Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper

Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper

By Tamsen Granger and Dan AbuhoffSociety & Culture
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Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper episodes

  • Episode 424: Tennis Anyone?

    Dan reminisces about the glories of raking Hard Tru. Where's the chocolate?  The price of tickets.  Green Wood Cemetery welcomes Visitors. How to afford a house in California (you'll need an ADU).  Prehistoric Dice.  Icelandic Hot Dogs.  Eleanor Abbott and Candy Land.  Gainsborough at the Frick.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    43 min
  • Episode 423: Zoubi!

    Tamsen's new favorite basketball player/story.  Also Hatshepsut: Tamsen's favorite female pharaoh.  Plus Max Scherzer: Tamsen's new favorite MLB rehab story.  And Bojangle's: Tamsen's favorite fast food biscuit sandwich.  Not to mention Raphael...well, you get the picture...

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    46 min
  • Episode 422: Wake Up Sleepy Owl

    The many contributions of Bell Labs.  Coders wrangle their AI Agents.  Artists, their estates, and their estranged families.  Hyrox.  Angelika Saleh.  Alan Trustman. An Owl wakes up in a Gift Shop...

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    45 min
  • Episode 421: Stained Glass And Friendly Taverns

    Beautiful window to see at the Met!  Hanging out at the local tavern.  Puttin' on the Shvitz!  Updating the American Girl Doll. Bloomies is Back.  How about Jordan Stolz on a bike? Say good bye to Mr. Clean.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    49 min
  • Episode 420: Olympic Fever

    Watching the Winter Olympics.  The end of Mass Market Paperbacks.  House Burping.  Rough Times for Female Tortoises in Macedonia.  Jo Ann Bass and Joe's Stone Crab.  Freedom House Ambulance Service. Football by Chuck Klosterman.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    46 min
  • Episode 419: One Meal After Another

    Hunkered down but getting out anyway.  High Spirits in NYC.  The Testament of Ann Lee at the movie theater.  One Battle After Another on the small screen.  More Inspiration from Kpop Demon Hunters.  Mourning the demise of the Department Store.  Metrocard Artists losing their supply.  Ellen Hughes: more than your average hockey mom.  New Restaurant models - loving The Dutchess (Ojai!). Amor Towles - stepping into the Jazz Age via Cole Porter and Ella (Fitzgerald).

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    55 min
  • Episode 418: A Very Snowy Day

    We're having a REAL WINTER.  Hunkered down watching movies and reading the newspaper.  Lots to think about:  Kpop Demon Hunters bringing Korean culture to the world.  A World in the Making: The Shakers (exhibition) and The Testament of Ann Lee (movie).  A big book about Bennett Cerf by Gayle Feldman.  Wilbur Wood.  John Brody.  How Green Was My Valley. Songs by Sondheim.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    45 min
  • Episode 417: Beans and More

    Rancho Gordo.  Yum.  Fun in NYC.  The Plague. Discovering Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible. Making Oboes.  The New Princeton University Art Museum.  Give Well.  

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    43 min
  • Episode 416: Welcome 2026!

    Summing up the Holidays. Merchants of Joy, Xmas tree sellers documentary.  Marty Supreme. World's Largest Apron Museum.  Phyllis Lee Levin. Redwing Boots.  Remembering Annette, the last of the Dionne Quintuplets.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    48 min
  • Episode 415: Where are the Snails?

    Another shocking French Heist.  Remembering Mel Leipzig. Colds at night.  Mary Ann Patten: first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.  Pizza business ups and downs.  Stewart Brand and The Maintenance of Everything.  The Family Bond of the NY Giants.  Self Driving Cars.

    Credits:

    Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

    Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

    Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

    46 min

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