Arts Express

Arts Express 4-2-25 featuring Steve Coogan

* Steve Coogan Talks The Penguin Lessons & his 4 roles in the Dr. Strangelove stage adaptation* Broe and Prof Toby Miller from our Mexico City desk: Trump may be bad for the US - but very good for CBS* Tribute to the artist and political activist, the late Tom Keough* UK Desk rebuttal re Repeater books 

Arts Express 3-26-25 Featuring Amy Schumacher

* Amy Schumacher Talks Screamboat and her MFA at a Russian acting conservatory* Bro on Sports: Vegas gambling halls; Trump, Israel and money laundering - & the world's 8th richest woman* Red Rosa: Kate Evans reads Luxemburg's letters
*And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 3-19-25 Featuring Author Elizabeth Hand

* Elizabeth Hand Talks First Word On Horror & the new series featuring horror writers reading from their work* UK Desk: Erasure, Retaliation, Corporate Executing - The case of Repeater Books* Red Rosa (Luxemburg):  Kate Evans on her graphic history of the great socialist
* And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 3-12-25 Featuring Casper Van Dien

* Casper Van Dien, known for Starship Troopers, takes a detour with the unconventional, post-Civil War western, Guns Of Redemption* UK Desk: 'Staring into the abyss.' * Bro on Steven Knight's drama, charting the brutality of the British ruling class

Arts Express 3-5-25 Featuring MSNBC Host Alex Wagner

* MSNBC Host Alex Wagner Checks In - Or Rather Out, of her just cancelled show. And Trumpland* Rebel youth singer/songwriter Jesse Welles* Bro on the Arts Express with a stopover in Austria, rejecting the drive toward war with Russia* And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 2-26-25 Featuring Peter Browngardt

* The Day The Earth Blew Up. Peter Browngardt, the writer, director, animator and co-star of the latest Looney Tunes incarnation* Firesign - A continuing conversation re the Firesign Theatre with author Jeremy Braddock * And Garland Nixon on AI

Arts Express 2-19-25 Featuring Renee Taylor

* Renee Taylor Talks Magic Hour, playing Eva Braun in The Producers & her bond with late husband Joseph Bologna* Firesign - Jeremy Braddock on the 1970s surreal comedy foursome, The Firesign Theatre* Bro reads from The Dark Ages, his latest mystery thriller

Arts Express 2-12-25 Featuring Renate Reinsve

* Renate Reinsve Talks Armand and A Different Man, and what it's like to be directed by the grandson of Ingmar Bergman & Liv Ullmann* UK Desk: Reflections on the late Japanese novelist, Osamu Dazai, forced to renounce his communism* And Amiri Baraka and Garland Nixon! 

Arts Express 2-5-25 Featuring Tommy Davidson

* Tommy Davidson Talks "Stronger" & his stunning, musical collaboration with Earth, Wind & Fire* JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey talk The Strike, inmate hunger strikers 30,000 strong* Sergei Toymentsev on Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Of Contradictions 
* and Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 1-29-25 Featuring Director Rob Tregenza

* Filmmaker Rob Tregenza on The Fishing Place,  his WWII Norway Nazis revisited reverie, and The Sad And Lonely Death Of Edgar Allan Poe* The Strike: the story of the 30,000 prisoner hunger strike started by the inmates in solitary at Pelican Bay Prison* Bro on The Journey of Simon McKeever, the film that never happened
*And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 1-22-25 Featuring Jacqueline Bisset

* Jacqueline Bisset Talks Loren & Rose, Truffaut,  Sinatra, Surviving Hollywood - and the LA fires* UK Desk: Remembering David Lynch--who "gave me permission in a way, to believe in myself."* The Ultimate Hidden Truth Of The World: David Graeber* And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 1-15-25 Featuring Jason Flemyng

* The Stoic: A Conversation with actor & activist Jason Flemyng* Dennis Broe's The Dark Ages Return, his latest Harry Palmer mystery thriller* UK Desk: A political, historical and surreal faceoff, channeling chaos, Zuckerberg, and cactus needles