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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, we take a look back at concerts presented by the New York Folklore Society highlighting traditional musicians from our community.

Elena Ailes, an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, explains the road to unionization.

(Airs 09/22/22 @ 3 p.m. & 09/24/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

(Airs 09/25/22 @ 6 p.m. & 09/26/22 @ 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Barbara Ian, and JP talk about whether the amount of Trump coverage is appropriate, reporting on immigration and climate change, and much more.

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 celebrate the Capital District jazz scene with the Wayne Hawkins Quartet, the Peg Delany Trio ft. Colleen Pratt, and Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble. We also look back at a show played by Lee Shaw, who passed away in 2015.

This graphic designer is admired for his decades as an art director at the Times, for his teaching, and for his books, including his most recent, "Growing Up Underground," a memoir of his youth in the East Village of the sixties, which he compares to Haight Ashbury: “It was a lot more disgusting, but it was disgusting in a good way.” Produced with the Type Directors Club.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, October 15th, 2022

Two of the five brightest stars, Canopus and Vega, are antipodal to each other on the celestial sphere. So when Vega becomes the north star 12,000 years from now, Canopus will then be the south star. And what a spectacular situation – having a dazzling, zero magnitude luminary marking each of our poles.

The greatest sky experiences are often accompanied by excitement and shouts. But a lunar eclipse rarely creates such a reaction. So a realistic expectation of the eclipse next Monday night, November 7, might be “fascinating” rather than “mind-blowing.” Still, it’s very cool to see the Moon enter our planet's normally-invisible shadow. The shadow’s round shape proves we really live on a ball. And during totality almost everyone marvels at the Moon’s strange reddish color.

New York City’s health commissioner notes that the best medical outcome is that the patient doesn’t get sick in the first place, and yet, “We spend four trillion dollars on health care, and we spend about three cents of every dollar on prevention and public health. Something has to give.” Ah, but what? Produced with Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.