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The Midtown Lounge: 4/25/24 set list

This week on The Midtown Lounge experience, we featured these blues, rock, soul, R&B, funk and jazz artists: Otis Redding The Black Crowes Johnny Winter Altered Five Blues Band Garnetta Cromwell Tab Benoit Joanne Shaw Taylor Dave Keller Etta James Eric Sardinas Matt Andersen The Allman Brothers Band Nat King Cole Buddy Rich Tower Of Power The Chefs David Holmes Widespread Panic 311 The Police The Vaughan Brothers Chris Duarte D.K. Harrell Ray Charles Tide Billy...

04/25/2024

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Ep 7: Student Debt, Safe Staffing for Nurses, Elite Panic over Shoplifting

Is student debt a mechanism to discipline workers? In our Special Feature with Jason Wozniak, we discuss the interplay between student debt and control of students and workers. In our D&S Debrief, Chris Sturr interviews Michelle Gonzalez and Nick French about how New York State Nurses Association won safe staffing...

04/25/2024

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Freeze Frame: “Challengers” (R), “Boy Kills World” (R), “We Grown Now” (PG)

The tennis movie "Challengers" takes the term 'love' in a kinky direction. Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist star in a raunchy comic drama about a ménage à troi involving championship level competitors. The actors are fine and look convincing on the court. The timeline of director Luca Guadagnino's story...

04/25/2024

By Russ SimmonsBill Skarsgård, Boy Kills World, Challengers, entertainment, Josh O'Connor, Jurnee Smollett., Mike Faist, movie reviews, movies, We Grown Now, ZendayaComments Off

Take Two: “Origin” (PG-13)

Director Ava DuVernay's drama "Origin" is a drama about the personal challenges that journalist Isabel Wilkerson endured as she researched her non-fiction book "Caste: The Origins of our Discontents." Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ("King Richard") portrays the author.

04/25/2024

By Russ SimmonsAunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ava Duvernay, Caste, entertainment, Isabel Wilkerson, movie reviews, movies, OriginComments Off

American Routes – New Orleans Tunes and Talk with Wendell Brunious & Comedy and Critique from Susan Werner

We go where the music leads us, first live at home with trumpeter Wendell Brunious and his New Orleans All Stars. Wendell is from a famed New Orleans Creole jazz family and is now the music director of Preservation Hall. Then we visit with the eccentric and witty songmaker and...

04/24/2024

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Making Contact: You Can Still Have An Abortion

How does anyone make sense of abortion access these days? We sat down with All Options Pregnancy Resource Center in Bloomington, Indiana to talk about whats changed since Indianas full abortion ban went into effect last August. Local abortion funds like All Options do a lot, but they can't talk...

04/24/2024

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Sprouts: An Economy of Our Own

Women tell a new story about money. The women of An Economy of Our Own ask a simple question: What would happen if the free and low-paid labor provided by women were actually measured in our economy?

04/24/2024

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UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage

We'll celebrate those born in Taurus with Cannonball Adderley, spin a set of Afrobeat from Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, The Lijadu Sisters, and Ebo Taylor, Jr., and head to Soulville with Aretha Franklin and Woodstock with Sly & the Family Stone.

04/24/2024

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