All Of It with Alison Stewart

Performer, fashion designer and all around fabulous — Isaac Mizrahi returns "In Person" to his popular cabaret residency this month at the Carlyle Cafe. He'll be our guest to talk about the new season and what it's like being back in front of a live crowd. 

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Ever feel like you're missing a few basic skills in the kitchen, but aren't quite sure how to level up your home-chef game? A new cookbook will help you with just that. Chef Daniel Holzman, co-founder of The Meatball Shop, and food journalist Matt Rodbard have joined forces for a new cookbook titled FOOD IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts. They join us to discuss. 

To kick off Women's History Month, we celebrate women in jazz by speaking with Grammy-nominated saxophonist Melissa Aldana, whose Blue Note debut album, 12 Stars, comes out on March 4. Aldana, born in Chile and based in Brooklyn, comes from a family of Chilean saxophonists, including her grandfather, who was popular in the Santiago jazz scene in the 1950s. All this week Aldana is also playing her first headlining gig at the famous Village Vanguard, and she joins us for a Listening Party for the album. 

Need help writing a song? Mike Errico is here to help, with his new book Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter. Errico features tips and tricks along with interviews and advice from people like astrophysicist Janna Levin, renowned painter John Currin, and bestselling author George Saunders. He will also take calls from aspiring songwriters looking for help.

The 1990s are suddenly back in style... at least, when it comes to fashion and music. But how did that decade change American culture and politics forever? Author Chuck Klosterman joins us to discuss his latest book, The Nineties, which Kirkus calls "a multifaceted portrait that’s both fun and insightful."

The new film "After Yang" tells the story of a father (Colin Ferrell) reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter after his daughter's closest companion, an android named Yang, malfunctions. "After Yang" comes from South Korean director Kogonada, known for his previous film "Columbus," a similarly complicated, but heartfelt story, though not with the sci-fi twist. Kogonada also directed episodes of the upcoming "Pachinko" TV series adaptation of Min Jin Lee's critically acclaimed book of the same name. He joins us to discuss the film and his current projects.

James Beard Award-winning mixologist Dave Wondrich explores exotic spirits and cocktails around the globe, and discusses his comprehensive book, The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails. Plus, listeners call in to talk about their favorite libations.

Brooklyn's Nitehawk Shorts Festival begins this Thursday, featuring a slate of bite-sized films which this year are majority women-made. We’ll talk to two of the directors, Amber Shaefer and Kana Hatakeyama. Plus, the festival’s organizer, Cristina Cacioppo, tells us how she put the whole 5-day event together.

A new museum exhibition in Harlem explores African American contributions to our national culinary identity. African/American: Making the Nation’s Table, presented by the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), will run from February 23 to June 19, 2022 at The Africa Center at Aliko Dangote Hall. Curator and culinary historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris (Netflix's "High on the Hog," and recently one of Time's 100 most influential people) joins us to talk about the exhibition. 

[REBROADCAST FROM January 24, 2022] The film “CODA” tells the story of Ruby Rossi, the only hearing member of her Gloucester family. The rest of the Rossi family relies on Ruby as an interpreter and as a deckhand on her family's fishing boat, but all Ruby wants to do is sing. We speak with writer and director Sian Heder, and Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, who stars as Jackie Rossi in the film. “CODA” is available to stream now on Apple TV Plus.