The Culture Show Podcast

Mar 07 2025 330 ep. 50 mins
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A Boston-based podcast that thrives in how we live. What we like to see, watch, taste, hear, feel and talk about. It’s an expansive look at our society through art, culture and entertainment. It’s a conversation about the seminal moments and sizable shocks that are driving the daily discourse.  We’ll amplify local creatives and explore  the homegrown arts and culture landscape and tap into the big talent that tours Boston along the way. 

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March 7, 2025 - Week in Review: Hamilton at the Kennedy Center, Meghan Markle, and stolen piglets

Mar 07 2025 55 mins  
Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, James Bennett II and Culture Show contributor Joyce Kulhawik go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review. First up, Lin-Manuel Miranda cancels “Hamilton’s” upcoming run at the Kennedy Center amid leadership and ideological changes. From there it’s a look at a freedom of speech issue as the publisher of the romance

March 6, 2025 - Tiana Clark, PopUp Bagels, and Charles Atlas

Mar 06 2025 55 mins  
Award-winning poet Tiana Clark joins The Culture Show to talk about her latest collection of poems, “Scorched Earth.” Tiana Clark will be at a book event March 6th at 7:00 at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition. To learn more, go here. From there Brian Harrington joins The Culture Show. He’s the owner and operator of PopUp Bagels in the Seaport District, which will soon expa

March 5, 2025 - James Parker, Pixels + Petals at the New England Botanic Garden, and Paul Daigneault

Mar 05 2025 55 mins  
James Parker, a staff writer at “The Atlantic,” joins The Culture Show to talk about his latest piece “When Robert Frost was Bad.” James Parker runs the Black Seed Writers Group—a weekly writing workshop for homeless, transitional, and recently housed writers–and he edits “The Pilgrim,” a literary magazine from the homeless community of downtown Boston. His latest b

March 4, 2025 - Reginald Dwayne Betts, Margaret Cho, and the Vinfen Film Festival

Mar 04 2025 55 mins  
Reginald Dwayne Betts is an award-winning poet, a lawyer and founder of Freedom Reads, a first of its kind organization working to transform access to books in prisons. He joins The Culture Show to talk about his latest book “Doggerel: Poems.” From there comedian, actress and singer-songwriter Margaret Cho joins The Culture Show to talk about her new album “Lucky Gift,” a

March 3, 2025 - Oscars roundup with Joyce Kulhawik, James Stavridis, and Danyson Tavares

Mar 03 2025 55 mins  
Joyce Kulhawik joins The Culture Show for an Oscars recap with her take on the snoozers, snubs and surprises. Joyce Kulhawik is a Culture Show contributor, Emmy-award winning arts and entertainment reporter and president of the Boston Theatre Critics Association. You can find her reviews at Joyce’sChoices. From there, Admiral James Stavridis. He led NATO's global operations from

February 28, 2025 - Week in Review: Fyre Festival 2, Roberta Flack, and Amazon's James Bond

Feb 28 2025 55 mins  
Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and James Bennett II go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review. First up, the return of the Fyre Festival. Notorious for scamming people the first time around, it’s back selling tickets that range between $1,400 and $1.1 million. From there it’s the legacy of Soul and R&B icon Roberta Flack,refl

February 27, 2025 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Michael John Gorman, and Mary Grant

Feb 27 2025 55 mins  
Boston’s high-octane New Orleans-inspired brass band, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, is celebrating Mardi Gras with a show this Saturday at Scullers. Musician, composer and founder of Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Ken Field, and acclaimed trumpeter Jason Palmer join The Culture Show for a preview. From there the new director of the MIT Museum, Michael John Gorman, joins The Cultu

February 26, 2025 - Nebulae: The Universe Unveiled, Adrienne Campbell-Holt, and Pedro Alonzo

Feb 26 2025 55 mins  
Art and science converge in the exhibition “Nebulae: The Universe Unveiled,” on view at the New Bedford Art Museum through March 9th. Six NASA photographs from the Webb and Hubble telescopes are on display with works by artists who have either been directly inspired by the NASA photographs or inspired by the marvels of the night sky. Suzanne de Vegh, Executive Director of The N

February 25, 2025 - Luna Luna at The Shed, Jay Critchley, and Lisa Simmons

Feb 25 2025 55 mins  
Max Hodge’s, CEO of The Shed in New York City and Alex Poots, Artistic director at The Shed, join The Culture Show to talk about the innovative arts and culture venue and their current exhibition “Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy,” which is open through March 16, 2025. From there artist Jay Critchley joins The Culture Show to talk about his exhibition, Jay Critchley: Democracy o

February 24, 2025 - Megan Marshall, Maine's lighthouses, and the South Asian Showdown

Feb 24 2025 55 mins  
Megan Marshall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has long been revered for her storytelling skills and deep insights into historical figures, such as the poet Ellizabeth Bishop, and Margaret Fuller, the 19th century journalist and celebrated intellectual of her time. In her latest book,”After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart,” Megan Marshall t