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On this week's program: Andrew Farnsworth is a senior research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and has led a career that’s focused on migration and how birds are being affected by climate change and light pollution. But dramatic improvements in technology during the past few decades have provided him with new data that’s making the scale and scope of his work radically different.

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 have ensembles comprised of musicians who come together to make music.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, September 24th, 2022:

On this week’s 51%, we speak with cartoonist Kate Beaton about her new graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, chronicling her years working in the oil sands of Northern Alberta.

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.