The Roundtable

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold is a biographical documentary featuring the life of influential American writer, Joan Didion. Directed by Joan's nephew, Griffin Dunne, the film enlightens the viewer with an unprecedented, intimate perspective on Joan's life and career accomplishments. The film features interviews from Joan herself, as well as close family and friends, interwoven with contextual archival footage/stills to visualize Joan's astute writing. Joan, famous for bringing order to

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are: WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Communications Consultant Theresa Bourgeois, and Reporter and Community Engagement Editor for The Berkshire Eagle, Jenn Smith.

Chris Gibson is a decorated Army combat veteran and former US Congressman – a self-term-limiting one. He has now written a book to examine the troubled state of American politics and present a plan for what needs to be done to rediscover the principles needed to unite the country. Raised in a working-class family in upstate New York, the first in his family to go to college, paid for in part by his service in the National Guard, Chris Gibson rose from Private to Colonel in the Army, including

Zazu Galdos-Shapiro from The Bookloft in Great Barrington, MA, joins us with this week's Book Picks list. List: A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas The Fog by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Kenard Pak

The Barrington Stage Company is presenting Patrick Hamilton’s mystery thriller Gaslight on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage through October 22 nd . Gaslight , also called Angel Street and made into the popular 1944 film starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, is considered one of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time. It tells the story of Mr. Manningham, a suavely handsome man, who is slowly driving his gentle, devoted wife Bella to the brink of insanity with seemingly overwhelming

The 2017 Woodstock Film Festival begins tomorrow and will feature documentary and narrative films, panels, and parties in the Hudson Valley through the 15th. The new musical film, Stuck , directed by Michael Berry, will screen at the Woodstock Playhouse tomorrow at 7pm and at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on the 14th at 9:30pm. In Stuck , six strangers trapped together on a stalled New York City subway car confront their assumptions of one another under the scrutinizing eye of Lloyd, a mysterious

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are: WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Communications Consultant Theresa Bourgeois, Albany County District Attorney David Soares and Empire Report’s J.P. Miller.

William Wegman's whimsical photographs of his Weimaraner dogs have been celebrated in the art world and enjoyed by pet lovers for decades. In the book William Wegman: Being Human , renowned photography curator William A. Ewing presents more than 300 images from the artist's personal archive, unearthing previously unseen gems alongside the iconic images that have made Wegman - along with dressed-up dogs Man Ray, Fay Ray, and others - beloved worldwide. William Wegman joins us.

This Wednesday, October 11th , author/musician Wesley Stace , aka John Wesley Harding, will bring his Cabinet of Wonders revue to Club Helsinki Hudson in a program to benefit Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon . The show will feature musicians Tracy Bonham, Juliana Hatfield, Stephin Merritt and Suzzy Roche; novelist Charles Bock; author Daniel Mendelsohn ; and comedian Dave Hill. Wesley Stace joins us along with Executive Director of Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, Lacy Shutz .

The mass shooting in Las Vegas is difficult to comprehend. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Our Falling into Place series spotlights the important work of -and fosters collaboration between- not-for-profit organizations in our communities; allowing us all to fall into place. Falling Into Place is supported by The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation , Providing a helping hand to turn inspiration into accomplishment. See more possibilities … see more promise… see more progress. President and CEO of the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society , Todd Cramer, joins us now to tell us about the organization

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are: WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Political Consultant Libby Post, Times-Union Associate Editor Mike Spain and Dan Irizarry - Chairman of the Capital District Latinos.

T he Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother. Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case. The victim is a young woman, the roommate of the daughter of Medical Examiner Beverly Hillstrom. A recent transplant from Albany, New York, Sammie must find out what put a hit man on the trail of this seemingly

In this week’s Classical Music According to Yehuda , Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani continue their series of conversations about quoting, sampling, borrowing in music.

If you look for it - you can find a lot of pretty swell life advice in musicals. For instance: you gotta get a gimmick, don’t throw away your shot, and whenever you feel afraid - hold your head erect and whistle a happy tune. Tim Federle’s new book, available this week from Running Press, shares advice he’s learned not from the lyrics in shows - but from performing in musicals on Broadway, around the U.S. and abroad. Life is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like A Star features