The Roundtable

The 29th annual Music Haven Concert Series will journey nearly 36,000 miles, from North Africa to South America, and cross from the North Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, in search, as always for the hottest traditional and contemporary global sounds. Recent improvements to Music Haven’s house and hill have increased the venue’s comfort and capacity and become the impetus for longtime producing artistic director Mona Golub to expand and broaden the program. Concerts take place Sundays in the Summer at

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Albany County District Attorney David Soares, Political Consultant Libby Post, and Associate Editor of The Times Union Mike Spain.

The fifteenth annual Bard SummerScape festival features seven weeks of world-class opera, theater, dance, cabaret, film, and music, including the 29th annual Bard Music Festival, “Rimsky-Korsakov and His World.” Gideon Lester, Director of Theater and Performance Programs at Bard and Artistic Director for SummerScape Dance's “Four Quartets” is here along with acclaimed actress Kathleen Chalfant, who is performing in “Four Quartets” as the narrator reading T.S. Eliot's poems. "Four Quartets" is a

Let us now travel to Cooperstown, NY where the Fenimore Art Museum’s new exhibit: “ Thomas Cole and the Garden of Eden ” is now on display. The exhibition centers on Cole’s masterwork “Expulsion from the Garden of Eden,” lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and explores his aspirations for landscape painting at the start of his career in the 1820s and early 1830s. Sixteen original works, including paintings from the Fenimore’s collection and loans from more than a dozen other institutions

Seymour Hersh's fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every major newspaper in the free world, honors galore, and no small amount of controversy. Now in this memoir, "Reporter," he describes what drove him and how he worked as an independent outsider, even at the nation's most prestigious publications.

Keith Hernandez is a former National League MVP, batting champion, two-time World Series champ, and a beloved New York Met — both on the field and in the broadcast booth. As we found out this spring, he's also pretty good on Twitter. His new book is called “I’m Keith Hernandez,” an account of his early years before the ’82 Cards and the ’86 Mets. We talked about Hernandez’s childhood, the 2018 Mets, and how the sport is changing.

Lucy Cooke is an award-winning filmmaker who has written, produced, and directed several popular documentary series for the BBC, PBS, Discovery, and National Geographic. Her first book, "A Little Book of Sloth," was a New York Times bestseller. She hold an MA in zoology from the University of Oxford. In her new book, "The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife," she takes the reader on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a

The First American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, better known as The Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps, recruited under secret presidential authority. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, they were the first Americans to directly engage with the Japanese, and their exploits became the stuff of legend.

New York Democrats have a decision to make. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York representative Sean Patrick Maloney of the 18 th district wraps up his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are: WAMC’s Alan Chartock , Corporate Attorney Rich Honen , Communications Consultant Joe Bonilla , and Chairman of Capital District Latinos Dan Irizarry .

The government is funded. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York representative Sean Patrick Maloney of the 18 th district continues his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

" The Yellow Ticket " is a 1918 Polish-German film about a young Warsaw woman who hopes to attend medical school in Moscow, but experiences obstacles because she is single and Jewish. It is one of the first films to explore the anti-Semitism rampant in Russia in the early 1900s. "The Yellow Ticket" will be performed with live music by Alicia Svigals and Marilyn Lerner at The Ashokan Center on Sunday, May 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Olivebridge, New York. Alicia Svigals is the world’s leading Klezmer

Today's Book Picks come from Jim Havener of Green Toad Bookstore in Oneonta, NY. List: "The Overstory: A Novel" by Richard Powers " The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath " by Leslien Jamison " Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo " by Zora Neale Hurston "Spring" by Karl Ove Knausgaard " The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century " by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Ken Langone started as a hard-working teenager who dug ditches and collected used cardboard. Now, he’s a billionaire and business icon: a co-founder of Home Depot, a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a world-class philanthropist. It wasn’t easy for an Italian-American kid from a blue-collar family to break into the clubby, WASP-dominated world of Wall Street in the late 1950s. But Langone pulled it off as he explains in his new book, "I Love Capitalism!: An American Story."

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today’s panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain, Communications Consultant Theresa Bourgeois and the Empire Report’s J.P. Miller.