Madame Perry's Salon

The Oklahoma Teachers Walkout brought the nation's focus on the dire lack of educational funding and government support on The Sooner State as well as others across the US. The walkout ended but what has really changed and what do educators, parents and students expect to happen or not happen now?  Joining me tonight will be teachers, parents, and others involved in and affected by the situation. Callers are welcome as long as the discussion remains civil. Studio # is 646-716-9922. 

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

Musician Joey Huffman Visits Madame Perry's Salon ou've seen and heard and grooved to Joey Huffman's music more than you know. Huffman is the sideman secret weapon for Hank Williams, Jr., Keith Richards, Izzy Stradlin, Mick Jagger, Miranda Lambert, Iggy Pop, Cee-Lo Green, Matchbox Twenty, Bowling For Soup, and many more

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

MST3K Writer & Cineprov RifferLarry Johnson has been running Atlanta's very own movie riffing show, Cineprov since 2005

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

Creating Soundtracks For Cinema Vince Bryant visits Madame Perry's Salon Musican Vincent Levy Bryant's career was launched in 70s NYC as a popular session player for the legendary A&R studios and working with the SNL band. After moving to Atlanta Bryant, who is also known to players as VLEEV, combined his skills with his love of the exhilarating process of creating music for live theater, television, and film. He joins us tonight to discuss the process and advise musicians who are interested in the field. 

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

San Francisco-based indie rock songwriter, musician, journalist, author, and Canadian TV personality. Myers' first book was band biography Barenaked Ladies: Public Stunts Private Stories in 2001, followed in 2007 by It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry And The Birth Of The British Blues. Vancouver filmaker Nick Orchard recruited Myers to to write the script and appear in his documentary Long John Baldry: In The Shadow Of The Blues. for which Myers was nominated for a Gemini Award (the Canadian Emmy) for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series. His most recent book, A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio, is a detailed history of the record production career of Philadelphia-born guitarist and producer and featured interviews with Rundgren and many of his production clients, including Patti Smith, XTC, Meat Loaf, New York Dolls, Cheap Trick, Psychedelic Furs, Grand Funk, and Hall & Oates. The book was critically acclaimed and received four star reviews from the British magazines MOJO and Record Collector.

Musician and political activist Ray Dafrico joins us.

Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

Milton Davis is one of the superstars of the afro-futurism genre. Milton is the author of eight novels; his most recent The Woman of the Woods and Amber and the Hidden City. He is co-editor of four anthologies; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and Griot: Sisters of the Spear, with Charles R. Saunders; The Ki Khanga Anthology with Balogun Ojetade and the Steamfunk! Anthology, also with Balogun Ojetade.

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

Running the Gauntlet-An Intimate History of the Modern Body Piercing Industry tells the story of how the author fathered the modern body piercing industry and in so doing gave birth to the larger body piercing movement. Jim Ward, with backing from Doug Malloy, started Gauntlet back in 1975 in Los Angeles. At the time, it was the first body piercing studio not only in the U.S., but in the world. With Gauntlet, Jim went from a small, one-man jewelry manufacturer out of the back of a small retail space to a significant industry wholesaler. (My first jewelry and supplies were purchased from Gauntlet, in 1989.) Gauntlet’s retail operations expanded from one shop in Los Angeles to studios in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, and a even a franchise in Paris. In 1977, with the input of Doug and Fakir Musafar, Jim started Piercing Fans International Quarterly (PFIQ), the first (and highly influential) publication dedicated to body piercing. Jim is also personally responsible for developing many of the tools, techniques, and jewelry designs that are still in use today.

Hillbilly Hellraisers Author Blake Perkins Visits Mme Perry's Salon . Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century.He uncovers the reasons local disputes and uneven access to government power fostered markedly different reactions by hill people as time went by. Resistance in the earlier period sprang from upland small farmers' conflicts with capitalist elites who held the local levers of federal power. But as industry and agribusiness displaced family farms after World War II, a conservative cohort of town business elites, local political officials, and midwestern immigrants arose from the region's new low-wage, union-averse economy. As Perkins argues, this modern antigovernment conservatism bore little resemblance to the backcountry populism of an earlier age but had much in common with the movement elsewhere. 

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

Gun Violence In American Schools - Is There A Solution? The heartbreaking and senseless slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 took seventeen lives, sent fourteen people to the hospital, and ignited a vocal, informed high school students to take on a job in which they felt adults had failed them. That is, making the legislators and all members of the United States government take responsibility for student safety, and to value the lives of students and teachers more highly than the hefty sponsorships and campaign contributions of the National Rifle Association.

Joining me are former CNN Investigative journalist and 2X Emmy winner, who develops docs and breaks stories on www.artharris.com and FaceBook, and contributer to Nancy Grace crime online on Sirius XM Art Harris, along with Ret.US Navy Weapons Control Officer, suspense author, and teacher Bret R. Wright. 

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.

Travis I. Sivart is a prolific author of science fiction and fantasy as well as the host of the popular podcast Talk Of The Tavern. Travis I. Sivart writes Steampunk, Social DIY, Science Fiction, Medieval Fantasy, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction, Horror, and more in the forms of poetry, short stories in more than a dozen anthologies, full length novels, as well as editorials on manners, pipe smoking, and medieval re-enactment. He began writing in his early teens and his creativity flourished with the help of fantasy role-playing games. 

Travis's writing style has been described as true storytelling, with the feel of sitting next to a fireplace and listening to a tale from a favorite uncle. His writing style has been described as a blend of Stephen King's character development, George RR Martin's world building, and Mark Twain's wit.

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Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon is composed and performed by Denton Perry.