Arts Express

** About Him & Her: A Conversation With Callan McAuliffe. Playing a troubled Chicago artist who falls in love virtually, before the digital age. 

** Paintings In Movies from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of A Lady On Fire

** Two May birthday music legends jam

* Novelist Dennis Lehane talks Small Miracles, the writers strike, and adapting his novels to film

* Bro on "Series TV After the Deluge:" Bank failures, budgets and the new conservatism in programming

* Same Propaganda, Different Day--The Case of Red Dawn

* Jon Voight talks Mercy and Coppola's Megalopolis, and his new doc about Midnight Cowboy

* Garland Nixon on Corporate Media Watch

* How Hollywood Sells Us War - Hollywood's Crucial Role In The Military Industrial Complex

* Leslie Uggams talks Dottie & Soul in a conversation about defying race and class in her latest film

* Julian Assange's Letter to Charles

* Dennis Broe on the Hollywood Writers Strike

* Garland Nixon's Corporate Media Watch

* Actress Famke Janssen Talks Knights Of The Zodiac--and how she is drawn to take-charge female film roles 

* Caitlin Johnstone with a real Mothers Day poem

* Dennis Broe converses with historian Gerald Horne about neo-colonialism

* Empire Hollywood: The Pentagon Calls the Shots

* Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Byways, Blade Runner, and his photography 

* "Red Iowa:" Peter Wise tells tales of the "Global Trotsky"

* Dirty Work-- prisons, slaughterhouses and drones operators as the hidden dirty work that is essential to capitalism

* "The New McCarthyism Censorship," with Garland Nixon

* Actor Yul Vazquez Talks White House Plumbers and Godfather Of Harlem

* The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems and Snippets from Political activist and poet, Mitchel Cohen, Part 2

* 32 Sounds: Filmmaker Sam Green on his immersive new documentary on the power of sound

* Garland Nixon commentary on those who push our buttons

** Comedian W. Kamau Bell Talks Growing Up Mixed: Taking up race as no laughing matter

** Red Iowa: Artists Peter Wise and Cecile Houel talk art & politics

** Jack & Rick with Bob & Ray homage episode #2

** Garland Nixon on US Empire, Crime Scenes Edition

** Chaos Of Color: A Conversation With Uriah Heep guitarist, Mick Box.

** Caitlin Johnstone on NPR and its wild biases, greasing the wheels of the US empire.

** Garland Nixon on "Why I oppose imperialism."

** The Statue of David --Controversy, Now And Then