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Today on "Alisa's Culture Cocktail" host Alisa Bowens-Mercado and regular guest Irving Pinsky tackle both local & national topics.

Today on "The Show" host Michelle Turner talks with Andy Orfice, Program Coordinator, Community & Government Relations Gina Smith, Community Health Improvement Co-ordinator Both are from: YALE-NEW HAVEN HEALTH

'Shout Out to Keisha Smalls'

On the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen talks with New Haven Review publisher Bennett-Lovett Graff all about movie adaptations of works of literature: what makes for a good movie adaptation of a novel, short story, or play? What are some of the challenges and benefits of making that transition from printed page to screen? What are a few examples of our favorite literary adaptations? This conversation focuses in particular on one such literary adaptation, The Dead, a 1987 film directed by John Huston and adapted from the 1914 short story by James Joyce.

On the second segment of the show, Breen is joined by Connecticut-based poet and teacher Kate Rushin to talk about A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies’ new biopic about 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson. Although not a direct adaptation of any particular written work, A Quiet Passion offers another perspective on representing literature through movies in the way that it closely interweaves Dickinson’s poetry with her life, underscoring her preoccupations with fame, truth, beauty, and death.

WNNH's resident law enforcement expert comes out in support of a state police accountability bill, surveys the challenges facing New haven's new chief, and weighs in on Washington's current criminal justice controversies.

When Daniel's twin brother, Joel, and Joel's wife, Ilana, are killed in a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem, Daniel and his partner, Matt, fly to Israel to assume custody of the couple's children, 6-year-old Gal and 1-year-old Noam. "I'm in a foreign country where I don't speak the language!" Matt wants to cry out when they land, and it's true -- for him, for Daniel, for Gal, for Noam -- in even more ways than he knows. How do you find your way across the uncharted territory of parenting; where is there a map to help you get from anger to forgiveness; are there lessons to learn the language of grief? Simultaneously dealing with the particularities of the Israeli/Palestinian political situation and of what it means to be a gay couple in today's world, this novel is also about the universalities of love and family: the way they tear us apart and the way they are also the only things that keep us together.

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Judith Frank about where this book started for her ("It was [always] going to begin with a terrorist attack and end with the day that gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts. I had a hunch that they might have something to say to each other"); writing from a child's point of view ("I knew I was going to be using my full vocabulary to be describing her thoughts"); and why she thought a book about gay men was more likely to sell than a book about lesbians ("It's just sexism. Men still count as universal human subjects [but] lesbians . . . can't stand for larger humanity the way that men can, and the way that men always have").

Today on "Mornings with Mubarakah" host Mubarakah Ibrahim has a conversation with Dr. Dianne Schindler about policing women's bodies, Islamophobia, and muslim women advocacy.

New Haven Republican Town Committee leaders Jonathan Wharton and Tyler Kuhn discuss plans to field candidates in municipal elections this year and and the local party's emerging agenda.

Today on "The Legal Eagle" host Marcia Chambers talks about Tesla Motors and the rally held in Hartford Ct. Tesla is looking to sell their electric cars directly to consumers.

Marcus Paca talks about why he's seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor.

Today on "The Tom Ficklin Show" host Tom Ficklin has a conversation with Antoinette Brim about her books, poetry, and the Creative Arts Workshop.

To learn more about Antoinette Brim, and her books visit https://www.antoinettebrim.com

To get more information about Creative Arts Workshop visit http://creativeartsworkshop.org