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Ep 22: Authors on Air with Tim Johnston
Talk of the Town: After Hours - February 24, 2024 20:00 - 40 minutesWVBR News Director Jack Donnellan recently sat down with New York Times Bestselling Author Tim Johnston for the latest episode of our “Authors on Air” series. Tim is the author of the novels DISTANT SONS, DESCENT, THE CURRENT, the story collection IRISH GIRL, and the Young Adult novel NEVER SO G...
Ep 21: Authors on Air with Mark Wish
Talk of the Town: After Hours - January 05, 2024 20:00 - 52 minutesWVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sat down with author, editor, and publisher Mark Wish. Mark and his wife recently founded an annual short story anthology, Coolest American Stories, which pushes its contributors to make their fiction as compelling as possible, reminding them that readers crave ...
Ep 20: Authors on Air with Ralph White
Talk of the Town: After Hours - October 13, 2023 20:00 - 42 minutesWVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sits down with Ralph White alongside DZ Stone, a writer, journalist, and former WVBR staffer, for WVBR News’ newest series, Authors on Air. Ralph’s book, Getting Out of Saigon, is a political exposé, a refugee saga, a coming-of-age story, and a romance, and it i...
Ep 19: Life and Localization with Activist Helena Norberg-Hodge
Talk of the Town: After Hours - June 15, 2022 11:00 - 1 hourWVBR News Directors Andrew Modrowsky and Jack Donnellan interview environmental activist and a pioneer of the “new economy movement", Helena Norberg-Hodge. Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures, a non-profit dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by strengthen...
Ep 18 Poetry and Politics with NM State Senator, Author & Cornell Alum Bill O'Neill
Talk of the Town: After Hours - June 10, 2022 07:20 - 54 minutesWVBR News Directors Andrew Modrowsky and Jack Donnellan interview NM State Senator, Cornell alum (and one-time kick returner on the football team) and author Bill O'Neill. O’Neill read from his recent poetry collection The Definition of Empty from University of New Mexico Press, as well as his r...
Ep 17: NY Politics, Stock Market Woes & Your Daily Aspirin Regimen
Talk of the Town: After Hours - May 25, 2022 08:05 - 24 minutesAndrew Modrowsky discusses the resignation of U.S. Representative Tom Reed (NY-23), Grace Fairchild investigates why the markets are down, and Jack Donnellan breaks down why you might want to reconsider your daily aspirin regimen. We also report on local news from the Ithaca/Tompkins County regi...
Ep 16: The Future of Abortion Rights with Cornell Law Prof Sherry Colb
Talk of the Town: After Hours - May 09, 2022 20:00 - 31 minutesIntroducing new WVBR News Directors Jack Donnellan and Andrew Modrowsky! Join Jack as he provides updates on the goings-on at the station and what to expect from WVBR news in the future. Also, hear WVBR's top-notch reporting team break down the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion in the Dob...
Ep 15: Antitrust and Universities with Cornell Law & Economics Prof George Hay
Talk of the Town: After Hours - February 01, 2022 04:42 - 24 minutesOn January 11, a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois against 16 major US universities, including Cornell, for antitrust violations. The lawsuit claims that these universities unlawfully collaborate on student aid calculations and fail to truly apply need-blind admissions policies. T...
Ep 14: Haiti Earthquake, IPCC Climate Report, and Cuomo Goes Home
Talk of the Town: After Hours - August 16, 2021 23:43 - 13 minutesJackie Torres provides an update on the Saturday 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, Izzy Frabotta breaks down the IPCC Climate Report, and Grace Fairchild gives an editorial on what seems to be the end of the Andrew Cuomo saga. This episode contains reports from the Saturday, August 14 live Tal...
Ep 13: Reopening Ithaca: A WVBR/WICB Collaborative Episode
Talk of the Town: After Hours - April 26, 2021 19:14 - 53 minutesWhat does life in Ithaca look like in spring of 2021? The news departments at WICB and WVBR teamed up to catalogue the changes and challenges of the new normal. Find more from the WICB News Department here. wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on...
Ep 12: Dr. Christine Balance on Violence Against the AAPI Community & Prof. John Blume on the Derek Chauvin Trial
Talk of the Town: After Hours - April 06, 2021 06:17 - 31 minutesWith segments from the April 3rd radio broadcast, this episode asks Dr. Christine Balance, Cornell PMA and Asian American Studies professor, about the rise in violence against Asian Americans in the US. Later, we visit with Cornell Law Professor John Blume about the legal procedures and norms be...
Ep 11: Sunnier Days Ahead & BigRedBun Fun
Talk of the Town: After Hours - March 22, 2021 18:34 - 45 minutesFrom the March 20th Talk of the Town show, we have an interview with small business owner Deirdre Kurzweil about her landlord experience in the Ithaca Commons, and an interview with Erin Scannell, whose emotional support bunny, Finn, is the Instagram and Cornell famous @BigRedBun. Thanks to C...
Ep 10: Vaccine Distribution, the Death Penalty, and DACA
Talk of the Town: After Hours - December 15, 2020 08:39 - 45 minutesWith segments from the December 12th radio show, Cornell Professors Colleen Carey, John Blume, and Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer share their insight on vaccine distribution, the death penalty, and DACA, respectively. Reporters: Izzy Frabotta, Jade Ovadia, Grace Fairchild wvbr.com/afterhours Catch the ...
Ep 9: The Lanternfly and Cayuga Chamber Orchestra's Holiday Concert
Talk of the Town: After Hours - December 09, 2020 22:26 - 9 minuteswvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com. Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them here.
Ep 8: COVID Vaccine Trials, CNBC's Peter Schacknow, Free Thanksgiving Meals in Tompkins County, and Working the Nov 3 Election
Talk of the Town: After Hours - November 18, 2020 03:32 - 22 minuteswvbr.com/afterhours Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com. Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them here.
Ep. 7: Tracy Mitrano, Tom O'Mara, Stephen Yale-Loehr on H-1B Visas, Tompkins County Schools, and Cornell PMA Virtual Shows
Talk of the Town: After Hours - October 27, 2020 06:14 - 52 minutesCatch our full Talk of the Town show on Saturdays at 3p EST on WVBR 93.5 FM, or on wvbr.com. wvbr.com/afterhours Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them here.
Ep 6: Police Reform, Leslie Danks Burke, and Nobel Prize Winners
Talk of the Town: After Hours - October 20, 2020 19:13 - 23 minutesWith highlights from the October 17th radio episode of Talk of the Town, this week's After Hours brings you stories on a Tompkins County police forum, an interview with New York State Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke, and a wrap up of this year’s Nobel Prize winners. Thanks to Clara Enders...
Ep. 5: VP Debate, State Assembly Race, Tompkins County Environmental Justice, and the Johnson Goes Virtual
Talk of the Town: After Hours - October 12, 2020 18:55 - 41 minutesWith segments from our October 10th radio episode of Talk of the Town, this week we have reports from Christopher Morales, Grace Fairchild, Izzy Frabotta, and Clara Enders. wvbr.com/afterhours Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Music written, reco...
Ep. 4: Cornell's COVID Containment, Election Frenzies, and Socially-Distant Apple Fest
Talk of the Town: After Hours - October 03, 2020 23:06 - 16 minutesNew WVBR Reporters Izzy Frabotta, Clara Enders, Christopher Morales, and Charlie Mollin contribute stories on coronavirus containment, voting in Tompkins County, Cornell's Student Assembly elections, and de-densified AppleFest. WVBR News is back this fall, and we're bringing you the stories yo...
Ep. 3: Live Music at Supernatural Lake
Talk of the Town: After Hours - August 12, 2020 04:08 - 13 minutesLive music and bars were two early casualties of this year's pandemic, and WVBR News has talked with the people bringing both back to the Finger Lakes Wine Trail this summer. Supernatural Lake right on the shores of Cayuga Lake in Interlaken is the brainchild of New York sommelier Caleb Ganzer. ...
Ep. 2: Anti-Racism Activism at Cornell and a COVID Relief Funding Breakdown
Talk of the Town: After Hours - August 05, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutesThis week's episode features segments from Danny Alvarado-Gómez on Cornell students' anti-racism work, as well as a report from Clara Enders on what to expect from federal COVID relief negotiations and NYS unemployment extensions. Both segments were featured on our July 31st broadcast of Talk of...
Ep. 1: No Matter How Schools Reopen, the ADA Still Applies
Talk of the Town: After Hours - July 29, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutesWVBR News interviewed Joe Zesski, Program Manager for the Northeast ADA Center, about what schools should remember about the Americans with Disabilities Act when they bring students back to the classroom for the upcoming semester. The takeaway? Civil rights laws, including the ADA, still apply— ...
TRAILER: Welcome to After Hours!
Talk of the Town: After Hours - July 27, 2020 15:47 - 2 minutesWelcome to Talk of the Town: After Hours from WVBR News! Questions, comments, or tips? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @WVBRFMNews. Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them here.
TRAILER: Welcome to After Hours!
Talk of the Town: After Hours - July 27, 2020 15:47 - 2 minutesWelcome to Talk of the Town: After Hours from WVBR News! Questions, comments, or tips? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @WVBRFMNews. Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them here.
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