Arts Express

Arts Express 12-6-23 Featuring Actor Steve Schirripa

* Actor Steve Schirripa Talks The Sopranos, Blue Bloods* Becoming Ella Fitzgerald with author Judith Tick* A Conversation With David Archibald - the Scottish professor and performer on Tracking Ken Loach* Garland Nixon on Gaza

Arts Express 11-29-23 Featuring Adrien Brody

* Adrien Brody Talks Masculine Identity In Crisis in his new film Manodrome* Israelism: A new film doc on American Jewish youth turning against Zionism.* The homeless crisis gets personal* Garland Nixon on the pirates of the American Empire

Arts Express 11-22-23 Featuring Aaron Neville

* Black and Choctaw Native American Aaron Neville talks Music and Memoir: Tell It Like It Is, My Story* Pepe Escobar on the Mummy and Xi* Werner Herzog, Radical Dreamer* Garland Nixon on the Colonial Wound

Arts Express 11-15-23 Featuring Actor Noah Wylie

* Noah Wylie Talks At The Gates, ER Memories, and strike resolution. * The Poetry Of Caitlin Johnstone. "In Times Such as These"* Brett Gregory probes the film essay Looking Forward* Dennis Broe on mind-numbing media spectacle* Garland Nixon on the monsters who rule

Arts Express 11-8-23 Featuring the Shirelles’ Beverly Lee

* The Shirelles' Beverly Lee talks the groundbreaking 60s girl groups * A Creature Wanting Form: author Luke O'Neil in conversation about his fiction & non-fiction* Actors' strike update with actor/filmmaker Harley Wallen* Garland Nixon on genocide

Arts Express 11-1-23 Featuring Actor Terrence Howard

* Terrence Howard Talks Empire, Hustle & Flow, and his upcoming Shirley Chisholm biopic, Shirley
* AE Fave Mary Murphy discusses film, theater, tv, animation, video games, voice acting, and the actors' strike 
* Garland Nixon on "Why We Blow Ourselves Up"

Arts Express 10-25-23 Featuring Actress/Musician Alicia Witt

* Alicia Witt Talks Movies, Music, And The Continuing Actors Struggle
* Miguel Gardel reads from his short story, "Blues In America"
* Peter Wise discourses on the 9 minute Nietzsche
* Garland Nixon on Trainwreck America

Arts Express 10-18-23 Featuring Actor Henry Thomas

* Henry Thomas talks his films and series from ET to Fall of the House of Usher* Luke O'Neil's short story "Thy Kingdom Come" from A Creature Wanting Form* The Stones And Brian Jones: Deciphering the Nick Broomfield doc* Garland Nixon on the so-called "rules-based"  order

Arts Express 10-11-23 Featuring Actor Diallo RIddle

* Diallo Riddle Talks One Song, The Hollywood Strikes, And What Exactly Is A Moonlighting DJ* Ian Scott: American Politics In Hollywood Film* Mary Murphy reads selections from the poetry of Mary Oliver* Peter WIse: 9 minute Nietzcheand Garland Nixon

Arts Express 10-4-23 Featuring Actress Siobhan Fallon

* A Tale of Two Prison Dramas: Actress Siobhan Fallon in Shelter in Solitude and Eileen* Brett Gregory deconstructs Norman Finkelstein's new book* Singer/songwriter Nellie McKay talks about Hey Guys, Watch This* Peter Wise on The 9 minute Nietzsche

Arts Express 9-26-23 Featuring Comedian/Author Madison Molloy

* Madison Molloy on "Comedy in a woke world," as a woman speaking her mind* Blue collar wordsmith Miguel Gardel reads his short story, "Religious"* Peter Wise's gallery tour of the artist and the renegade * Garland Nixon on US foreign policy hypocrisy

Arts Express 9-20-23 Featuring Actor/Comedian Michael Rapaport

* Michael Rapaport talks DeNiro, Walken, strikes, and stand-up comedy
* Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World's Economy
* Brett Gregory on the Drive In: Outdoor Cinema In 1950s America
* Mitchel Cohen's anti-war memory lane excursion