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Playlist as aired on Saturday, March 19th, 2022.

If you’re hearing this Sunday, well, at 11:33 this morning Eastern Daylight Time, it’s the vernal equinox, when we read that "Day and night are equal." But some people must surely glance at their local sunrise and sunset listings and see that day is longer than night at the equinox. Real equality happened several days ago. The culprit is our atmosphere, which bends the sun’s image upward. But, hey, it’s close enough. Like the date itself. If "March 21" pops to mind, you're probably over 50. The final March 21 equinox happened 32 years ago.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, February 12th, 2022:

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week we showcase The Linda’s many “shades of blue,” with blues artists James Armstrong, Shawn Holt, and Chris Thomas King. We also check in with John McEuen, who will be taking the Linda stage on February 27th.

What makes you happy? It’s a question that has an unlimited number of answers. But the real question should probably be what makes you happier? That’s the one that Randye Kaye asks in her new book called “Happier Made Simple - Choose Your Words, Change Your Life." In the book she asks questions and offers some guidance not to find total happiness…but to find ways to find a bit of happier.

Pianist Lara Downes is the creator and curator of Rising Sun Music, a recording series that sheds light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past 200 years. She also is the host of NPR’s Amplify With Lara Downes featuring future-forward performances and conversations on the cusp of a new inclusion and diversity in classical music. This week we break format to discuss three overlooked black composers.

(Airs 03/25/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: tensions flare between the Governor and Legislature over a proposal to change the state’s bail reform laws, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on differences between Democrats on criminal justice reform, and we’ll have a conversation with state department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos.

(Airs 03/24/22 @ 3 p.m. & 03/26/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Gerard Kassar, Chairman of the Conservative Party in New York state.

(Airs 03/27/22 @ 6 p.m. & 03/28/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University, and WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Ira, Rosemary and Ian talk about how the media is covering the war in Ukraine and the Supreme Court hearings, and whether profanity has become more acceptable in the media.

New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals in her new collection, “On Animals.” Orlean has been hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Library Book.”