Host Michelle Turner talks with Amistad Committee members Michael A. Carter & Kai Perry about the upcoming event "What would Frederick Say?"

Rick Melita, a staffer with the Harp mayoral campaign, recorded a statement with former Marcus Paca campaign worker Priscilla Knox.

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Claire Messud about coming of age ("I was reminded of how central bafflement is to that experience"); her purposeful choice to leave so many questions unanswered ("the writers I love and admire the most write into the openness"); and how we tell stories to make sense of our world -- and yet in doing so, leave so many things out.

“It’s a different story depending on where you start," Julia, our narrator, tells us, "who’s good, who’s bad, what it all means. Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are. I can begin when Cassie and I were best friends; or I can begin when we weren’t anymore; or I can begin at the dark end and tell it all backward." Depending on where you start, this is the story of a friendship that unravels, or the story of what it is to move from girlhood into womanhood, or the story of what it means to try to save someone. And always, no matter where you start, it's the story of what it is to tell a story, the story of the power and the limits of narrative, the story of how stories can excuse us or condemn us or redeem us.

Hear the debate between Mayor Toni Harp and challenger Marcus Paca in advance of their Sept. 12 Democratic primary.

Host Marcia Chambers talks with Michael Koskoff. They discuss a movie that he and his son, Josh, wrote about Thurgood Marshall. The movie "Marshall" will be in theater's soon.

Kenn Harris of New Haven Healthy Start discusses two decades of addressing infant mortality, and an upcoming national conference in the city about the challenges ahead.

Babz Rawls-Ivy, Markeshia Ricks, Joe Ugly, Norma Rodriguez-Reyes and Harry Droz run down the latest political, environmentali, transit , and education news in town.

On this episode, host Lucy Gellman talks to musician Adam Matlock about his love for the accordion, nonlinear path to Klezmer music, and general refusal to use recipes.

Matlock is a teacher at Neighborhood Music School and musician in the New Haven community. To date, he has released three albums: Small Mercies, under the name An Historic; Solstice, under the name Nahadoth (ambient atmospheric synth), and Lungfiddle under his own name.

In today's episode, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven Review publisher Bennett Graff for a conversation about movie adaptations of graphic novels. In particular, they focus on AMERICAN SPLENDOR, a 2003 film from directors Shari Springer Brown and Robert Pulcini that brings to life Cleveland author Harvey Pekar’s decades-spanning autobiographical underground comic series of the same name.

Host Alisa Bowens-Mercado talks with Elinor Slomba director of Engagement and community outreach College Street Music Hall, Jen Diblanda from Amity Teen Center Battle of the Bands, and JR director of Make Haven.