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Having won the Pulitzer Prize for his play A Strange Loop, what will he do next? One possibility, move to Wyoming. “I’d get my house somewhere, get my shotgun, if I needed it, and sit on my porch in my rocking chair.” An eastern sophisticate contemplates the West, Tori Amos, and soap opera. Presented with Federal Hall and the New York Harbor Conservancy.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, July 16th, 2022

This climate economist is surprisingly optimistic about onrushing environmental catastrophe. “Things are dire, yes, but things are moving much much faster in the positive direction than anyone would have imagined five, ten years ago.” A ray of hope! “Now, is it fast enough? No.” Or not. Produced with the New-York Historical Society’s Climate Café. Music was performed live by Mamie Minch.

Joe Pinion is the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate challenging Democrat Chuck Schumer.

In our hyperbole-minded culture, it's easy to exaggerate. But one planet never disappoints. Through any telescope with more than 30x, Saturn elicits gasps. Oddly enough, photos of the ringed world do not pack the same visceral punch. You have to see it for yourself.

On this week’s 51%, we’re highlighting women in the arts. We tune into a webinar discussing the importance of protecting the spaces where women create, and we also sit down with children’s book writer and illustrator Jan Brett.

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 are featuring artists who made their Linda debut earlier this year.

Backyard astronomers are really getting into two-eye observing. Sales of binoviewers and matching eyepieces have exploded in the past five years. This week we’ll examine this 3-D realm in all its dimensionality.

(Airs 07/24/22 @ 6 p.m. & 07/25/22 @ 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 Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Judy, Barbara and Rex, talk about Alan’s new nickname, the grim news cycle, why Gannett has stopped writing editorials, and more.

(Airs 07/22/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: New York Governor Hochul says the state is preparing for a possible new surge of COVID-19 this fall, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on attempted knife attack on the GOP candidate for Governor Lee Zeldin, and we’ll have a conversation with the new President of SUNY New Paltz.