FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE! On this movin' and gryatin' installment of Open Source RVA -- a.k.a. Richmond's audio news digest -- Dina Weinstein talks with Jess Burgess of Dogtown Dance Theatre and the RVA Dance Collective (pictured) about the art of movement in RVA, and about Dogtown Dance Theatre's big Mardi Gras party on Feb. 26. Dina also welcomes William Estremera, a DJ & music promoter organizing a National Day of Salsa event in Richmond in March. He fills listeners in on Richmond's hot Salsa scene. GET YOUR DANCING SHOES ON!! It's Open Source RVA.

Open Source RVA February 25, 2022

A BIG HO-HO-HO! It's Open Source RVA's annual YULELOG edition, featuring seasonal interviews, readings, skits, and songs from the Source family and friends. Among our guests: Maurice Sanabria-Ortiz and Tito Sanabria, of the band Kadencia. The Chesterfield-based bomba/plena band is throwing a "Tropical Christmas show at Richmond Music Hall that highlights the Puerto Rican traditions of Christmas. We also welcome Reese Williams, Chief Communications Officer & Production Coordinator of Shockoe Records. The Richmond based Shockoe has released a new Christmas compilation, with proceeds going to Feed More. PLUS we have Christmas-y contributions from Reese, as well as Dina Weinstein, Tony Jordan, Melissa Vaughn, Goad Gatsby, Olivia Harrison, producer Krysti Albus, production assistant Chuck Moore, Don Harrison, and the rest of the Open Source RVA Holiday Art Players. AND an important holiday message from your Aunt Doreen. It's the 2023 YULELOG!

Open Source RVA 2023 YULELOG

Anti

Fuck

This song was written in response to Kurt Andersen's "Fantasyland."

lyrics

Anne Hutchinson

I spoke to her for the first time in the winter
Just a child, too scared to cry
Lost for hours in the brush along the river
The priest only said she shouldn’t lie

Don’t you know I am the voice that spoke to Daniel
As familiar as your heartbeat bleeding through
The silence builds to an uproar
You will hear my voice speaking to you

A secret she held for so long
The judges told her to confess
But how can a miracle be wrong
She tries, but can’t convert to yes

I am the flesh of your flesh
Humming deep in your bones

Perspective

Fantasyland (rough recording)

What was it like to be a devotee of film noir before most people had ever heard of it? Brooklyn College film professor Foster Hirsch, from the Film Noir Foundation's board of directors, joins us to talk about how the concept of noir became widely known in America--and the time when it wasn't. 

We focus much of our discussion on the writing of his ground-breaking book Film Noir: The Dark Side Of The Screen (1981), one of the first books about noir published in the US. We discuss noir's French origins and how it first became known to American film scholars and cineastes in the 1970s (3:00), the impact of younger filmmakers bringing noir influences to their own work in the early 1980s (16:00), and some of the reasons for the explosion of interest in classic noir since the 1990s (22:45). 

FNF president Eddie Muller also joins us to preview NOIR CITY 16, including details on the restoration of The Man Who Cheated Himself and other rare titles being shown on this year's festival circuit (32:00). 

The Dark Side Of The Screen: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Screen-Film-Noir/dp/0306817721/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Full schedule and tickets for NOIR CITY 16 available at: http://www.noircity.com/

Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes.

Music: Themes from The Big Heat (by Henry Vars), Sudden Fear (Elmer Bernstein), Body Heat (John Barry), and In A Lonely Place (George Antheil).

Ep 12: Film noir before it was famous, with Foster Hirsch + NOIR CITY 16 preview

Telling Stories through Radio in Fulton: The Cornbread Episode

Should cornbread be sweet, savory or spicy? Richmond middle school students at the Neighborhood Resource Center of Greater Fulton tackled the question for their entry into the inaugural NPR Student Podcast Challenge, which received nearly 6,000 entries from around the country. The students cooked and compared different brands of cornbread mix. They were participants in the Art 180 after-school community program, Telling Stories Through Radio in Fulton. The episode was named an Honorable Mention award winner in the NPR contest.

Cornbread Challenge: Richmond Middle School Chefs Put Recipes To The Test

On March 6th, 2010, the world lost the critically acclaimed Virginia-based musician most well known for his work as Sparklehorse. On the ten year commemoration of his passing, B Side News, Richmond Independent Radio and Sparklehorse's devout following of fans continue sharing the life, legacy and slow, dreamy tunes of the iconic cult figure that was Mark Linkous.

B-Side News - Ep 11: Mark Linkous (3/30 Special)

This week on Race Capitol, co-host Naomi Isaac talks with Sarin Glenn from Powershift Network, Virginia Student Power Network alumna, Aida Campos, VCU Student Power organizer, Taylor Maloney, and the librarian of the richmond based Lil Rad Library, Asma, to gain their perspective on the radicalization of today’s Black and Brown youth and why all the kids are claiming communism.

Open Source RVA 2023 YULELOG

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