Jearlyn Steele

This week, Jearlyn welcomes the following guests to Center Stage:

Crooners Supper Club owner Mary Tjosvold

Singer/musician Cyrille Aimée

Actor/director/choreographer Austene Van

Plus, Star Tribune lead theatre critic Rohan Preston brings up two pieces of breaking news regarding Sunday night's Oscars and an announcement from a current "Saturday Night Live" cast member.

Jearlyn kicks off this truncated show by offering her opinions on this week's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.  Then, what can women do to set themselves and their families up for financial comfort?  Stone Arch Law estate planning attorney Philip J. Ruce joins the program to talk about that.

We've heard about the new initiatives social media companies are taking to help protect children.  Will they work?  Agency Partner Interactive co-founder Adam Rizzieri explains whether this push is coming up short of what's needed.

We hear about negative news coming from North Minneapolis.  But what about more positive stories?  Ascension Catholic School is one of the brighter stories from the neighborhood.  Principal Benito Matias tells us why the grade school is having such a high success rate.

It has been one year since the murders of several Asian women in multiple Atlanta spas.  Have conditions for Asian-Americans gotten any better over the last 12 months?  Marian Chia-Ming Liu, Operations Editor for the Washington Post, provides perspective through her life and reporting.