All Of It with Alison Stewart

This week sees the beginning of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College, a festival dedicated to spotlighting female filmmakers. Melissa Silverstein, co-founder and artistic director of AFF and founder of Women and Hollywood, joins us to give a preview of the festival lineup and additional programming. The festival runs in-person from March 11 to March 13 on the Barnard campus and virtually from March 11 to March 20.

The late Steve Post (1944-2014) was one of the most recognized radio voices in New York City. From broadcasting on WBAI, to later on our very own WNYC, Post was a consistent, humorous, and thoughtful entertainer whose voice was present throughout a turbulent time in the United States, whether it was the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, or the presidency Post's personal nemesis, Richard Nixon. The life and career of Steve Post is the subject of a new documentary, "Playing In The FM Band: The Steve Post Story." Director Rosemarie Reed joins us to discuss the film, which is premiering at the Film Forum on March 11.

While having a little extra daylight is lovely in the evenings, the first few days of Daylight Saving Time can be rough. Wirecutter's Deputy Editor Annemarie Conte joins to share her team's picks for the best products to help you get a good night's sleep.

We all have certain pop culture items — be it books, posters, or random knickknacks — that we hold onto dearly. But why do we keep objects that, as time passes, become less relevant or useful? What do our collections tell us about the passage of time and culture? And with a popular culture increasingly more online, what will younger generations hold onto? A.O. Scott, film critic for the New York Times, recently wrote about these questions and revealed his own collection of stuff in a piece called, "Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time." The article was inspired by a scene from the new film, "The Worst Person in the World." He joins us to talk about collecting and take your calls to hear what's on your shelf.

Actress Aunjanue Ellis, well known for her acting career on stage as well as critically acclaimed performances in HBO's recent series, "Lovecraft Country" and Netflix's "When They See Us," joins us to talk her first Oscar nomination. Ellis received a Best Supporting Actress nod this year for her performance as Oracene "Brandy" Price, mother to Venus and Serena Williams, in "King Richard," in which she starred opposite to Will Smith's Richard Williams.

Band Of Horses released their last album, Why Are You OK, over five years ago. Now they're back with an album whose title seems to answer, or ignore, its predecessor. Bandleader Ben Bridwell joins us for a Listening Party for the new album, Things Are Great.

Harold Simmons II, whose stage name is Fyütch, is a Bronx-based musician, social justice artist, and proud dad who combines hip-hop and storytelling to create music that educates and inspires the next generation of kids. Last summer, he released his first full-length family album, Family Tree, with songs about Black history he hopes to pass down to his own daughter. Fyütch joins us for a Listening Party for the family album.

New York Times theater critic Michael Paulson joins to preview the shows coming to Broadway this Spring and how the theater industry continues to deal with the pandemic.

A new book explores the social history of one of our most essential goods: clothing. In Worn: A People's History of Clothing, author Sofi Thanhauser looks at the story of clothing through five essential textiles: linen, cotton, silk, synthetics, and wool. Thanhauser uses this approach to investigate what clothing says about us, our world, and even our ethics. She joins us to discuss the book, how the clothing industry became what it is today, and what people are doing to break away from what has become one of the biggest polluting industries in history.

The 25th annual New York International Children’s Film Festival, one of the few Oscar-qualifying kid's film festivals, has just launched and continues over the next two weekends. Programming director Maria-Christina Villaseñor joins us with some of the highlights.