Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

The Dallas Morning News culture podcast

  1. Ep. 41 — The Dallas Book Festival and a literary city in progress; Jay-Z in the college classroom

    04/28/2016

    Ep. 41 — The Dallas Book Festival and a literary city in progress; Jay-Z in the college classroom

    The Dallas Book Festival is Sat., April 30 at the Dallas Public Library. We discuss Lauren Smart's piece on the city's ongoing ambitions to become a literary city. Also, culture critic Chris Vognar and arts and culture editor Christopher Wynn chat with Lauren about a UT Arlington English class that uses analytics to study the work of Jay-Z.

    24 min
  2. Exclusive preview: New 'Strange' podcast

    04/23/2016

    Exclusive preview: New 'Strange' podcast

    'Mixed Media' listeners get an exclusive first listen to co-host Christopher Wynn's new pop-up podcast, 'Strange.' In this debut episode, four Texans tell their true stories of an encounter with the strange. Author Virginia Savage McAlester reveals for the first time her chilling brush with the Boston Strangler. Investigative journalist Jeff Guinn takes us “creepy-crawling” with Charles Manson’s deranged Family. Novelist Merritt Tierce meets a very personal threat on her own front porch. And Jeffrey Cranor, co-creator of the hit podcast and novel, 'Welcome to Night Vale,' reminds us why we fear the woods at night. Learn more and see exclusive photos at guidelive.com/podcasts or check out two of the featured authors in the new 'Dallas Morning News' #LiteraryDallas interactive: http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2016/literary-dallas/

    24 min
  3. Ep. 40 — Every Song Ever: 20 Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

    04/21/2016

    Ep. 40 — Every Song Ever: 20 Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

    We dive into Ben Ratliff's new book 'Every Song Ever,' a listening guide for the age of musical plenty.

    15 min
  4. Ep. 39 — Spring music preview and SXSW 2016 debrief with Hunter Hauk

    04/10/2016

    Ep. 39 — Spring music preview and SXSW 2016 debrief with Hunter Hauk

    Dallas Morning News pop music critic Hunter Hauk, DMN culture critic Chris Vognar and Dallas Observer arts & culture editor Lauren Smart talk shop with DMN arts and culture editor Christopher Wynn about the new music (and old acts) they loved or hated at South by Southwest 2016.

    15 min
  5. Ep. 38 — 'Blood! Blood! Blood!': Skip Hollandsworth on Austin's infamous serial killer

    04/08/2016

    Ep. 38 — 'Blood! Blood! Blood!': Skip Hollandsworth on Austin's infamous serial killer

    Dallas Morning News culture critic Chris Vognar talks with 'Bernie' screenwriter and 'Texas Monthly' executive editor Skip Hollandsworth about Hollandsworth' new book 'Midnight Assassin,' the story of Austin's infamous serial killer.

    20 min
  6. Ep. 37 — The 'Cliburn curse.' Is it real? Critic Scott Cantrell talks death, tragedy and virtuoso pianists

    03/25/2016

    Ep. 37 — The 'Cliburn curse.' Is it real? Critic Scott Cantrell talks death, tragedy and virtuoso pianists

    The so-called 'Cliburn curse' is being recalled after a virtuoso pianist's wife was charged with killing their 2 daughters in a Fort Worth suburb. ' Dallas Morning News' contributing classical music critic Scott Cantrell discusses the strange tragedy and the even stranger story of the curse. Three previous Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winners have met tragic ends. Download more episodes of the Mixed Media podcast on iTunes.

    10 min
  7. Ep. 36 — Our exclusive interview: Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw

    03/21/2016

    Ep. 36 — Our exclusive interview: Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw

    Listen to 'Dallas Morning News' theater critic Nancy Churnin's conversation with actors Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. From 1970's ‘Love Story’ to 2016's ‘Love Letters,’ feelings still linger between the friends and actors. O’Neal laughs, listens, teases and flirts with MacGraw throughout the conversation, talking about her beauty, love at first sight and the intensity of their chemistry, which neither knows quite how to explain. Follow Nancy Churnin on Twitter at @nchurnin and read more about 'Love Letters,' coming to AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas at dallasnews.com. Download more episodes of the Mixed Media podcast on iTunes.

    26 min
  8. Ep. 35 — Our exclusive interview: Sophia Loren

    03/20/2016

    Ep. 35 — Our exclusive interview: Sophia Loren

    Listen to 'Dallas Morning News' writer and 'Mixed Media' contributor Michael Granberry's exclusive conversation with 81-year-old screen icon Sophia Loren. Loren has shared the silver screen with Charlton Heston, Peter Sellers, Clark Gable, Marcello Mastroianni, Paul Newman, Cary Grant and Gregory Peck. But it's a director she remembers most fondly. Plus: Find out what Loren really things of that famous photograph of her staring incredulously at Jayne Mansfield's ample bosom. A print of the photo now hangs in Dallas restaurateur Shannon Wynne's Meddlesome Moth restaurant.

    11 min
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The Dallas Morning News culture podcast

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  • Creator
    The Dallas Morning News
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2016
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Mixed Media

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