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On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen welcomes experimental animators and filmmakers Frank and Caroline Mouris and film archivist Brian Meacham to the show to talk about the Mouris' careers making movies, some reflections on the mesmerizing world of experimental animation, and upcoming screenings of their films at the Whitney Humanities center. For the second segment of the show, Breen, Allan Appel, and Lucy Gellman review the new movie The Handmaiden.

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City culture czar Andy Wolf and Yale-China Association chief David Youtz discuss their recent trip to Changsha, scheduled to become New Haven's eighth sister city.

It’s 1968 in upstate New York. Jon is sixteen and a runner. He’s running from the brother who died, from the mother who hates him for surviving, from the father who stays quiet. He’s running from small-town Brewster, the kind of place that feels like it will hold you down and keep you there, the kind of place that won’t ever let you escape for something better. Ray is seventeen and a fighter. He’s bloody, he’s damaged, and he hates Brewster too. “Of course it wasn’t really about Brewster,” Jon tells us, looking back. “Brewster just made it easy to pretend it was.” What follows is the story of their friendship - of their efforts to save each other, and all the ways they fail.

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Mark Slouka about story and memory, truth and fiction, and the inherent tension between Slouka's sense of tragedy and his desire for redemption. Guest readers Sam Purdy and Jessica Sager join Oppenheimer to discuss brothers and fathers, power and pain, and what it means to run the race we run.

Greg Grinberg of New Haven talks about two world-changing projects he's spearheading: to change how we grocery-shop and eat (through a company called AcutalFood.com) and how we vote (through a site called RankedChoiceVote.com).

On this episode, host Mubarakah Ibrahim speaks about her visit to the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and why people should go.

Host Marcia Chambers talks to lawyer and Branford resident Ed Marcus about the upcoming presidential election, and what voters will do differently -- if anything -- after FBI Director James Comey's October surprise.

The school systems's Will Clark and Sue Peters describe the work of the city's growing network of school-based health clinics. (Today's episode of "Dateline New Haven" was made possible in part thanks to support from Yale-New Haven Hospital.)

On this episode, host Michelle Turner talks to New Havener Latisha Gardner about her constant battle with Scleroderma, a chronic connective tissue disease classified as one of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Gardner is currently running a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for her treatment at Yale New Haven Hospital, where a team of doctors is working to address the lung disease, esophageal and gastrointestinal complications, and physical pain that have accompanied the original diagnosis.

Welcome to This Day In Medical Care History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle time-travel back to 1834 when an upstart herbalist and natural cures-based physician established an infirmary in the Hill. He challenged the academic docs to start healing the sick, not making them worse with their blood-letting and their "poisons."

Welcome to This Day in Tool-Making History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven time travel back to 1834 when the New Haven Axe Factory went out of business because superior products were being produced upstate in Collinsville.