Heart of the East End

Vinny Timmons joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM amid Fire Prevention Month to talk about his mission to educate the next generation of first responders in America.

Father-son film director duo Eric and Nick Weber of Tenafly Film Co. join Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM ahead of Oct. 9 world premiere for their film, Not Dead Yet, as part of Hamptons International Film Festival. WLIW-FM’s own Ed German of Urban Jazz Experience and Friday Night Soul is one of the principal actors alongside Richard Kind, Paul Raci, Polly Draper, Tovah Feldshuh, Toby Huss, Seth Herzog, Bill Smitrovich and Nick Weber.

Charlie Marder of Marder’s Design & Landscaping in Bridgehampton joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM shortly after hosting the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Refuge and Rescue Center’s annual gala, during which he and wife, Kathleen, received Get Wild! Award.

Mindy Misener joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM to discuss “Good Guys” ahead of debut novel Oct. 13 release and 6:30 p.m. launch event at Possible Futures in New Haven.

Award-winning author and poet, Alissa Quart, joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM during Banned Books Week to discuss iconic late local journalist, Barbara Ehrenreich, and collaborative creation of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project amidst 25th anniversary of Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, which the New York Times named one of 100 best books in the 21st century.

Sandra Lazar of Haircutters of Love Lane joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM to talk 25 years of running a business from Mattituck’s iconic business enclave.

Brianna Coccia joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM to talk Spiderwoman Theater, an indigenous women’s theater company based in Brooklyn ahead of the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival at LA MAMA Experimental Theatre Club starting Oct. 30 and running through to the culminating Nov. 7 gala celebrating 50 years of Spiderwoman Theater.

Later in the show, Hamptons International Film Festival’s Executive Director, Bob Feinberg, calls into the program ahead of HIFF’s Oct. 2 opening night at East Hampton Middle School where the first of three “I Am Rocky” screenings will kick-off the festival with the screening and Long Island’s Anthony Ippolito receiving the Flyte Breakthrough Performer Award

Dr. Scott Bonn joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM ahead of the criminologist’s live theatrical event at The Paramount theater at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 14

Linda Sweeney of Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital and Yvonne Lieblein of Hinckley Port of Egypt join Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM ahead of the 2026 Fall Fishing Showdown & Lobster Bash Oct. 9-10 in support of ELIH at Hinckley Port of Egypt.

Beth Young joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM to talk about the October issue of the monthly East End Beacon broadsheet newspaper.