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Author: Joe Donahue, Sarah LaDuke
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WAMC's The Roundtable is an award-winning, nationally recognized eclectic talk program. The show airs from 9 a.m. to noon each weekday and features news, interviews, in-depth discussion, music, theatre, and more!
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Each weekday morning, The Roundtable's Joe Donahue is joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.
Last week, in celebration of Lunar New Year, CulinaryArts@SPAC welcomed four-time James Beard Award–nominated chef and acclaimed author Natasha Pickowicz for an evening dedicated to the ancient East Asian tradition of hot pot.She was in conversation at SPAC with former New York Times Photo Editor for Food and Style Tiina Loite.
Anne Fadiman is Professor in the Practice of English and Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale. Her most recent book is “Frog,” an essay collection that Booklist called “a joy to read for the etched-glass precision of [Fadiman’s] language and the warmth of her candor and wit”.
The Lift Concert Series at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall presents performances of new, independent music featuring regional performers, curated by S & S Presents, local artists Sam Torres and Sophia Subbayya Vastek. The performances give audiences the unique opportunity to sit on the historic stage with the artists while they perform. The first Lift concert at the historic music hall is on February 18 and will feature The Millstone Rounders. Sam Torres and Sophia Subbayya Vastek join us to tell us more.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are The Ulster County Comptroller and the former president and CEO of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley March Gallagher, writer and analyst, recently retired President of Siena College and former NY Congressman Chris Gibson, professor in the History Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) Allison Kavey, and CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan.
Nicole Zuraitis is a 2X GRAMMY® winning and 6X GRAMMY-nominated jazz singer-songwriter, pianist and arranger, New York-based bandleader and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal.On Valentines Day, this coming Saturday, she’ll perform at Hudson Hall in Hudson, New York.
The 49th Annual Saratoga Jazz Festival, presented by GE Vernova, will return for a full two-day and two-stage weekend experience on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Featuring a roster of 22 musical groups and 13 festival debuts, the 2026 line-up is headlined by R&B legend Patti LaBelle and multi-platinum, New Orleans rock collective The Revivalists.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Joseph Palamountain Jr. Chair in Government atSkidmore College Beau Breslin, Corporate Attorney with Phillips Lytle LLP Rich Honen, and Associate Professor in the department of sociology at Vassar College Catherine Tan.
The new book, Ballot, examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an increasingly anti-voting climate. Armed with her personal experiences as a poll worker, electoral organizer, and activist, Anjali Enjeti presents the precarious state of the ballot during one of the most tumultuous political eras in US history.
"Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop: Santa Monica’s Legendary Music Venue" is a new book from Peter Lesser, the former executive director of The Egg. McCabe’s has been hosting icons and legends of folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word and world music since 1969.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Stuart Rice Honorary Chair at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Fran Berman, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, Semi-retired lawyer who now reports for The Columbia Paper, a weekly covering Columbia County Deborah Lans, and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Robert Pondiscio.
The two-time Grammy Award-winning Albany Symphony Orchestra will present a pair of performances at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 3 PM. It is Valentine's Day Weekend, and the orchestra welcomes us to a program filled with passion, poetry, and musical colors. From the stormy drama of Tchaikovsky and the intimate heartbreak of Mahler to a radiant new world premiere and the joyful warmth of Schumann, the concert follows love in all its forms.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College Robert Brigham, The Empire Report’s JP Miller, and Former Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick.
Unless you were camping near El Yunque National Forest or out kayaking on the bioluminescent Mosquito Bay on Vieques, you likely watched Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio - aka Bad Bunny’s - energetic carnival of a Super-Bowl Halftime show last night.The field at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco was transformed into a mini-Puerto Rico with power lines under repair, Bad Bunny’s signature colorful casita, and rows and rows of sugar cane and island grasses. Here’s the mojito with a twist: these bushes were people.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Diplomat in residence at Bard College Ambassador Frederic Hof, Senior Fellow, Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jim Ketterer, Executive Director of Communities for Local Power and former White House Advance Lead Anna Markowitz, and Political Consultant and lobbyist Libby Post.
Each weekday morning, The Roundtable's Joe Donahue is joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.
The late historian David Mccullough is very much missed, but the new book “History Matters,” posthumously published this fall, helps us remember why history is so important for all of us and is under threat. Especially now, given the current scrutiny how the Smithsonian Museum and our National Parks are telling American history. “History Matters” is a collection of Mccullough’s essays that address the importance of history especially our shared history as Americans. Many of the essays have never been published, the collection includes a foreword by Jon Meacham, the book is edited by McCullough’s daughter Dorie Mccullough Lawson, and his longtime researcher Michael Hill.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan, and Former Associate Editor of The Times-Union, Mike Spain.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Joseph Palamountain Jr. Chair in Government at Skidmore College Beau Breslin, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI Jim Hendler, and Former Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick.This is an abbreviated panel that is taking place during WAMC's February Fund Drive.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are The Ulster County Comptroller and the former president and CEO of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley March Gallagher, a grants analyst based in Albany Emily Honen, and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Robert Pondiscio.This is an abbreviated panel that is taking place during WAMC's February Fund Drive.






21st June, 2024: Been over a week and no new episodes are appearing. Is there an issue? Thanks.