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Cultural Commentary From Shawn Stone For 8/18/16

  Shawn Stone joins us to talk about what he's seen lately and what cultural events are coming up this week in our region.

Seen: Suicide Squad, Anthropoid
 
Upcoming:

• The Hudson: River at Risk, plus Q&A w/director Jon Bowermaster - Madison Theater, Albany, 8/18 Thursday, 7 PM

• The Big Takeover - Helsinki Hudson, Hudson, 8/19 Friday

• Pretty Much the Best Comedy Show: Nore Davis - Underground at Proctors, 8/20 Saturday

• Dawes, Basia Bulat - The Egg, Albany, 8/20 Saturday

• Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. (and cartoons, including Felix the Cat) with live music by the BQE Project - MASS MoCA, 8/20, Saturday, 8 PM

• Borromeo String Quartet (Haydn, Beethoven & Russell Platt’s Mountain Interval, a world premiere)

• Maverick Concerts, Woodstock, 8/21 Sunday, 4 PM

• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the Spa Little Theater, Saratoga Springs

    “Classical Legacy,” Mozart, Schumann & Mendelssohn, 8/21 Sunday, 3 PM

    “Russian Fireworks,” Gliere, Moszkowski, Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky, 8/23 Tuesday 8 PM

• Goo Goo Dolls, Collective Soul, Tribe Society - SPAC, Saratoga Springs. 8/21 Sunday

• Celtic Thunder - Palace Theatre, Albany, 8/23 Tuesday

 
New Movies: Ben Hur, Hell or High WaterKubo and the Two StringsOur Little Sister

 

In a radio career that has spanned nearly 35 years, Ray Graf has done it all. At one time or another he worked as an overnight board operator, a commercial copywriter, a reporter and a voiceover announcer. For several years - a lifetime ago - he was a morning drive disc jockey. Graf has been a member of the WAMC News team for 16 years. These days, he finds himself as The Roundtable's news anchor, panelist- and occasional guest host for Joe Donahue. "Radio news is not always easy," said Graf of his most recent radio vocation, "but it's not nearly as difficult as spinning a Michael Bolton record at 5:45 in the morning and pretending you're happy about it."