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Babz Rawls-Ivy interviews her daughter, Margeaux Ivy, about balancing school, church, family and social life in New Haven, as she follows her passions for the arts.

On this episode, host Alisa Bowens takes on makeup, and the question she's been asking: to wear, or not to wear?

On today’s episode, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel talk about two new movies with opposing, yet related, conceptions of American heroism. Clint Eastwood’s SULLY and Antoine Fuqua’s THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN are both fascinated with stubborn, courageous American men who are masters of their craft and confident in their expertise, no matter how much skepticism or vitriol they must endure for the sometimes unorthodox nature of their practice.

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Mayor Toni Harp checks in on schools, fire, police and other hot-button issues in town.

Connecticut's top lawyer discussed the millions he's bringing in to the state in class-action suit settlements as well as his decision to appeal a judge's landmark decision on the state's system for funding and operating the schools.

It could be said there are two small US cities that have an extreme affinity for Modernist architecture. What are they? Design Czar Duo Dickinson reports.

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Jade Chang about what was interesting about writing a book set during the Great Recession ("When you're in a time of upheaval, it's also a time when anything can happen"), the ways her novel rebels against the traditional immigrant narrative ("I really wanted to write about immigrants who see themselves as absolutely central to their own story and to the story of this country"), and why fictional mothers are always dead.

Guest readers Brian Eng and Jennifer Eng join Oppenheimer to discuss art and artifice, success and failure, and the relationship between being seen and being known.

Welcome to This Day in John Davenport History — not the restaurant atop the Omni, but the co-founder of New Haven. Your host Allan Appel and fellow time-traveler Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum look into the biography of the stern pastor who back in 1638 helped found the theocratic paradise on earth on whose foundations we continue to live today. Turns out JD was a theological hard case long before leaving England.

Welcome to This Day in Cigar Dispensing History as your host Allan Appel and fellow time traveler Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum travel back to the heyday of the tobacco industry in Connecticut and how an amazing "cigar slot machine," that is, a vending machine might be counted as a new New Haven entrepreneurial first.

Welcome to This Day in Disease Prevention History as your host Allan Appel and co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle from the New Haven Museum travel back to 1908 when medical authorities were proud of new measures to control tuberculosis. Yet were Elm City public health officials ignoring another killer, pneumonia, which just last year had killed nearly 12,000 people in neighboring New York.