The latest WNHH radio broadcasts explore movies past and present, language and food, recent arrests captured on video, and what New Haveners can do to help those going through reentry.
Friday Pundits Babz Rawls-Ivy, Markeshia Ricks, and Joe Ugly revisit some recent controversial arrests captured on video, a prison pass given to a cop who stole drugs, and those soon-to-appear “contra flow” bike lanes.
Babz Rawls-Ivy welcomes Jeffrey Earls, director of development at Family ReEntry, on her episode of “LoveBabz Lovetalk.” The two discuss the issues facing those reentering society after getting out of prison, and get into what the effects of state budget cuts are going to be. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “Elm City Lowdown” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
On “Dateline New Haven,” Robert Aiudi — aka “The Language chef” — explains how to pronounce “arugula” and “strichetti” … and why it matters. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to “Dateline New Haven” on Soundcloud or iTunes.
“Deep Focus” host Tom Breen talks with New Havener Bruce Ditman about two films from the early 1980s that have had a profound influence on the way he watches, makes, and enjoys movies today, Michael Mann’s Thief and Martin Brest’s Beverly Hill’s Cop. For the second segment of the show, Breen talks with Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman FRANCOFONIA, a new meditative documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov about the timelessness of art and the history of the Louvre under Nazi occupation. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
This Day in New Haven Immigrant History: hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle profile a tailor back in 1875 who stole a suit and a German immigrant who was alarmed when a police officer wanted to interview him at home late at night. How police treat you contributes to your own mental health, and the city’s. Then and now. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
Imagine that a street or neighborhood has to petition the city to get new-fangled gas street lamps. That’s the journey time-traveling hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle embark on this particularly illuminating episode. To listen, click on or download the audio above.=
