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For restauranteur Danny Meyer — Union Square Café, Shake Shack — hospitality is as important as food. “Hospitality exists when you feel like someone did something for you, not something to you.“ He’s not just talking about restaurants. Food as metaphor, food as food. Produced with the Municipal Art Society.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, April 2nd, 2022

(Airs 04/01/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the Governor and state leaders give up on meeting the state’s April 1st budget deadline, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on a judge has ordering New York’s Democratic-controlled Legislature to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative districts after finding them unconstitutional, and Senator Gillibrand renews efforts to bring banking to the post office.

Everyone knows that Quantum mechanics can be non-logical. Yet it works when it comes to describing the behavior of atoms and all the other small stuff that makes up our universe. It has also been used to create new technologies such as the transistor. But to believe it means believing things about reality that very few of us would find acceptable. Even Albert Einstein, who helped establish quantum theory more than a century ago, came to question its principles for most of his life. This week we'll explore two basic principles of common sense that quantum theory throws away.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, March 26th, 2022

Dr. Dave A. Chokshi is the former Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He led the City’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its historic campaign to vaccinate over 6 million New Yorkers. “We have gotten vaccinated not just to protect ourselves but to protect our communities,” says Chokshi, who sees something admirable in our pandemic response.

(Airs 03/31/22 @ 3 p.m. & 04/02/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Yancey Roy, Albany Bureau Chief for Newsday.

Stewart O’Nan’s latest novel “Ocean State” is a crushing, beautifully written, and compelling story about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. The story is one of the build-up to and fall-out from a murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart.

(Airs 04/03/22 @ 6 p.m. & 04/04/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Judy Patrick, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, Rosemary Armao, and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Judy, Rosemary and Barbara talk about coverage of President Biden’s “gaffe,” Hunter Biden’s laptop and whether journalists missed the story, Mick Mulvaney being hired by CBS, and more.

Naturalist and writer Drew Laham is wary of “bad people having their names attached to perfectly good birds.” Audubon’s Warbler invokes not just an ornithologist but a slave-owner. “We should remove all human names from birds and let the birds tell us who they are—by their physical appearance, their behavior, their song.” Bluebirds! Whippoorwills! Elegant! Produced with Orion magazine.