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Apropos Of Something: Bias Keeps Us Unhealthy & Discovering Histories Stories

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Michael D. Williams MD, Assoc. Professor of Surgery and Director, The UVA Center for Health Policy, on remedying bias in our healthcare system; and Brendan Wolfe, noted author, essayist, editor, on his latest book, Mr. Jefferson’s Telescope, as well as his love of history.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Monster Show: John Johnson Founder of Darkstone Entertainment

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David and Leslie are back together again just in time to talk to a Charlottesville arts figure. We welcome to the show, for the first time, John Johnson, founder of Darkstone Entertainment, where he has written, directed, and produced his own horror TV shows, short films, and feature films. Recently, John has experimented with reworking existing films, and we talk about his remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space and his plans to remake [Manos: Hands of Fate}(http://www.darkstone-ent.com/manos.html). We also talk about a development in John’s personal life that he’s just shared with the world, his diagnosis as having Parkinsons Disease. You don’t want to miss this week’s Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Activism Makes For Neighborhood Mission Statement & Novel Ideas

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Steven Thomas, a restorative justice coordinator, scholar and community activist, on how to cultivate and celebrate neighborhood diversity, block by block; and Corban Addison, bestselling author, activist and humanitarian, on the refugee crisis as a global plot point and Supreme Court flash point.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Wake-Up Call: Voting Rights and Prosecutorial Reform

Claire Guthrie Gastasaga.

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastanaga from the Virginia Chapter of the ACLU about voting rights and prosecutorial reform. Also, absentee voting and changing Virginia’s constitution.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: Machinal: Lissa Fulton and Gil Mitchell from Mary Baldwin University

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, it’s week two of a no show guest! (Seriously, people! What’s going on?) Fortunately David and Clinton had two young artists from Mary Baldwin University who were more than willing to fill the space. Lissa Fulton and Gil Mitchell from Mary Baldwin’s Theatre Department come to the show to talk about their upcoming production, Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. We have Lissa and Gil for the whole hour, and they talk the machines of society, the benefits of non-realistic theater, and Shakespeare in Abu Dhabi. “Local” art also means art over the mountain here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Minding Your Heart’s IQ & Sizing Up Beauty

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Tish Jennings PhD, Assoc. Professor, Curry School of Education, Senior Fellow, Garrison Institute, on how to take stress out of the classroom; and Francesca Calamita PhD, Asst. Professor, UVA’s Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, on the paradoxical roles women have in life, art and language.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Wake-Up Call: North Korea and the US Summit

Todd Sechser

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with University of Virginia Professor of Politics Todd Sechser about USA relations with North Korea and the proposed upcoming US Summit.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: Downtown Lunchtime Treat: Christ Church’s Alice Layman and Bach’s Lunch

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, Clinton is left to flounder as one of two scheduled guests doesn’t show and as Leslie and David are out. Fortunately, our first guest is as dependable as she is delightful. Alice Layman is the organist and choir director of Christ Episcopal Church in Downtown Charlottesville. She returns to the show to talk about the free, weekly, lunchtime concert series for the month of May that she originated — Bach’s Lunch — now in it’s 30th year! It’s secular music in a sacred space on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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To Your Health: Good Stuff

Host M.C. Blair reviews the benefits of coconut oil. Also, pressure on the Charlottesville City Market to keep prepared food vendors from buying ingredients from outside, non local sources. Elana (Elana’s Pies and Cakes) and Lauren (Free Union Grass Farm) join the conversation.

Each week To Your Health hosts M.C. Blair talks to local growers and food producers. Join him on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville every Saturday from 11 a.m. to Noon.

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Apropos Of Something: Miss Representation In Media & Arming Students With Purpose

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Andrea Press PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Prof. of Media Studies and Sociology, writer, feminist, on the media’s effect on gender and class; and Eric Irizarry PhD, Principal, Charlottesville High School, on the impact of gun violence on students’ daily life and school operations.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Wake-Up Call: Albemarle County Schools: Student Centers

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks to Student Center Leader Jeff Prillaman, Technology Integrator Gene Osborn and Math, Engineering and Science Academy member Erin Hensien about the building and operation of student centers in place of new high school facilities. Topics include: The emphasis on math and science learning and innovating with the private sector.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: Community: Writer Cliff Garstang from SWAG and Painter Frank Walker

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, Leslie returns … well, most of her. She seems to have misplaced her voice, but she and David soldier on! Cliff Garstang joins us from over the mountain. He’s the founder of SWAG – The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writer’s Club and the organizer of a poetry reading at Black Swan Books & Music. We talk to Cliff about what makes this reading (during National Poetry Month) special, and he talks about the importance of artists having a community to work with. Then, Charlottesville painter Frank Walker comes on the show and utterly beguiles us. He has a joint portraiture show with Jae Jae Johnson called Visage at New City Arts. So we start to talk to Frank about portraiture and very quickly move on to talk about the nature of art. It’s all art / no snobbery here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.