Episodes

Ted Minos is an actor, director, producer, and writer who has made his home in upper Manhattan for over two decades. He's appeared on stages across the country, but locals are most likely to recognize him from the Inwood Shakespeare Festival, where he's appeared as Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, or others. Ted is the founder and the producing artistic director of the Moose Hall Theater Company, which developed and presented the Inwood Shakespeare Festival. In 2010 he received the Uptown Arts Stroll A...

Ted Minos is an actor, director, producer, and writer who has made his home in upper Manhattan for over two decades. He's appeared on stages across the country, but locals are most likely to recognize him from the Inwood Shakespeare Festival, where he's appeared as Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, or others. Ted is the founder and the producing artistic director of the Moose Hall Theater Company, which developed and presented the Inwood Shakespeare Festival. In 2010 he received the Uptown Arts Stroll A...

Ted Minos is an actor, director, producer, and writer who has made his home in upper Manhattan for over two decades. He's appeared on stages across the country, but locals are most likely to recognize him from the Inwood Shakespeare Festival, where he's appeared as Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, or others. Ted is the founder and the producing artistic director of the Moose Hall Theater Company, which developed and presented the Inwood Shakespeare Festival. In 2010 he received the Uptown Arts Stroll A...

Miguel Andrés Tejada began his musical life as a classical pianist, studying under the famed Cuban teacher Hilda Melis Gras, in his hometown of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, but while still in his youth (and already an accomplished pianist) Miguel’s attention turned to jazz. In 2007 he was awarded a full scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz composition and arrangement with Joanne Brackeen. Since then Miguel has played with a who's who of jazz musicians, a...

Miguel Andrés Tejada began his musical life as a classical pianist, studying under the famed Cuban teacher Hilda Melis Gras, in his hometown of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, but while still in his youth (and already an accomplished pianist) Miguel’s attention turned to jazz. In 2007 he was awarded a full scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz composition and arrangement with Joanne Brackeen. Since then Miguel has played with a who's who of jazz musicians, a...

Miguel Andrés Tejada began his musical life as a classical pianist, studying under the famed Cuban teacher Hilda Melis Gras, in his hometown of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, but while still in his youth (and already an accomplished pianist) Miguel’s attention turned to jazz. In 2007 he was awarded a full scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz composition and arrangement with Joanne Brackeen. Since then Miguel has played with a who's who of jazz musicians, a...

Improvisational sketch artist and teacher Kevin Scott has founded three improv ensembles, including his current company, Centralia Improv, named for the blighted Pennsylvania town beneath which a coal fire is destined to burn for centuries. Kevin has taught and directed improv and sketch comedy at The Second City Training Center and the People’s Improv Theatre (aka the PIT); you’ve seen his students on Saturday Night Live, The Office, Bridesmaids, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night w...

Improvisational sketch artist and teacher Kevin Scott has founded three improv ensembles, including his current company, Centralia Improv, named for the blighted Pennsylvania town beneath which a coal fire is destined to burn for centuries. Kevin has taught and directed improv and sketch comedy at The Second City Training Center and the People’s Improv Theatre (aka the PIT); you’ve seen his students on Saturday Night Live, The Office, Bridesmaids, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night w...

Improvisational sketch artist and teacher Kevin Scott has founded three improv ensembles, including his current company, Centralia Improv, named for the blighted Pennsylvania town beneath which a coal fire is destined to burn for centuries. Kevin has taught and directed improv and sketch comedy at The Second City Training Center and the People’s Improv Theatre (aka the PIT); you’ve seen his students on Saturday Night Live, The Office, Bridesmaids, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night w...

Hot Glue & The Gun is Carrie Klein and Joel McGlynn, two upper Manhattan musicians and theater artists who are dedicated to the idea that art is not a spectator sport. Hot Glue & The Gun's live shows meld comedy, drama, music, love, and a sensitivity to the state of the world into an experience that (as one critic put it) will "tease your senses, prod your brain, and force you to dance." Their weekly live virtual variety show, the Gluey Zoomy Show, defies description, with guests ranging from cl...

Hot Glue & The Gun is Carrie Klein and Joel McGlynn, two upper Manhattan musicians and theater artists who are dedicated to the idea that art is not a spectator sport. Hot Glue & The Gun's live shows meld comedy, drama, music, love, and a sensitivity to the state of the world into an experience that (as one critic put it) will "tease your senses, prod your brain, and force you to dance." Their weekly live virtual variety show, the Gluey Zoomy Show, defies description, with guests ranging from cl...

Hot Glue & The Gun is Carrie Klein and Joel McGlynn, two upper Manhattan musicians and theater artists who are dedicated to the idea that art is not a spectator sport. Hot Glue & The Gun's live shows meld comedy, drama, music, love, and a sensitivity to the state of the world into an experience that (as one critic put it) will "tease your senses, prod your brain, and force you to dance." Their weekly live virtual variety show, the Gluey Zoomy Show, defies description, with guests ranging from cl...

Listeners may know producer, promoter, and comedian Eric Vetter from No Name… & a Bag of Chips, the weekly comedy/variety show Eric co-founded and hosts at locations around NYC, including Word Up Community Bookshop in the Heights. Now in its twenty-sixth year, No Name has entertained countless audiences and given a stage to thousands of comics, storytellers, musicians, and performers as they strive to hone their craft, including Ophira Eisenberg, Tom Shillue, Baratunde Thurston, Joanna Parson, D...

Listeners may know producer, promoter, and comedian Eric Vetter from No Name… & a Bag of Chips, the weekly comedy/variety show Eric co-founded and hosts at locations around NYC, including Word Up Community Bookshop in the Heights. Now in its twenty-sixth year, No Name has entertained countless audiences and given a stage to thousands of comics, storytellers, musicians, and performers as they strive to hone their craft, including Ophira Eisenberg, Tom Shillue, Baratunde Thurston, Joanna Parson, D...

Listeners may know producer, promoter, and comedian Eric Vetter from No Name… & a Bag of Chips, the weekly comedy/variety show Eric co-founded and hosts at locations around NYC, including Word Up Community Bookshop in the Heights. Now in its twenty-sixth year, No Name has entertained countless audiences and given a stage to thousands of comics, storytellers, musicians, and performers as they strive to hone their craft, including Ophira Eisenberg, Tom Shillue, Baratunde Thurston, Joanna Parson, D...

Dister Rondon has danced in movies, on VH1, and in national ads for Apple, Verizon, and the Gap, and you’ve seen his art all over upper Manhattan—inside George Washington High School, for example, or at 172nd and Amsterdam, where you'll find his mural thanking essential workers. In 2004 Dister created the I Love My Hood project to promote and preserve the Washington Heights he grew up in. I Love My Hood is now a worldwide collective of artists, educators and activists dedicated to serving the gr...

Dister Rondon has danced in movies, on VH1, and in national ads for Apple, Verizon, and the Gap, and you’ve seen his art all over upper Manhattan—inside George Washington High School, for example, or at 172nd and Amsterdam, where you'll find his mural thanking essential workers. In 2004 Dister created the I Love My Hood project to promote and preserve the Washington Heights he grew up in. I Love My Hood is now a worldwide collective of artists, educators and activists dedicated to serving the gr...

Dister Rondon has danced in movies, on VH1, and in national ads for Apple, Verizon, and the Gap, and you’ve seen his art all over upper Manhattan—inside George Washington High School, for example, or at 172nd and Amsterdam, where you'll find his mural thanking essential workers. In 2004 Dister created the I Love My Hood project to promote and preserve the Washington Heights he grew up in. I Love My Hood is now a worldwide collective of artists, educators and activists dedicated to serving the gr...

Todays guests are pianist Candace Chien and violinist Nicholas Pappone, the Alighieri Duo. Nicholas was inspired to take up the violin when, as a child actor, he portrayed a musical prodigy. He’s now a sought-after soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher who has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Piano Trio, and the Zukerman Chamber Players. Candace is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Jonat...

Todays guests are pianist Candace Chien and violinist Nicholas Pappone, the Alighieri Duo. Nicholas was inspired to take up the violin when, as a child actor, he portrayed a musical prodigy. He’s now a sought-after soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher who has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Piano Trio, and the Zukerman Chamber Players. Candace is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Jonat...

Todays guests are pianist Candace Chien and violinist Nicholas Pappone, the Alighieri Duo. Nicholas was inspired to take up the violin when, as a child actor, he portrayed a musical prodigy. He’s now a sought-after soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher who has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Piano Trio, and the Zukerman Chamber Players. Candace is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Jonat...

Lisa D'Apolito's celebrated documentary Love, Gilda revealed the inner life of comic and Saturday Night Live founding cast member Gilda Radner. Lately she's been working on separate projects about the lives of two very different artists: maverick independent filmmaker Albert Pyun, and ventriloquist, comedian, and children's television icon Shari Lewis. Aaron talks to Lisa about her projects, about making movies during COVID, and about her long history of work with Gilda's Club, which offers free...

Lisa D'Apolito's celebrated documentary Love, Gilda revealed the inner life of comic and Saturday Night Live founding cast member Gilda Radner. Lately she's been working on separate projects about the lives of two very different artists: maverick independent filmmaker Albert Pyun, and ventriloquist, comedian, and children's television icon Shari Lewis. Aaron talks to Lisa about her projects, about making movies during COVID, and about her long history of work with Gilda's Club, which offers free...

Lisa D'Apolito's celebrated documentary Love, Gilda revealed the inner life of comic and Saturday Night Live founding cast member Gilda Radner. Lately she's been working on separate projects about the lives of two very different artists: maverick independent filmmaker Albert Pyun, and ventriloquist, comedian, and children's television icon Shari Lewis. Aaron talks to Lisa about her projects, about making movies during COVID, and about her long history of work with Gilda's Club, which offers free...