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Carleigh Nesbit dropped by WNRN this morning to promote her new album and CD release party with band-mates Carl Anderson and Jeff Romano. She was interviewed by Anne Williams on Acoustic Sunrise and played a few songs. Carleigh’s CD release party is on Friday, September 26, at Gravity Lounge.
Wild Sweet Orange stopped by at WNRN before their show with What Made Milwaukee Famous at Gravity Lounge for some music and conversation with Ronda Chollock.
They played “Either/Or” and “Ten Dead Dogs”, both of which appear on their album “We Have Cause to be Uneasy.” You can check out the videos here.
This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call the conversation is all about the ‘Buy Local, Eat Local’ food scene. Area restaurateurs Kate Collier (Feast!) and Will Richey (Revolutionary Soup) join Melissa Harris and Jennifer Seidel from the new Flavor magazine along with host Rick Moore to discuss independent farms and sustainable agriculture. How do current Virginia laws help the large, industrial food system while hurting area farmers? How is it financially viable for a small restaurant to use better tasting but more expensive foods? Exactly what is a super-model vegetable and why are they to be shunned? What can you do to help this concept continue its growth?
According to Ben Nuckols, Woody Allen has increased his average to .222, making another good film with Vicky Christina Barcelona. In this installment of WNRN’s 91 Seconds on Film, he explains how. Or, read his entry on his blog, the Ill-Informed Gadfly.
On the August 17th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with UVA Professor Bradley Reed, specialist in Late Imperial and Modern China. The 2008 Olympics have served to introduce post-Mao China to the world. Our guest provides a sense of history and culture to modern China’s 21st century “coming out” party.
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Jesse Harper dropped by the WNRN studio on August 15 to give an interview with Anne Williams and play some songs. Jesse is the front-man for Old School Freight Train. He performed at Gravity Lounge on August 16 to celebrate the release of his new CD. You can watch the video of his visit here.
Another summer, another raunchy comedy from Judd Apatow. Ben Nuckols has seen Stepbrothers, the movie with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in which two middle-aged slackers become family. What is the ultimate destination of a movie like this? Listen in, or read Ben’s review on the Ill-Informed Gadfly
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On the July 27th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Sean McCord, Joe Crisp and UVA adjunct professor Pete Ronanye were Rick Moore’s guests for a round table discussion on politics. Some of the issues discussed were the Presidential race, the Iraq War, the reasons for rising gas prices, whether offshore drilling will alleviate the problem, Senator Obama’s visit to Iraq and methods of campaigning. For details, listen to the podcast and express your opinion by commenting after the show!
In this installment of WNRN’s 91 Seconds on Film, Ben Nuckols reviews Hellboy II – The Golden Army. He also his review posted on his blog, the Ill-Informed Gadfly.
In this installment of WNRN’s 91 Seconds on Film, Elizabeth Milnarick reviews Leatherheads, George Clooney’s movie about the inauspicious rise of the National Football League. This podcast is brought to you by Sneak Reviews. Leatherheads is currently playing at the Downtown Regal 6.
Jesse Winchester is described on the Gravity Lounge’s website as the “music world’s most prominent Vietnam War draft-evader.” Winchester moved to Montreal in the late 60’s to protest the war, which prevented him from touring to support his music. But he continued writing and releasing music, and now he’s appearing at the Gravity Lounge tonight (December 15).
Check out all of WNRN’s artist interviews on their YouTube page.