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Welcome to This Day In Christmas Shopping History as your host Allan Appel and co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum travel back to when all the action was not at the tree on the Green, but at Toyland and Toyville and the great displays put on by Malley's, Shartenberg's, and the fabled and long gone department stores of mid-20th century Chapel Street, the epicenter for gift-buying in the Elm City.

Hide that wreath! Don't give that present! And for God's sake go to work and don't make merry. Such pagan and "Pope-ish" thngs were frowned upon and legislated against by our Puritan forbears in ye olde New Haven. Why, Christmas is not mentioned anywhere in Scripture, so why celebrate it? Such now Scroogie insights emerged in the first of our holiday week of broadcasts with your host Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum on This Day In New Haven History.

Have you seen Joel Rudikoff/Wally Pipp? The show's former co-host once again missed-out on a big football show. Vinnie and Adam talked about the NFL's playoff picture. The guys were joined by former West Virginia University great, Joe DeLong to discuss the college football playoffs. If you see Joel, it is ok to approach him and please return him to WNHH.

On this episode, host Tagan Engel talks to Junzi Kitchen Chef Lucas Sin and Marketing Director Reed Immer about the restaurant's sleek assembly-line model, Northern Chinese cuisine, expansion to New York City, and relatively new night lunch series.

Night lunch is an innovative event Friday and Saturdays from 10:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. with booming music, a constantly changing menu designed by both the head chef and line cooks, many of whom had little to no culinary experience before working at Junzi. It’s a rare opportunity for entry level line cooks to learn menu development, sourcing, pricing, prep planning, and meal execution to the public; skills most cooks don’t learn until many years in the business.

On this episode, host Babz Rawls-Ivy Talks to Cheryl Doss, senior departmental lecturer in Development Economics at Oxford University, about the Gender Asset Gap Project, a large-scale effort to collect data and measure individual asset and wealth holdings for men and women in Ecuador, Ghana, and Karnataka, India, and how to give women all over the world economic and practical survival skills.

Babz Rawls-Ivy, Joe Ugly, and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes speak out on the latest black-Latino tensions stemming from the police department, the ethics of giving money to panhandlers, and the great Russian hacking conspiracy.

On this episode, host Alisa Bowens Mercado talks about getting in the Christmas spirit with WNHH producer Harry Droz and Marketing Rep, Corrine Estena Abraha about how to submit artist tapes and auditions to CT Fashion Week.

In the spirit of being as prepared as possible for the Best Movies of 2016 show at the end of the year, host Tom Breen and Lyric Hall’s Joe Fay shine a light on a few smaller, critically-acclaimed movies that may have slipped under your radar when they came out in limited release earlier in the year. Jeremy Saulnier’s GREEN ROOM and Trey Edward Shults’ KRISHA are two low-budget, independent dramas that know how to make the most of confined spaces, unexpected violence, and the absurdity (funny, sad, inspiring, and devastating) of the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and how we act in extreme situations. For the second segment of the show, Breen and Lucy Gellman review Tom Ford's new movie, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS.

Host Melissa Loucks talks to award-winning author and professor Jennifer Boylan, the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia, about her work in both literature and advocacy as the national co-chair of the Board of Directors of GLAAD, the media advocacy group for LGBT people worldwide.

Former New Haven Chief John Velleca weighs in on the racial controversy in town involving the search for the next police chief and the one-day suspension of an assistant chief; on politics and policing; and on the introduction of body cams.