Theater Critic Michael Bourne reviews Straight White Men and Mike Birbiglia's The New One . Can you guess which one Michael doesn't get? Click above to hear his review.

Tributes continue to pour in from around the world following the death of legendary singer Aretha Franklin, who died in Detroit last Thursday at 76. The music and message of The Queen of Soul touched so many in the jazz and blues community; some of their voices are captured in this edition of the WBGO Journal. WBGO will rebroadcast our four-hour Aretha Franklin special on Friday, Aug. 24, from 8 p.m. to midnight. We'd also like to hear YOUR Aretha Franklin story. In the comments below, let us

The tributes continue to pour in from around the world following the death of legendary singer Aretha Franklin. The "Queen of Soul" died in Detroit Thursday at the age of 76. Franklin's music and message touched so many in the jazz and blues community. Click above to hear the Doug Doyle's tribute to Aretha Franklin.

Anthony Ferraro was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease at a very young age. His quest to be just another kid, led by his supportive family, set the stage for A Shot In The Dark , a new film documenting Anthony’s quest for a state championship. “Listen, I grew up blind and never let that stop me. I was denied to a school I was never able to go to. I used wrestling as an outlet to grow and learn things about myself,” Ferraro said. Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft is the school Anthony

Imagine a crowd of young women and girls riding through your Newark street, in style. I met the Girls on Bikes crew on a Newark First Friday. They had yellow bicycles, green bicycles, pink bicycles with the baskets in the front. They had helmets too tight for Afro-girls and almost right for the loose curls. They showed up ready to pedal their brown girl joy through the Newark streets all the way from Military to Weequahic Park. The girls had an extra bike just for me. And so we rode off into the

Leaders Create Leaders, a business leadership podcast, just concluded its four part live miniseries, at the Grammy museum in Newark. Podcast production house ABF Creative and Prudential Financial teamed up with the show's creator, Gerard Adams, for four special episodes of Leaders Create Leaders. “We all have that leader within us. We all can understand struggle, we all come from different stories, we all come from different backgrounds. So for me what’s really special about this podcast is the

"If music be the food of love, play on" is the opening line of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", and Theater Critic Michael Bourne loved what's playing on in Central Park.

A panel of economists and tax experts put together by the leader of the New Jersey Senate is recommending a variety of governmental changes to make the state more affordable. The task force is suggesting new state and local public employees be shifted from the current defined benefit pension plan to a 401k-type plan and that all government workers get a less-expensive health care plan. Among other proposed changes: merging school districts into regional systems that go from kindergarten to 12 th

Theater critic Michael Bourne was super impressed by Renee Taylor's memoir performance of My Life on a Diet now playing Off-Broadway. Click above to hear the review.

Illuminations: Short Films of Discovery is the latest work from Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno, the Emmy-nominated, award winning, husband and wife, social justice filmmakers from Newark. The Bongiornos this week preview four of their short fiction films at Cinema505 in Montclair. The four short fiction films ANGUISH , HEARING VOICES , GLASS WORKS and MOTHERLAND were all inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s acclaimed Illuminations poems. The Bongiornos came into the WBGO studios, while poet and NJIT