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The guys recapped the Super Bowl with NY Post Associate Sports Editor Dave Blezow and talked with Cousin Mitch about NY Knick-great Charles Oakley getting banned from Madison Square Garden.

On the eve of Valentine's Day, host Lucy Gellman talks to colleagues Tom Breen and Brian Slattery -- and reads comments from the community -- about why we make food for the people we love.

Pundits Babz Rawls-Ivy, Lucy Gellman, Joe Ugly, and Harry Droz dive into the controversy over last week's protest in New haven, a prposal to raise cigarette taxes by 45 cents, a stampeded out of a courtroom after a man with prayer beads started chanting, and whether bikes should be taxed.

Farmer, artist, activists sisters Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm and Naima Penniman of the performance duo Climbing PoeTree talk heart-led community building for social change.

Literary Happy Hour sat down with filmmaker-Ogechi Musa and wordsmith- Ishan Abdussabur to catch a glimpse into their creative process and what we have in store for our Literary Happy Hour Winter Edition this Saturday, February 11th- 4-6pm @ West River Arts 909 Whalley Ave in New Haven.

About Literary Happy Hour

Literary Happy Hour is a curated reading and performance series providing a platform for New Haven writers to present their work, build a local following, and form a supportive, collaborative writing community. This event unites the strongest writers from disconnected corners of the New Haven community--including creative writing students, open mic performers, and independent writers--with an emphasis on writers of color and other writers belonging to marginalized groups. Literary Happy Hour creates a radically inclusive performance space and creative community that gives rise to healing, liberation, deepening of self and genuine community building.

The theme for February's show is Love in the Time of Protest. How do we love, find love, sustain love, fall in love, self love, protect love, generate love in the time of protest?

Two poor girls from rural America somehow manage to find their way to a private East Coast college, and, from there, to each other. Mel, tough, aggressive, magnetic, knows she will be a cartoonist. Sharon, uncertain, unsure, insecure, knows only there are things she wants to make, but not yet how they will get made. The two become best friends and partners. A decade later, they are still at it: about to release an animated film about Mel's past which will bring them the acclaim they've been seeking. And that's just the first 25 pages. The Animators takes us in directions we don't expect it to go: from Brooklyn to Florida to Kentucky, from one painful past to another, from one great loss to a second even greater one. This is a book about whether the gifts we have define us or destroy us, about the powers and the perils of telling our own stories, about the way friendship can sustain us and sink us.

Today on "Mornings with Mubarakah" host Mubarakah Ibrahim touches on healthcare & fracking; subjects she was able to learn about at the Sister Giant Conference.

The guitar-strumming spiritual leader of Temple Emanuel sings some Debbie Friedman in advance of this Sunday's Debbie Friedman tribute concert at Tower One/Tower East, and discusses his youth in the former Soviet Union at a time of historic change.

Today on "Legal Eagle" host Marcia Chambers interviews Labor & Employment Attorney Bob Mitchell about the pending decision of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which is will soon be deciding on the Trump's travel ban executive order.

The Yale law professor and constitutional expert explains why, even though he opposes President Trump's orders on immigration, critics may not be correct in their constitutional objections.

This episode was made possible in part thanks to support from Yale-New Haven Hospital.