City Lights with Lois Reitzes WABE

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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Fahamu Pecou, founder of the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta, discusses their new exhibition, "A Shield Against the Darkness: The Art and Scholarship of Pellom McDaniels III," which is on view through June 28. Plus, Atlanta-based fashion designer Christian Allana details her involvement in the new incubator program from the fast-fashion company Shein called "Shein X Rescued." The program has designers use deadstock materials to help reduce global carbon dioxide emissions.

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Music producer John Snyder discusses his role as project coordinator for the New Orleans Jazz Museum expansion. Plus, WABE’s H. Johnson stops by for the newest edition of our series, “H Johnson’s Jazz Moment,” and Sally Westmoreland details the upcoming Elizabeth B. Stephens International Organ Competition.

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