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The Short Fuse Podcast — 89 episodes
Frederick Douglass: Our North Star
"Can the arts create a ruckus?"
Arvo Part Out of Silence
A Library on Death Row
Cinema Rodrigo: Talking Film
Oarabile Ditsele: Reimagining Theater Through Gen Z
I Hope You Find What You're Looking For
Big House Books - When to Hold the line
Bad Bad Girl
Broadway, Bars & Fortune
Shakespeare in South Africa: Now and Then
Mother Africa: Celebrating African Jazz at Lincoln Center
Open Book: Reading South Africa
Bearing Witness: theatre in South Africa
Reading the City with Tyler Wetherall
Reading and Talking Film: Sonya Chung, Film Forum
The Museum of Other People
The Swans of Harlem
Faulkner's Influence
"Authentic"
Arts Commentary and Criticism: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Winnie and Nelson Mandela through the lens of time and history.
The Book Post USA
Jasmine Rice Labeija from Juilliard to performing as a Drag Queen
The Plot to Save South Africa
Unfamiliar Terrain
Reflections from Turtle Island
Free Tasha Shelby
Memory, Healing, Dialogue: Bloomberg Philanthropies' Public Art Challenge
Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story
Breath, Suspended
"I made a mistake."
Talking Appalachian after the floods
Meredith Hall
From Madison Avenue to Rikers Island
Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet's Work in the Community
On Pause: Three Months that Changed New York
Desmond Tutu: Then and Now
The power of music: Living with Hope
Race for Tomorrow
Lessons Superpredators Teach Us
The Greatest American Play?
Zakes Mda's Washboards and MIrrors at the South African Cultural Center
Film About a Father Who
Bloodlines, Punk Picks and Other Delights
Poetry
Promise Witness Remembrance
Finding home through song: A conversation with Naledi Masilo
Inviting Readers into a Brightly Lit Room
Seeing Silicon Valley: the Fraying of Life in America
Cultural Concierge Jesse Kornbluth's lens on the Oscars
Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director of the New Museum, in conversation around "Grief and Grievance"
Conversation with Neal Goren, conductor and artistic director, Catapult Opera
S3 E9: An Interview with Merli V. Guerra
S3 E8: An Interview with Steve Provizer
S3 E7: Matt, Bill, and The 2020 Fusical
S3 E6: An Interview with Teagan Stewart
S3 E5: The Show Must Go On(line)
S3 E4: Matt & Lucas, Abridged
S3 E3: A Birthday Show, Recorded Before 2020 Really Sucked
S3 E2: The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards
S3 E1: An Interview with Felicia Angeja Viator
S2 E9: Live Music with Aaron Halford & Matty Michna
S2 E8: An Interview with Andrew Silver & Tim Jackson
S2 E7: Creative Couples
S2 E6: Hopes & Gripes: The 2020 Grammys
S2 E5: 2020s Predictions & 2010s Pitfalls
S2 E4: Holiday Arts Events & Shows of 2019
S2: E3: Matt & Lucas Return
S2 E2: Glenn Rifkin & Kanye Grumblin'
S2 E1: The Dawn of Deanna's Takeover
Ep 18 - The end of an era
Ep 17 - When the games are so unjust...
Ep 16 - Encrypted telegraphs with Lt. Deanna
Ep 15 - REE-AL-O-TEE!
Ep 14 - Dialectics of politicized art, or the intellectual history of white men in cars
Ep 13 - Everything you've wanted to know about book reviews but were afraid to ask
Ep 12 - Howl at the loon
Ep. 11 - Skinny Jerry Garcia and Nixon read poetry
Ep 10 - The audacity of art
Ep 9 - Melted into air on the fringe, the David Miller interview
Ep. 8 - Good riddance, 2018...
"People are like ferrets!"
Ep.6 - The Father, Son, and Ms. Boudreau
This is why we can't have nice things
The left is not fucking Aaron Sorkin
Bonus - Extended conversation with Bill Marx
Funny 'haha' or funny peculiar? The Matt Christman Interview
The theme of this show is a trainwreck