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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, it’s the sound of distant past from 1960s Vegas to Celtic/ Scottish folk. Travel back in time with Jerry Gretzinger, The Waterboys, and Jimmy Webb.

Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including “The Da Vinci Code” which has become one of the best-selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. “The Da Vinci Code” is one of five novels featuring his symbology professor protagonist, Robert Langdon.

(Airs 09/08/22 @ 3 p.m. & 09/10/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Democratic New York state Senator James Skoufis.

This coming Wednesday and Thursday nights, Saturn is the very nearest star to the Moon. And since Saturn reached its annual near point to Earth just three weeks ago, it happens to be as big as possible. We’d usually also say it’s as bright as it gets too, but that’s now changing because its rings are slowly getting oriented more and more sideways.

(Airs 09/09/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette:State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa visits the Schenectady City School District, our political Observer Alan Chartock on his conversation with Democratic state Senator James Skoufis, and the state Farm Laborers Wage Board recommends lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers.

(Airs 09/11/22 @ 6 p.m. & 09/12/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Adjunct Professor at RPI and Investigative Journalist, Rosemary Armao, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Barbara and Ira talk about threats to journalists, slap suits against the media, whether CNN is turning to the right, and much more.

(Airs 09/01/22 @ 3 p.m. & 09/03/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Will Barclay, Republican Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly.

(Airs 09/02/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: As the school year begins, the state’s largest teachers’ unions and other education experts call for a better response to threats of violence, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on his conversation with Republican Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, and we’ll join the Republican candidate for Governor at a campaign rally in Colonie.

(Airs 09/04/22 @ 6 p.m. & 09/05/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Times Union Editor and current Substack columnist Rex Smith, Adjunct Professor at RPI and Investigative Journalist, Rosemary Armao and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary and Ira talk about a major case of defamation against Fox news, why using polls are a bad way to practice journalism, sexism in the Canadian broadcast media, and much more.

On this week’s 51%, we recognize Women’s Equality Day and speak with Noreen Farrell, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, about just where gender equality in the U.S. stands after the fall of Roe v. Wade.