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Kate Braunstein and Hiral Patel lead this one hour special, looking at how the #MeToo movement might affect Oscars 2018, the Hollywood industry and bringing it back to our own MSU campus where students share their stories of sexual harassment and assault and how they have been affected by them.

Host Joe Amditis is joined by Research Director Sarah Stonbely to discuss the "digital divide" and "digital deserts" in less affluent neighborhoods of NJ and Buffalo, NY.

The show also takes a deep dive into Corporate Tax Breaks in NJ, lack of oversight and Tom Bracken's woe is me op-ed on NJ Spotlight.

Amy Adrion is a director and writer whose work has screened at the Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and Los Angeles Film Festivals, broadcast on PBS and MTV, and won numerous awards including a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Student Film Award and the Impact Award at the Sarasota Film Festival / Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival.

HALF THE PICTURE, Adrion’s debut feature, had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. It celebrates the ground-breaking work of women film and TV directors. HALF THE PICTURE won the #WhatNext Award at the Sundance Film Festival: London, the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Lighthouse Film Festival and was nominated for the Chicken & Egg Award at the SXSW Film Festival.

Adrion is a graduate of the MFA Film Directing program at UCLA, with an under-graduate degree in Literature and Theology from Georgetown University. She grew up in Hillsdale, New Jersey and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Engineer: Chris Sopko

Hosts: Chris Sopko, Molly Jenkins and Nico Cimino

Dan O'Meara is VP of Documentary and Special Projects at NEON. The company's releases include I, TONYA and the upcoming THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS. Previously he consulted at RADiUS on their documentary releases including FED UP, THE HUNTING GROUND and ACADEMY. Dan's producing credits include BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA, FREAKONOMICS, and PRINT THE LEGEND.

Engineer: Chris Sopko

Hosts: Chris Sopko, Molly Jenkins and Nico Cimino

Nathan Silver graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. Since then, the filmmaker has written and directed four short films and seven features: THE BLIND (2009), EXIT ELENA (2012), SOFT IN THE HEAD (2013), UNCERTAIN TERMS (2014), STINKING HEAVEN (2015), ACTOR MARTINEZ (2016, co-directed with Mike Ott), and THIRST STREET (2017). His films have played festivals and venues around the world, including New York Film Festival, Venice, Tribeca, Mar del Plata, AFI, Locarno, Rotterdam, Viennale, MoMA and the Cineteca Nacional, Mexico. The New Yorker recently called Silver "a modernistic master of melodrama," and the New York Times did a profile on him.

In honor of the 200th Anniversary Mary Shelley’s book FRANKENSTEIN, we have invited Sara Karloff, the only child of Boris Karloff, to talk about her father who starred in the films FRANKENSTEIN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and SON OF FRANKENSTEIN.

Leah Yananton is a filmmaker, writer, actor, and performance artist based in Los Angeles. Yananton appeared regularly at The Groundlings Theatre in the Catmilk Show under the direction of founder Gary Austin. She is a member of Rob Watzke’s SHPLOTZ! improvisational theater company, with weekly performances featuring special guests such as Helen Slater, Helen Hunt, and Jason Alexander.

Yananton’s professional film experience began in the camera department on Spike Lee’s Bamboozled and Marc Levin’s & Mark Benjamin's Brooklyn Babylon. She went on to travel the globe working on documentaries for HBO, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel.

She received her B.F.A. from Columbia University where she received the Stephen Ades award for Creative Writing as well as a scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, to study Mandarin Chinese. While studying in Taipei, she wrote and directed her first bilingual short film Baozhi / The Newspaper. Returning to New York, Yananton co-wrote and directed “The Naked Show,” the full-length off-off Broadway political satire about college activism and mainstream media in the wake of 9-11 and the start of the Iraq War.

She studied directing under Columbia School of the Arts dramaturgy professor Lenore DeKoven as part of Our Workshop East. After completing the two-year Meisner acting conservatory program under James Brill at The Neighborhood Playhouse, Yananton wrote, directed and acted in the surreal short film, THE BURIAL (15 min) an Official Selection at the L.A. Shorts Fest, and appeared in Steven Spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS.

Yananton was commissioned to direct the documentary MANHATTANVILLE: A NEIGHBORHOOD UNDER SIEGE (32 min) which chronicled Columbia University’s controversial expansion into her West Harlem neighborhood. MANHATTANVILLE screened at the Harlem Film Festival, Girl Fest Hawaii, and L.A. Shorts Fest, and continues to be screened by the Columbia community and West Harlem neighborhood to facilitate dialogue.

Yananton performed LANDESCAPES, a performance art video installation commissioned by the cWOW Gallery in Newark. Leah is also developing an environmental justice documentary IN OUR BACKYARD, about the municipal polluting of an African American community in Athens, GA. Her next narrative feature deals with the problem of commercial exploitation of sexuality among the LGBTQ community in West Hollywood, and is currently in development.

Dr. Penney joins Dr. Greenwood to talk about the informality and frivolity of social media supplanting more serious conversations in policy.

C+MRC: A Rhetorical Examination of Marco Rubio's Discourse of Capture by 90.3 WMSC FM

This week on Commuter Corner: Rocky will be giving away free coffee and tea coupons; the last Commuter Happy Hour of the semester; Wednesday is Friday this week; miniature horses and winter driving preparedness.