You're A Shining Star

Our very own Roger Turner is doing a press circuit at the 2025 Blackstar Film Festival! This epic event was nothing short of amazing and impactful. Roger & Alexus sit down to discuss the highlights, the vibe, the experience, and yes! the films!!! You will not want to miss all the good dish on some of the most exciting Black, Brown & Indigenous content coming your way soon!

Pianist/composer Aruán Ortiz, classically trained in Cuba and influenced by jazz musicians from Chick Corea to Muhal Richard Abrams, narrates his journey over excerpts from his 2025 concert at Roulette pushing the boundaries of musical Afro-diasporic traditions and storytelling. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, we'll hear solos and ensemble works with clarinetist Don Byron, flutist Nicole Mitchell, and percussionist Mauricio Herrera alongside strings and vocalists. Photo by Michal Novak.

Love On Top (with André Holland)

We talk our favorite films about love and we interview the star of the new movie Love, Brooklyn...André Holland.

What would urbanist legend Jane Jacobs think of downtown Brooklyn today? Jacobs' "four elements for a good neighborhood" are foundational for many modern urban planners. But Jacobs herself did not hold downtown Brooklyn in high regard when she was writing in the 1960s. In this episode, host Maheema applies Jacobs's own four elements to modern DTBK

The Power of Black Boy Joy

We celebrate the career of Malcolm-Jamal Warner and his impact on how Black men are portrayed on television.

Super Hero Summer

The two biggest brands in the superhero business are rebooting their flagship characters at the box office. Throw in a
few super-powered tv series with these movies and we've quite an interesting summer. We will give our reviews of what
has been released so far and talk about what we are excited to see next.

Films On Freedom

It's Independence Day but most of us marginalized folks don't feel free. So we curated our own list of films with freedom
themes to go with your bbq and fireworks. America is a mess but you can still enjoy the day off. Go be free, booboo.

We discuss America's longest running tv sketch comedy show and ponder what could be next. We'll also rundown the list of our sketch comedy faves.

Queer Story Survival Kit: All Letters Matter

This is the last installment of our Pride series. We talk about all of our Queers siblings the we do see enough of in
popular media. Say the whole thing with us sweetie, L-G-B-T-Q-I-A-PLUS. Why? Because all of these letter matter.

The sonic world and career of composer Pauline Oliveros (1936-2016) featuring a 2008 interview with the artist conducted by David Weinstein for the radio station of the Clocktower Gallery in support of an exhibition at PS1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1) entitled WACK: Art of the Feminist Revolution. We also hear solos and collaborative works recorded for the Roulette concert series dating from 1984 to 2014 including excerpts with the Deep Listening Band (Stuart Dempster, trombone, didjeridu and David Gamper (piano, "toys"), and a trio with David Arner
(piano) and Doug Van Nort (custom electronics). The influence of Dr. Oliveros on contemporary music is unrivaled, from electronic innovations, sonic meditations, ceremonial works, the Deep Listening paradigm, her Expanded Instrument System (processing time and space), hot-wired accordion, and merging a social conscience with sound.

https://roulette.org/

Queer Strory Survial Kit: Ladies First

We are still in our Pride series, but this week we'll be talking about some great selections featuring the stories of Queer
women. We have a lot of thoughts about the landscape for Woman-led queer stories. Most of our thoughts sum up to
one idea: HUNNY, we all need to pay more attention to Queer women of Color. Duh.