December 12 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed provides cultural suggestions for the holidays. Tune in for an on-air review of museum exhibitions in the Ann Arbor-Detroit-Toledo region. All would be great venues for visiting family, friends, and young people.
December 5 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed welcomes acclaimed actor Sean Blake, who is starring in Performance Network Theatre’s current production, Why Not Me? A Sammy Davis Jr. Story. Mr. Blake’s one-man play, written by Tim Rhoze, spotlight’s this unique entertainer’s public and private life, his triumphs and his inner turmoil. Why Not Me? plays at PNT through December 19.
More at: facebook.com/pntheatre
December 5 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Join me as I describe my Thanksgiving trip to Ithaca, New York. Highlighted will be my visit
to the Kroch Library of Cornell University, where I examined a fabulous copy of
Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein, along with a letter by Shelley to American
Revolutionary icon, the Marquis de Lafayette. I also attended the exhibition, Gods and
Scholars: Studying Religion at a Secular University.
more at: cornell.edu/exhibitions
November 28 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My family and I will be in Ithaca, New York for the holiday. I hope you will enjoy an encore broadcast of my interview with Dr. Jeanine Basinger, the founder of the Wesleyan University Cinema Archive, which aired initially August 22. As you know, Jeanine is a great friend of the show, appearing nearly every year to highlight a facet of Hollywood history. Today’s topic: the utopian/fantasy films of the 1930s such as Ronald Colman’s Lost Horizon.
Also, we’ll be celebrating the centenary of the birth of Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), whose private papers reside at the Archive.
November 21 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed is delighted to welcome back University Musical Society President, Kenneth C. Fischer. Ken will regale us with performance details about UMS’ superb new season, as well as stories ‘from the Hill.’ Of special note is President Obama’s awarding of The National Medal of Arts to UMS, which Ken received personally from the President during a recent ceremony at The White House..
More at: ums.org
November 21 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed picks up the thread of Detroit Institute of Arts Director Salvador Salort-Pons last week in highlighting various works and exhibitions at the Museum.
more at: dia.org
November 14 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed is delighted to welcome back Dr. Salvador Salort-Pons, now Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, who will showcase the European Romantic movement by describing renowned examples of art from the DIA’s permanent collection.
More at: dia.org
November 14 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Dr, Catherine Williamson of Bonhams auction house will highlight an outstanding auction, TCM Presents…Treasures from the Dream Factory, taking place November 23, in New York. Dr. Williamson will discuss the importance of the collections being sold and describe iconic pieces, such as a complete Dorothy costume from The Wizard of Oz; a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return; and a Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane.
more at: bonhams.com
November 7 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed will welcome noted Ann Arbor Huron High School English teacher and author, Robert Fox. Mr. Fox will describe his new book, Love & Vodka : My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine. Traveling to Ukraine in pursuit of his future wife, what he really gets is a whole lot of culture!
More at: fowbooks.com
November 7 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
More at: vetsatthehill.org
October 31 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Tune in as Ed regales us with ‘all things Halloween” in art, from European and American paintings, books, films and fables (particularly of the Gothic variety) to African sculpture.
October 17 • 3:00 – 3:45 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed welcomes back noted screenwriter and TV producer, John McNamara, whose much-anticipated motion picture, “Trumbo,” tells the story of famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and of his struggles with being blacklisted by The House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Trumbo’s vindication will come in 1960, when Kirk Douglas publicly acknowledges his authorship of the script for “Sparticus.” Hear John McNamara’s description of Trumbo’s eventual victory over institutional injustice.More at: IMDB
October 17 • 3:45-4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed will describe several current art exhibitions as well as his experience interviewing acclaimed actress, Tippi Hedren, during her visit to Detroit’s historic Redford Theatre, October 16-18.
More at: Redford Theatre
October 10 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Our guest will be acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, who will describe his latest book, The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, published by W.W. Norton. Mr. Toll’s second installment to his Pacific Theater trilogy, it asserts the crucial importance of the Marianas campaign to the U.S. Navy in its strategy to choke Japan’s war economy.More at: wwnorton.com
October 10 • 3:30-4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Performance Network Theatre presents Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Join Ed as he welcomes director Suzi Regan and award-winning actress, PNT Associate Artist, and Eastern Michigan University professor, Terry Heck.
More at: pntheatre.org
October 3 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Join Ed as he concludes the 2015 Summer Cultural Destination Series. Our guest is Ms. Stephanie Gress, Director of Curatorial Affairs with the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, in Centerport, Long Island. Stephanie returns to highlight the fine art, antiques, and natural history collections formed by William K. Vanderbilt II. A renowned yachtsman, explorer, and pioneering auto racer, “Willie K” truly secured his legacy with Eagle’s Nest, the Gold Coast Spanish Revival mansion designed to showcase his spectacular collection of Oceanic art and sea life specimens.