Arts Express

Arts Express 7-30-22 Featuring Alan Cumming

** Cabaret and GoldenEye actor Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod talk about their true story of deception, My Old School
** Nana Mensah Talks Queen Of Glory and finding the humanity of the central character Meeko, a Latin Kings gang member turned actor

Arts Express 7-21-22 Featuring Actress Natascha McElhone

** Hotel Portofino: Natascha McElhone as the proprietor of a deceptively serene hotel, dodging Italian fascists. She also talks about Surviving Picasso and her new film Carmen.
** You're Not My Enemy, The Media Is: the "Media outrage machine."

Arts Express 7-16-22 Featuring Musician Jim Messina

* Jim Messina looks back on his musical journey, his latest album, tour, and Loggins & Messina
* Bro On The Global Television Beat: How To Organize A Union: 'The Porter' And Black Militancy 
* A performance of poet Kenneth Patchen, featuring Arts Express crew actress extraordinaire, Mary Murphy

Arts Express 7-09-22 Featuring Montel Williams

* A Conversation With Montel Williams. About racism and his latest film - When George Floyd Got Murdered.
* "Meet Juan Guaido": Frank Capra's 1941 populist comedy Meet John Doe - rerun as imperialist farce.
* F. Kafka's "Before the Law"

Arts Express 7-02-22 Featuring Civil RIghts Attorney Ben Crump

** Ben Crump Talks Civil: A new documentary about the acclaimed civil rights attorney's activism** Destiny of Civilization: Michael Hudson's book on the rentier class destroying the world** Bro on the Global TV beat

Arts Express 6-23-22 Featuring Actor Carl Lumbly

** Carl Lumbly Talks Birth Of The Cool: The eminent veteran actor of color's portrayal of Miles Davis  and more.
** The Youth Report: Deep dive into the media's U-Turn on Ukraine

Arts Express 6-18-22 Featuring Musician Graham Nash

* Graham Nash Talks Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Music, Memories, War - and a multitude of magical moments through the years* Concert In The Barn: A conversation with musician, composer, 'earth music' pioneer and 7-time Grammy Award winner Paul Winter

Arts Express 6-11-22 Featuring Director Terence Davies

* Veteran film director Terence Davies on Benediction, about anti-war poet Sigfried Sassoon
* Shimrit Lee Talks Decolonize Museums: stolen goods, enslaved Africans, and the MOVE bombing
* Bro on TV: Baltimore and Paris killer cops

Arts Express 6-4-22 Featuring Actor Rory Culkin

** Rory Culkin Talks Under The Banner Of Heaven, pertaining to the crimes and coverups of the Mormon Church
** Things Aren't What They Appear To Be: how magic reminds us we're vulnerable to deception and propaganda
** George Bush Gets Pranked!
**The One-Minute Marxist

Arts Express 5-25-22 Featuring Actor David Patrick Kelly

* David Patrick Kelly talks David Lynch, Walter Hill, James Agee, Irish Accents, and depicting folklorist John Lomax in Night Music
* Castro's Spies: Director Gary Lennon on his documentary depicting the heroic undercover Cubans known as the Cuban Five infiltrating Miami 

Arts Express 5-21-22 Featuring Actor Shiloh Fernandez

* Shiloh Fernandez Talks Private Property, touching on class divisions, race, sex, immigration, and economic disparities
* Karl Marx's birthday brings The Communist Manifesto--a dramatic reading 
* Cancel Culture Un-Cancelled 

Arts Express 5-14-22 Featuring Actor David Patrick Kelly

* Adieu Lacan: A Conversation with Actor David Patrick Kelly
* Book Corner: Desegregation of the NYC Schools with author Theresa Canada, herself part of a 1960s desegregation experiment
*Bro on Lost People, Places And Spaces: The 2022 Crime Novel