January 22, 2025 - Jenny Johnson and Billy Costa, Pedro Alonzo and Jackson Polys, and the BPL's Winter Reading Challenge

The dynamic dining duo, Jenny Johnson and Billy Costa join the Culture Show to go over the local restaurant acne, from the latest openings, to the latest closings and must-have meals. Jenny Johnson and Billy Costa are co-hosts of NESN's "Dining Playbook" and "Meet Boston with Billy and Jenny.” Their  new book is  “A Taste of Boston: The Definitive Cookbook of the City We Love.” From there it’s countdown to the Boston Public Art Triennial.  It will feature 18 large-scale public art commissions, by local, national and international artists. Including the artist collective  and self-proclaimed  “public secret society,” New Red Order, whose work imagines what an Indigenous future could look like.  Multimedia artist Jackson Polys is one of the core members. Polys and culture show contributor Pedro Alonzo, who is  Artistic Director of the Boston Public Art Triennial, join The Culture Show.Finally, we get an overview of the Boston Public Library’s Winter Reading Challenge to read a book by an author from each of six geographic regions: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Veronica Koven-Matasy, the reader services supervisor at the central library in Copley Square, joins The Culture Show for an overview.