July 7, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Cameron McCloud from Cure for Paranoia, and Jeffrey Seller

Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston and a co-chair of Everyone250, returns for “AI: Actual Intelligence,” The Culture Show’s monthly, algorithm-free conversation with some of the region’s sharpest thinkers. Cameron McCloud, frontman, rapper and songwriter for the Dallas hip-hop collective Cure for Paranoia, joins The Culture Show after the band won NPR’s 2026 Tiny Desk Contest with “No Brainer.” The band brings the Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour to The Sinclair in Cambridge on Tuesday, July 7, at 8 p.m.Tony-winning Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller joins The Culture Show to discuss Theater Kid, his memoir about the life that led him from a childhood outside Detroit to the producer’s chair on Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights and Hamilton. He also looks ahead to Warriors, his latest collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda, headed to Broadway in 2027.