All Of It with Alison Stewart

A new minor league baseball team is coming to Staten Island, and the owners are asking for help to pick the new team’s name. We’ll take calls with listeners' suggestions, and their Staten Island pride. Curbed reporter Joe DeLessio joins to talk about what makes a name quintessentially Staten Island. 

Adam Moscowitz, the founder of The Cheesemonger Invitational, which brings together cheese mongers and cheese fans from all over the country, joins us to talk about the all you can eat event. 

The Cheesemonger Invitational NYC is today, October 1, at 4:30 PM, at the Brooklyn Expo Center.

Shad is a Juno Award-winning rapper who has made the Polaris shortlist multiple times and hosts the Netflix docuseries, “Hip-Hop Evolution.” His new album, "TAO," takes on a variety of themes including spirituality, racism, and capitalism. He joins us for a release day Listening Party.

Hosts of the Wirecutter series “The Kitchen Report,” Lesley Stockton and Michael Sullivan return to continue the discussion about the current must-have gadgets for any kitchen, some of their old favorites, and they’ll take listener calls.

Brooklyn BagelFest allows attendees to sample from bagel purveyors such as Ess-a-Bagel, Bantam Bagels, and Tompkins Square Bagels. Founder Sam Silverman joins us to preview the October 2 event and take calls from listeners on their own favorite bagel joints.

WNYC’s Jennifer Vanasco, who covers arts and culture, joins us to discuss what to do this weekend in her ongoing series, “The Get Out.”

Artist Adam Pendleton joins us to discuss his solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?, which is on view from now through January 30. The large-scale installation features Pendleton’s paintings, drawings, and other works that explore complex themes around identity through use of a wide range of materials and sources.

Founded in 2001, Daptone Records helped spur a modern soul revival with releases from artists like Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley. On October 1, in celebration of its 20th anniversary, the independent Brooklyn-based record label will release "The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live at the Apollo," a 3LP set and a 48-page booklet of photography. Daptone founders Gabriel Roth and Neal Sugarman join us to discuss.

For the first time in 17 years, Rolling Stone threw out their working list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and rebuilt the list from scratch. Rolling Stone reporter Jon Dolan joins us to discuss remaking the list, defend the rankings, and take calls from listeners on what they think are the greatest songs of all time.

Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry and former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress and the State of Virginia, joins us to discuss her newest collection of poems, Playlist for the Apocalypse.