Paul  Etheredge's Album

Piston’s Orchestration [original instrumental]

Louisiana Story [original instrumental]

Metric Modulation [original instrumental]

Kirchner at Harvard [original instrumental]

Crumb’s Tibetan Prayer Stones [original instrumental]

Husa in Ithaca [original instrumental]

Kyle Gann Was Right [original instrumental]

Gunther, Don’t Cross the Streams! [original instrumental]

Hsueh-Yung Shen [original instrumental]

Shapely Ralph’s 90 Rejection [original instrumental]

Wuorinen Has a Point [original instrumental]

Ellington Shafted in Harlem [original instrumental]

John Luther Vandross Adams [original instrumental]

Fourth Reich’s a Charm [original instrumental]

Tony Cirone’s Scotch Snap [original instrumental]

Dang. [original instrumental]

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 1/13/25 [KSJS-only]

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, NICKEL BOYS chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers in the 1960s-- one of whom was falsely accused of a crime-- who met while attending the Nickel Academy, a brutal, real-life reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. We met up with director/ co-screenwriter RaMell Ross.

Then, we note two recent passings with two conversations from the archive:

From 2017: If your idea of a Decameron-inspired medieval comedy involves an escaped servant, a convent full of emotionally unstable, sexually-repressed nuns and a lot of temptation, then meet THE LITTLE HOURS-- or at least, its director/ co-writer Jeff Baena (LIFE AFTER BETH; JOSHY)! 

From 2004: Alfie is the epitome of the swinging bachelor archetype-- a charming, swaggering philosopher/womanizer who, after a night of unrestrained passion, is forced to question his seemingly-carefree existence. Director/co-writer Charles Shyer chats about his update of the 1963 film starring Michael Caine.  

Finally, from 2020, for our first COVID Zoom: Based on Jerzy Kosinski's novel, the intense and horrific THE PAINTED BIRD follows a young Jewish boy in war-torn Eastern Europe during World War II who journeys home after his guardian dies, and his encounters with wild characters and unnamable cruelty, all while trying to simply survive. Actor Udo Kier (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN; DOWNSIZING) joined us to elucidate on acting in a movie that's difficult to watch. 

"Screen Scene" movie reviews return next week!

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This week's featured soundtrack: FLOW (music by Gints Zilbalodis & Rihards Zalupe) [Milan Records]

RAMELL ROSS (Nickel Boys) + Obituaries + NEW MOVIE REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 1-13-25

Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog. She joins to discuss her long and illustrious career as a playwright, musician, and novelist.

Best of Design Matters: Suzan-Lori Parks

On sale May 20th, 2025

Pulitzer Prize winning writer, editor and TV host Jonathan Capehart recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity and finding his voice.

MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart is one of the most recognizable faces in cable news. But long before that success, Capehart spent his boyhood growing up without his father, shuttling back and forth between New Jersey and rural Severn, North Carolina, and contemplating the complexities of race and identity as they shifted around him. It was never easy bridging two worlds; whether being told he was too smart or not smart enough, too Black or not Black enough, Capehart struggled to find his place. Then, an internship at The Today Show altered the course of his life, bringing him one step closer to his dream. From there, Capehart embarks on a journey of self-discovery. 

Yet Here I Am takes us along that journey, from his years at Carleton College, where he learns to embrace his identity as a gay Black man surrounded by a likeminded community; to his decision to come out to his family, risking rejection; and finally to his move to New York City, where time and again he stumbles and picks himself up as he blazes a path to become the familiar face in news we know today.   

Honest and endearing, Yet Here I Am is an inspirational memoir of identity, opportunity, and finding one's voice and purpose along the way. 

Listen Here

Yet Here I Am By Jonathan Capehart (Audiobook Excerpt)

Grammy-winning audiobook publisher. Authors include James Patterson, David Baldacci, and Michael Connelly. Earbuds encouraged. Follow us on Twitter at @HachetteAudio.

Design Matters by Debbie Millman features interviews with designers, artists and cultural leaders, including Lawrence Weiner, Barbara Kruger, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Kandel, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Michael Arad, Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, Steven Heller, Jonah Lehrer, among others.

In 2011, Design Matters received the People’s Design Award from the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

Subscribe to Design Matters for free on iTunes, where new episodes are uploaded weekly: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

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