The Roundtable

Dead At 74, Doors Founder Ray Manzarek Celebrated Dionysian Legacy

Ian Pickus — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:50:00 +0000

Organist Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, died yesterday after a battle with cancer.

If Jim Morrison got the life-after-death rock sainthood that attaches itself to the genre’s fallen frontmen, Ray Manzarek became the torchbearer for the sometimes loved, sometimes despised, always compelling group that was both a pop success and a beguiling circus.

Tune for Today

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:26:00 +0000

"Will You Be Sleeping?" - David Wax Museum, playing Mountain Jam on 6/7.

"Wool" by Hugh Howey

Joe Donahue — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:12:00 +0000

Wool is by Hugh Howey. In the summer of 2011, Wool was released as a standalone story with little thought that it would ever become so popular. It soon took on a life of its own, and reviewers clamored for more. The next four books were released to satisfy this demand, each one growing in size. Wool 5 is 250 pages long in print. All five books have now been collected in an Omnibus edition, but they were always meant to be read individually.

Sing, Fly, Meet, and Die - "Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise" by David Rothenberg

Joe Donahue — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:00 +0000

In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle—the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experience this great sonic invasion compare their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending rhythmic cycle is just one unique example of how the pulse and noise of insects has taught humans the meaning of rhythm, from the whirr of a cricket’s wings to this unfathomable and exact seventeen-year beat.

Book Picks - The Golden Notebook

Sarah LaDuke — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Jacqueline Kellachan from The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, NY joins us with this week's Book Picks.

List after the break.

5/21/13 - Panel

Joe Donahue — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Dr. Jennifer Michaels of The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and University at Albany Journalism Professor and Investigative Reporter, Rosemary Armao.

Topics include:
Mental Illness in the Family
Generation Rx
Marijuana: Panacea, Pleasure or Plague

Listener Essay - Embarrassed

Sarah LaDuke — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:35:00 +0000

Julie Evans lives in Woodstock where she spends most of her time trying to figure things out. She is a writer, personal mentor, host of the television program Just Say So and an adjunct instructor for Empire State College. She has just completed her memoir entitled Joy Road.

"Bad Boy" by Eric Fischl

Joe Donahue — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:35:00 +0000

In his new memoir, Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl explores his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s.

History and Family at The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

David Guistina — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:00 +0000

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York is in the midst of their countdown to the public opening of the Roosevelt Library's new permanent museum exhibits on June 30th.

5/20/13 - Panel

David Guistina — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Times Union Associate Editor, Mike Spain, and University at Albany Journalism Professor and Investigative Reporter, Rosemary Armao.

Topics include:
Obama Poll
Student Debt
Yahoo buys Tumblr
IG report: Work of rogue tax squad sloppy at best
Sampson earmark missing