University and graduated in 2002 with a B.S. in International Business and a B.A. in German Language and Literature. David then spent roughly two years in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, at the Centro ISI English Academy through the AIESEC program teaching English to adults and children. Before starting a career in the legal field, David worked for three years as a Licensed Customs Broker and Ocean Import Manager for a global logistics/freight-forwarder and NVOCC in Chicago, IL. David lives with his wife and two sons in West Seattle. His hobbies include competitive running and swimming, outdoor grilling, watching Ohio State football games in the fall, and playing the guitar – badly. Read Full Bio   Show Sponsors: Legal Technology Services - LTSatlanta.com Digital Law Marketing - DigitalLawMarketing.com Harris, Lowry, and Manton - hlmlawfirm.com   Free Resources: Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1 Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2

Ken Friedman is the Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs at LegalZoom. LegalZoom is one of those companies that almost needs no introduction - it's the nation's leading provider of personalized, online legal solutions and legal documents for small businesses and families.  Ken attended UC San Diego, where he earned his B.A. in political science and communications; He then went on to earn his J.D. at USC Gould School of Law; After law school, Ken spent nine years working for Sidley Austin, LLP in the firm's litigation group, where he handled consumer class action defense, products liability, unfair competition and business practices, breach of contract, and other matters; Ken then moved on to LegalZoom, where his areas of responsibility includeareas of responsibility include risk management, government relations, corporate transactions, litigation, intellectual property, employment issues, crisis communications, advertising review, and corporate regulatory compliance. Help us grow! Leave us a rating and review - it's the best way to bring new listeners to the show. Don't forget to subscribe! Have a suggestion, or want to chat with Jim? Email him at Jim@ThePoliticalLife.net  Follow The Political Life on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for weekly updates.

In this episode we discuss Ken Friedman the Coward, robots in the kitchen, New York's banning of cashless restaurants and a new heartwarming restaurant Christmas special for everyone.

Tonight we talk rare food allergies, Ken Friedman's employee and customer abuse case settlement, music about food and Michigan roads.  Because of course we do.

On January 7, Trish Nelson and her former colleagues from the Spotted Pig gathered around a podium in the offices of New York State Attorney General Letitia James to announce the end of a months-long investigation that uncovered a hostile work environment and "severe and pervasive incidents of unwanted touching and unwelcome sexual advances" by majority owner Ken Friedman. While the settlement provided some closure for the former employees, there's still a tremendous amount of work left to do to if they want to heal personally and move the industry to a healthier, safer place. Nelson sat down with me for a raw, emotional conversation about the culture of fear that keeps vulnerable workers from speaking out, her decision to break the silence, and her hope for the future of the industry she loves. Note: This episode contains mentions of emotional and sexual abuse. If you need to talk to someone, Crisis Text Line is available 24/7 at #741741 or via Facebook Messenger, and The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network's (RAINN) counselors can be reached at 800-656-HOPE. Note: This episode contains mentions of emotional and sexual abuse. If you need to talk to someone, Crisis Text Line is available 24/7 at #741741 or via Facebook Messenger, and The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network's (RAINN) counselors can be reached at 800-656-HOPE. https://www.foodandwine.com/news/spotted-pig-sexual-harassment-settlement

We say hello to the year 2019 with our first batch of new music for the podcast, almost all of which has a direct connection to the states of North Carolina and Texas. A nice coincidence, really. We bring back DJ For A Day with music historian and rare vinyl hunter Ken Friedman who produced the Tobacco Au-Go-Go series, and Ken has a mysterious 45 from Spindale that we are trying to figure out. We will also share some stories and some songs from his Tobacco Au-Go-Go compilations.

Special correspondent Meghan McCarron discusses the last few weeks in crazy Ken Friedman news. Read the NY Mag Gabrielle Hamilton piece here. Read the NYTimes April Bloomfield piece here. Hosted by: Daniel Geneen and Amanda Kludt. Sign up for Kludt’s newsletter here and complain to us upsell@eater.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

@page { margin: 0.79in } p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120% } In which Mario Batali & Ken Friedman might go to jail, Sliders & Quantum Leap get a crossover reboot & Papa John Schnatter accuses Big Bird of using the n-word.

This message was preached by guest pastor Ken Friedman at the Fredericksburg Full Gospel Fellowship.

Has Gabrielle Hamilton broken Ken Friedman out of #metoo jail (00:30)? New York City has banned activated charcoal usage in all foods (6:00). The Museum of Ice Cream has been deemed an environmental hazard by the city of Miami Beach (11:00). Pop Culture editor Greg Morabito caches us up on the 3+ weeks since Anthony Bourdain's passing (14:50). This month in why Yelp sucks (19:00). Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of a Red Hen restaurant and people went nuts (23:30). Madame Tussaud is opening a Hangover themed bar in Las Vegas (27:20). The World's 50 Best Restaurants is still a terrible list; why do we cover it (32:20)? Hosted by: Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen. Sign up for Amanda Kludt’s newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Kelly and Lillian discuss the misuse of service dogs in restaurants by rich people, Ken Friedman and Gabrielle Hamilton, and round it out with a couple tales of their own worst service mistakes. Truly a wild ride!

Anderson Cooper speaks with the alleged sex assault victims of restaurateurs Mario Batali and Ken Friedman.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christina Lecki worked side-by-side with star chef April Bloomfield for seven years at three different Ken Friedman-owned restaurants before becoming executive chef of Brooklyn's Reynard last year. In this podcast, Lecki comments on sexual harassment, improving kitchen culture and using one's own fear as a motivator. Listen in to also hear what she's learned from some of the best chefs in the world, like Francis Mallmann, the wood-fire genius of South America. Speaking Broadly is powered by Simplecast

Don’t expect April Bloomfield’s signature burgers at The Hearth & Hound in Hollywood. Instead, Jonathan Gold wants diners to try the cabbage.

Interview with author, Hannah Howard, ex-employee of Ken Friedman and New York city food writer. In the interview she discusses how working for this infamous restaurateur was the worst six weeks of her life. She also discusses her book, Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen, a struggle of juggling working in the food world while battling an eating disorder.

In response to recent allegations as reported by The New York Times against Ken Friedman and involving our current cover subject, Chef April Bloomfield, we present a special episode dedicated to addressing the issue of sexual harassment and how we can move forward as a community. We talk to chef/restaurateur Preeti Mistry of Navi Kitchen and Juhu Beach Club, restaurateur Martha Hoover of Patachou Inc., and Ovenly CEO Erin Patinkin about the culture at their organizations and the policies and procedures they’ve put in place to create humane, respectful workplaces. Radio Cherry Bombe is powered by Simplecast

Hey hey, it's Food Republic Today! We kick off this episode with breaking news - the NYT's exposé of horrific sexual misconduct allegations against Ken Friedman (0:26) - followed by Pepsi and Anheuser-Busch pre-ordering Tesla semi truck for their fleets (4:31) and the best drinking city in America: Minneapolis (5:59)! Next, we talk meat and threes, potato chips, and all things Nashville with Prima's Andy Little (7:38). We wrap up with comedian Aparna Nancherla recalling her first potluck (26:24).

Recorded in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017. SWF co-sponsored, with the National Space Weather Partnership, the 2017 the Space Weather Enterprise Forum. This year’s theme was "Implementing a National Space Weather Partnership.” The forum brought together a blended audience of space weather experts from both research and operations, space weather users from the public and private sectors, academia, international representatives, and policy makers. One of the event objectives was continuing outreach and education to raise awareness of space weather effects on systems and humans and to provide information on available services. Speakers Ms. Kenyetta Blunt, Chief, Recovery Planning Branch, Federal Emergency Management Agency Mr. Ralph Stoffler, Director of Weather, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters, US Air Force Dr. Ken Friedman, Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Department of Energy Mr. Mark MacAlester, Telecommunications Specialist and National Response Coordinator in the Disaster Emergency Communications Division at FEMA Moderator: Mr. Jack Anderson, Department of Homeland Security More details, including transcripts, can be found at the event page on the SWF website.

On this week's show, we kick it back to the keynote panel of Food Book Fair 2017! "What We Talk About When We Talk About Eating" explored what it means to be engaged in the business, pleasure and politics of food today. Recorded on-site at Ace Hotel New York on May 12th by our friends at Public Announcement. Featured speakers: Ken Friedman, restaurateur Samin Nosrat, chef, author and teacher Mario Batali, chef, author, educator, TV host Myisha Priest, associate professor, New York University, author Moderated by Frank Bruni, author, The New York Times columnist

This week we are very happy to present the keynote panel from the 2017 Food Book Fair, recorded live from Liberty Hall at the Ace Hotel New York. The discussion was moderated by Frank Bruni and featured panelists Mario Batali, Samin Nosrat, Myisha Priest, and Ken Friedman. They explored what it means to be engaged in the business, pleasure and politics of food today. This episode also features another pod-collab with our man in the field, Jason Stewart, aka Them Jeans. Jason interviewed authors, chefs, and a few innocent bystanders from the always poppin lobby of the Ace Hotel. Catch the long-form version of Jason's interviews on the latest episode of The Stew. Show Page: http://publicannouncement.org/episode/food-book-fair-2017/

Today’s guests are two boundary breaking women in the food world—butchers Erika Nakamura and Jocelyn Guest. They are the co-owners of White Gold Butchers, a new hot spot on the Upper West Side of New York that’s both a butcher shop and a cozy neighborhood restaurant. Erika, who was born and raised in Tokyo, got into butchery after working in some of New York’s top kitchens. Jocelyn, meanwhile, is an Army brat who moved every summer until she was 13. Prior to finding her calling, Jocelyn was a comedy writer. We’ll talk about their careers, what it’s like to work with their co-owners Chef April Bloomfield and rock-n-roll restaurateur Ken Friedman, and how they find mindful farm partners. But sure to check out the farm section of their website to see how seriously they take sourcing.

Ken Friedman used to book some of the hottest bands in the Bay Area--until he decided he wanted to open a restaurant instead. Turns out he was pretty good at that, too. Now Ken owns a slew of restaurants in New York including The Spotted Pig, John Dory Oyster Bar, Salvation Taco, White Gold, and more. In this week's episode, he talks about his vision for an English gastropub with actually good food (thanks to chef April Bloomfield), how he got some of the music industry's biggest names to invest in that vision, and drinking beer with U2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Friedman, the music industry hot shot turned restauranteur, has that kind of cool you just have to be born with. Together with chef April Bloomfield, he has reshaped the New York dining scene with his particular take on the English gastropub. Ken stopped by the Upsell studios in LA to chat with Greg about how he ended up in the restaurant business, the origins of The Spotted Pig, how to be cool at parties, and how much he hates staring at exposed filament lightbulbs. Get the full transcript for this episode (and all Eater Upsell episodes) at eater.com/upsell ... and check us out on twitter! Ken: twitter.com/kennewyork Helen: twitter.com/hels Greg: twitter.com/gregmorabito Eater: twitter.com/eater Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes Alice Waters the most punk rock person in food? We’ve got Ken Friedman here to explain. He and Chef April Bloomfield, his business partner, are responsible for some of the hottest spots around, including New York’s The Spotted Pig, the Breslin Bar & Dining Room, The John Dory Oyster Bar, Salvation Taco, and White Gold, as wella s San Francisco’s Tosca. Ken wasn’t always a restaurateur. A Los Angeles native, he attended UC Berkeley and got caught up in the music scene. He went on to work with the legendary Bill Graham and even managed The Smiths at the end of their short but epic career. Tune in to hear all about the connection between restaurants and rock ‘n’ roll.

As every Jew across the world knows, there is always an oven waiting – not at Lowe’s, not at the pizza place down the block – but at some camp where they don’t play volleyball, they just play it like a death match. The Citizen just isn’t interested in getting that tanned. He also isn’t interested in eating pastrami to the point of no return or to the point the scale goes past 400 pounds. Or is he interested anymore in playing cards with nudniks (pestering, irritating people in Yiddush), who sit and eat potato chips by the bag and take his money like it was manna from Heaven. Still, there’s always some Jew who’s headed on the way to baking – and not matzahs – like some related to the President-Elect that The Citizen look to as not the canary, but the Jew in the coal mine. In this episode of “I Am Citizen Abels,” recorded November 28, 2016, The Citizen goes into the post to face off in a basketball game of words with his old very good-looking friend and former coworker, Ken Friedman, the nudnik in chief at local card games and kosher eating faceoffs. Ken’s memory suddenly goes blank when The Citizen mentions his former employer – Israeli shipping company, Zim - whose shipping containers contain various items that we obviously just don’t talk about. And Harry, Ken’s 18-year-old son who was shipped in a container off to Israel – well, that’s another topic that irritates The Citizen and his old friend to no end. So join in the fun with one of The Citizen’s favorite Hebrews as they discuss why Ivanka’s orthodox Jewish husband could be a turncoat or “The Jew In The Coal Mine". Just remember after the show to put on your pants before sunset. Oy! “I Am Citizen Abels” (www.iamcitizenabels.com) is an internet radio show starring David Abels, and a copyrighted production of Four Strong Media LLC (www.fourstrongmedia.com). You can follow The Citizen on his social media sites and listen to him on iTunes, Stitcher, Last.fm, YouTube, Vimeo, and other iPhone, Android, and Windows phone, desktop, and tablet podcast and media player apps. Just search and subscribe to “I Am Citizen Abels.” You can follow Citizen Abels on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram or get in touch with him by email at iamcitizenabels@gmail.com. Call Citizen Abels toll-free on The Citizen Hotline at (844) 99-CITIZEN.

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison. Director: Walter Hill Writers: John Godey (novel), Ken Friedman (screenplay) Stars: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Lance Henriksen, Forest Whitaker

Ep. 102 - The Spotted Pig celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion we finally got owner Ken Friedman to come on the podcast to talk food and music! Before teaming up with Chef April Bloomfield to build a restaurant empire- which also includes John Dory Oyster Bar (NYC), The Breslin (NYC), and Tosca Cafe (SF)-  Ken started off his career in the music industry, booking shows in San Francisco before switching to the label side of things where he worked for Clive Davis and later Trent Reznor. It also explains why he has so many musicians as business partners and investors (like U2, Jay-Z, Fatboy Slim, and Michael Stipe.)  We talk about all that, plus Mario Batali ("[he'd] suck up to anybody famous, then and now", Rachel Ray ("she's barely in the food business... [but] she's not so bad"), and the only way to go to music festivals. 

Welcome to this week's GGtMC!!! We are sponsored this week by Vinegar Syndrome with one of the releases they so graciously sent us, Death by Invitation (1971) directed by Ken Friedman. A film Large William and Sammy had never heard of honestly, give us a listen and see what you think and head over to Vinegar Syndrome's website and do a little shopping!!! Emails to midnitecinema@gmail.com Voicemails to 206-666-5207 Adios!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ggtmc/message

In this week’s episode of In the Drink, special guest Carla Rzeszewski comes in to talk about her history within the food and wine industry. She has spent over a decade working her way through the roster of food service positions, zig-zagging from Hawaii to California to New York. She counts Paul Grieco and Peter Liem as defining cornerstones in her growth, and is grateful to every teacher she has encountered along the way, usually over a glass and well-loved food. She currently resides as April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman’s Wine Director for The Spotted Pig, The Breslin and The John Dory Oyster Bar. Tune in to learn more about Sherry wine, and become more educated in wine today! This program has been sponsored by Whole Foods Market. Break music provdided by takstar. “Get yourself out of the way and do something for somebody else.” —Carla Rzeszweski on In the Drink