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WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Ed Cox, the newly elected and returning chairman of the state Republican committee.

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 strip it down to just guitars and vocals with Joshua Black Wilkins, Dom Flemons and Syd Straw.

Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award winner, Julianna Margulies has achieved success in television, theater, and film and starred in two classic series: “ER” and “The Good Wife.” As a bubbly child, Julianna was bestowed with the family nickname “Sunshine Girl,” also the title of her new memoir.

(Airs 05/20/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: A mass shooting in Buffalo kills 10 people, injures 3 and prompts Governor Hochul to announce several steps to curb the growing number racially motivated violence, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the politics of the latest mass shooting, and Northern New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik finds herself in the national spotlight since the mass shooting.

(Airs 05/22/22 @ 6 p.m. & 05/23/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, , former 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 and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary, and Ira talk about media coverage of the mass shooting in Buffalo, Rosemary answers a letter from a personal critic, and much more.

Antimatter has the same appearance and behavior as ordinary matter. An antimatter star would look just like a normal one. But let an antimatter object touch anything made of conventional matter, and both vanish in a violent flash. Every version of the Big Bang theory says that equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created. Yet somehow we live in a matter-dominated universe. What happened to all the potential anti-planets and anti-stars?

On this week’s 51%, we continue our series highlighting women in business. Holly Seidewand of First Fill Spirits in Saratoga Springs, New York teaches us the ins and outs of the whiskey industry, and shares her own journey of opening a small business.

(Airs 05/29/22 @ 6 p.m. & 05/30/22 @ 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 former, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, Rosemary Armao, and Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary, and Judy talk about coverage of the mass shooting in Texas, how we should cover children, why more students are covering state legislatures, and much more.

(Airs 05/27/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul signs the Adult Survivors Act into law, our political observer Alan Chartock on his conversation with Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani, and another Starbucks in New York, the first in the Capital Region, elects to unionize.

Jeff Griggs helps explain some important concepts that underpin improv comedy, as well as how different teachers might offer unique approaches to the craft.