New York’s City of the Sun is a worldly, genre-bending acoustic trio based in Brooklyn, NY. Formed in 2011, COS features guitarists John Pita, and percussionist Zach Para. They honed their sound busking on the streets of New York City, then graduated to selling out major NYC venues. The group gained wider attention after performing at Ted talk conferences and Sofar Sounds secret shows.

will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.

A reporting project from WNYC combining the work of public radio newsrooms and their listeners as the way we build, rebuild and get around the nation changes. Tune in for news on sustainable transport, cities, infrastructure and smart policy. 

Members: of clubs that will not have me. performer, writer, giver, taker, yeller, listener, love-lover, rule-hater. my first book, “THE ART OF ASKING” paperback is OUT NOW: http://www.amandapalmer.net i wrote it. i post often on instagram and twitter: @amandapalmer love.
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musician + policy at #TXLege ~ host of A Lot of Good People Told Me podcast ~ lbj school and lbj women's campaign school alum ~ 7th-generation Texan ~ yeehaw

Employee of the Month Show with Catie Lazarus is a live late night talk show, recorded for podcast. 

After dropping out of her doctoral studies in psychology to do comedy, the comedian wanted to ask people she admired about their careers, be it the good, bad and absurd.   Lazarus has interviewed folks like Gloria Steinem, Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Jon Stewart, Zadie Smith, Rachel Maddow, Patton Oswalt, Justin Vivian Bond, Nicholas Kristof, Edie Falco, Lee Fields, Cynthia Nixon, Masha Gessen, Daveed Diggs, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Alex Lacamoire, Maria Popova, Jon Hamm, Tara Brach, Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, Samantha Powers, Jon Hamm, Congressman Barney Frank, Steven Wright, Greta Gerwig, Keegan Michael  Key, Bridget Everett, Fred Armisen, Lewis Black, Sarah Silverman, Tim Blake Nelson, Sharon Van Etten, Chris Jackson, Nate Silver, Edie Falco, David Cross, Rosie Perez, Fred Armisen, Tim Blake Nelson,  Hari Kunzru, Nicole Holofcener, Wally Shawn, Laura Benanti, Larry Kramer, Tig Notaro, Al Jaffee, Alex Borstein, Triumph the Insult Dog, The Muppets Grover and Elmo, Esther Perel, Seth Godin, John Turturo, and many more exceptional folks. 

Since 2009, Lazarus has hosted the longest running late night talk show hosted by a female. Each of her guests receives the coveted Employee of the Month Award, which falls somewhere between a Nobel Peace Prize and free cup of coffee.  


Due to Covid and democracy eating itself alive, live shows are on hold, but you can listen to the podcast and see videos on Youtube of it. www.employeeofthemonthshow.com or @catielazarus on Twitter.

Meditation teacher, author, and clinical psychologist: Tara Brach has practiced and taught meditation for over 40 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is a teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is the author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, Radical Compassion, and Trusting the Gold. Her podcasts are downloaded over 2 million times a month.

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