Arts Express

** About Him & Her: A Conversation With Callan McAuliffe. Playing a troubled Chicago artist who falls in love virtually, before the digital age. 
** Paintings In Movies from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of A Lady On Fire
** Two May birthday music legends jam

* Novelist Dennis Lehane talks Small Miracles, the writers strike, and adapting his novels to film
* Bro on "Series TV After the Deluge:" Bank failures, budgets and the new conservatism in programming
* Same Propaganda, Different Day--The Case of Red Dawn

* Jon Voight talks Mercy and Coppola's Megalopolis, and his new doc about Midnight Cowboy
* Garland Nixon on Corporate Media Watch
* How Hollywood Sells Us War - Hollywood's Crucial Role In The Military Industrial Complex

* Leslie Uggams talks Dottie & Soul in a conversation about defying race and class in her latest film
* Julian Assange's Letter to Charles
* Dennis Broe on the Hollywood Writers Strike
* Garland Nixon's Corporate Media Watch

* Actress Famke Janssen Talks Knights Of The Zodiac--and how she is drawn to take-charge female film roles 
* Caitlin Johnstone with a real Mothers Day poem
* Dennis Broe converses with historian Gerald Horne about neo-colonialism
* Empire Hollywood: The Pentagon Calls the Shots

* Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Byways, Blade Runner, and his photography 
* "Red Iowa:" Peter Wise tells tales of the "Global Trotsky"
* Dirty Work-- prisons, slaughterhouses and drones operators as the hidden dirty work that is essential to capitalism
* "The New McCarthyism Censorship," with Garland Nixon

* Actor Yul Vazquez Talks White House Plumbers and Godfather Of Harlem
* The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems and Snippets from Political activist and poet, Mitchel Cohen, Part 2
* 32 Sounds: Filmmaker Sam Green on his immersive new documentary on the power of sound
* Garland Nixon commentary on those who push our buttons

** Comedian W. Kamau Bell Talks Growing Up Mixed: Taking up race as no laughing matter
** Red Iowa: Artists Peter Wise and Cecile Houel talk art & politics
** Jack & Rick with Bob & Ray homage episode #2
** Garland Nixon on US Empire, Crime Scenes Edition

** Chaos Of Color: A Conversation With Uriah Heep guitarist, Mick Box.
** Caitlin Johnstone on NPR and its wild biases, greasing the wheels of the US empire.
** Garland Nixon on "Why I oppose imperialism."
** The Statue of David --Controversy, Now And Then

* CNN analyst Elie Honig Talks Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It
* Garland Nixon dissects how propaganda works
* Broe on Dispatches: The Invaders - Alien beings from a dying empire 
* Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs Of Mary Rodgers

** Filmmaker, writer John Sayles talks Jamie MacGillivray, his new novel 
** Joel Thurm visits the Hollywood casting couch
** Activist/poet Mitchel Cohen presents "The Rubber Stamp Man" Pt. 1
** Peter Wise celebrates musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron 

** John Shipton Talks Ithaka: His struggle to free his son Julian Assange from captivity
** Art Express Artist-In-Residence Peter Wise on the necessity of artists to fight the Deep State in their work. HIs work can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192835167@N04
** Coriolanus, Shakespeare's most class-conscious play