City Lights with Lois Reitzes WABE

Atlanta-based 2024 Guggenheim fellow Jessica Blinkhorn discusses her future artistic plans. Plus, food historian Akila McConnell and chef Asata Reid from the WABE podcast “Savory Stories” discuss the culinary history of Chinese food in Atlanta, and we listen back to Lois’s conversation with legendary Atlanta broadcaster Monica Pearson. 

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Mellow Mushroom co-founder Marc “Banks” Weinstein discusses the 50-year history of Atlanta’s hometown pizza chain. Plus, singer and multi-instrumentalist Benjamin J. Davidow takes the spotlight in our series, “Speaking of Music,” and Munir Meghjani and David Perdue detail the next installment of Comedy and Conversations, which takes place at the Margaret Mitchell House at Atlanta History Center Midtown this Thursday, June 27.

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Ray Kim, cellist and former member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, and former musical director Jere Flint discuss the 50th anniversary of the ASYO. Plus, we hear about this week’s Southern Fried Queer Pride Festival, taking place at various locations around Little Five Points.

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Chef Deuki Hong and journalist Matt Rodbard discuss their new cookbook, “KOREAWORLD,” and their upcoming celebratory dinner at Chai Pani on June 25th. Plus, we listen back to Lois’s 2021 conversation with author and cultural historian Caseen Gaines about the 1921 history-making musical, “Shuffle Along.” Gaine’s book is “Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way.”

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Mo Rocca, the beloved “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” panelist and CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, recently joined City Lights host Lois Reitzes on stage at First Baptist Church of Decatur for a conversation about his latest book, “Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs.” The event was recorded in front of a live audience and presented by WABE, Georgia Center for the Book, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and A Cappella Books.

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Artists Reginald C. Adams and Fabian Williams detail the “Absolute Equality” Juneteenth Mural Project. Plus, children’s book author Allison Hill discusses “Lolly the Left-Out Lobster,” and Quasi drummer Janet Weiss and multi-instrumentalist Sam Coomes stop by ahead of their upcoming show at the EARL on June 22.

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