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

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

On this monumental installment of Open Source RVA, host Don Harrison talks with Dr. Gregg D. Kimball and Dr. Lauranett Lee, two of the members of Mayor Levar Stoney's Monument Avenue Commission What will be done with the exhaustive report -- culled from months of public hearings and citizen outreach -- that the volunteer commission published earlier this year, including its recommendations for dealing with the city's controversial Confederate monuments? Then our own Leslie Hayden talks to Elegba Folklore Society's Janine Bell and Joe Bailey of Island catering, about the 2018 Capital City Kwanzaa Festival - December 29, 2018 at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. We've also got another splashy installment of Curtain Call, our bi-weekly look at Richmond Theater, produced by the Richmond Theatre Critics Circle. This week, reviewers Julinda D. Lewis, Rich Griset and Jerry Williams discuss "A Doll's House" at TheatreLAB and Hanover Tavern's "The Game's Afoot." OPEN SOURCE RVA IS RICHMOND'S AUDIO NEWS DIGEST! Catch the rising fever at noon on WRIR 97.3 FM and http://wrir.org.

Open Source RVA December 14, 2018

Telling Stories through Radio in Fulton: The Cornbread Episode

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 December 14, 2018

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