Around Noon: November 2006

dance troupe Philadanco, Grammy-winning composer/pianist William Bolcom, author Augusten Burroughs
Originally aired Wednesday, November 1
Today Jim tangos with members of the dance troupe Philadanco as they get set for a performance at Playhouse Square; previews Grammy-winning composer/pianist William Bolcom’s appearance at Baldwin Wallace College; and avoids Running With Scissors with author Augusten Burroughs before his lecture at Playhouse Square.

legacy of Roy Orbison, singer/songwriter Tift Merritt
Originally aired Thursday, November 2
Jim celebrates the legacy of Roy Orbison as the 2006 American Music Masters series presents Only The Lonely: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Remembering Roy will be bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs, singer/songwriter Tift Merritt, and the Rock Hall’s Vice-President of Education, Warren Zanes.

latest event in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Viva! series, Australian singer-songwriter Ben L
Originally aired Friday, November 3
Jim previews the latest event in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Viva! series, The Royal Drummers of Burundi and Mombasa Party. Plus, we hear from Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee prior to his performance at the House of Blues. Then ideastream takes you live to the City Club for the debate between the candidates for Ohio Attorney General, Marc Dann and Betty Montgomery.

Maya Angelou, Shaker grad Andy Borowitz, regular irregular Steve Litt of the Plain Dealer
Originally aired Monday, November 6
Dee previews Maya Angelou’s inaugural appearance at The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution’s Maya Angelou Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture; skewers the political scene with satirist and Shaker grad Andy Borowitz before his performance at the Cleveland Improv; and talks art and architecture with regular irregular Steve Litt of the Plain Dealer.

the life of Robert F. Kennedy, Actor/writer Jack Holmes, local writer, Joe Mackall.
Originally aired Tuesday, November 7
Today Dee meets the hosts of World Have Your Say as they prepare to broadcast from the Idea Center’s Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre; Dan Polletta looks at the life of Robert F. Kennedy with actor/writer Jack Holmes before his one-man show RFK hits the Cleveland Play House stage; and Dee takes us to the Last Street Before Cleveland with local writer, Joe Mackall.

Spaces Gallery Artist-in-Residence Dan Acostioaei, Piano maestro Michael Wolff
Originally aired Wednesday, November 8
Dee meets Spaces Gallery Artist-in-Residence Dan Acostioaei before the opening of the exhibition Misdemeanor; Bobby Jackson gets the score from piano maestro Michael Wolff as Michael gets set to play Nighttown in Cleveland Heights; and we discuss the results of yesterday’s vote on Issue 18.

Fabulous Food Show, The Decemberists
Originally aired Thursday, November 9
Today Dee previews the Fabulous Food Show at the I-X Center with the Plain Dealer’s Joe Crea; meets alt-popsters The Decemberists before their Agora gig; and updates the current construction status of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.

Anniversary of Kristallnacht with Mark Klempner and Space Artist-in-Residence Dan Acostioaei
Originally aired Friday, November 10
Dee observes the anniversary of Kristallnacht with Mark Klempner, author of The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage; meets Spaces Gallery Artist-in-Residence Dan Acostioaei before the opening of the exhibition Misdemeanor; and Bobby Jackson chats with Portuguese songstress Ana Moura before she performs as part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s VIVA! series.

Ruth Andrew Ellenson, British soul vocalist Jamie Lidell
Originally aired Monday, November 13
Dee kvetches with Ruth Andrew Ellenson, author of The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide To Guilt, before her appearance at the 2006 JCC Festival of Jewish Books and Authors; previews the John Jackson retrospective at Zygote Press; and gets the score from British soul vocalist Jamie Lidell before he lights up The Grog Shop stage.

Editor of Good Roots: Writers reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, Neil McDonald, Tri-C Jazz Fest
Originally aired Tuesday, November 14
Today Dee gets literary with Lisa Watts, editor of Good Roots: Writers reflect on Growing Up in Ohio; previews Kent artist Neil McDonald’s exhibition at SHAHEEN Modern and Contemporary Art; and Bobby Jackson previews Tri-C Jazz Fest Cleveland’s Picante Weekend with Managing Director Beth Rutkowski.

ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers, Trio Mediaeval
Originally aired Wednesday, November 15
Dee plays good cop-bad cop with the author of One Train Later, ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers, in town as part of the Rock Hall’s Hall of Fame Series; and Jim Goldurs gets medieval with the young Scandinavian sopranos of Trio Mediaeval before they perform as part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s VIVA! series.

Christopher Fleming, Cleveland Botanical Garden Brian Holley
Originally aired Thursday, November 16
Today Dee takes steps with choreographer Christopher Fleming as the Dancing Wheels get set to perform Helen Keller: A Tribute to Her Teacher at Cuyhaoga Community College’s Eastern Campus; and finds out what’s in bloom with the outgoing Executive Director of the Cleveland Botanical Garden Brian Holley.

neo-soul siren Conya Doss, vibraphonist Roy Ayers and flautist Bobbi Humphrey
Originally aired Friday, November 17
Dee welcomes neo-soul siren Conya Doss into the ideastream studios for some live music before her gig at Club 75; and Bobby Jackson chats with vibraphonist Roy Ayers and flautist Bobbi Humphrey as they get set to play The Agora as part of the Original Superstars of Jazz Fusion.

Author Steven Kotler, Singer/songwriter Chris Allen
Originally aired Monday, November 20
Dee speaks with author Steven Kotler before his appearance at the 2006 JCC Festival of Jewish Books and Authors; previews singer/songwriter Chris Allen’s appearance at the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room; and explores how students from Baldwin-Wallace’s acclaimed musical theater program workshop a musical in progress, The Breakup Notebook: The Lesbian Musical.

popularity of “A Christmas Story”
Originally aired Tuesday, November 21
Dee explores the lasting popularity of the cult film classic A Christmas Story; first she meets the owner of the newly-opened A Christmas Story House and Museum in Tremont, and then a preview of the stage adaptation at the Cleveland Play House; and a conversation with the two stars of the Beck Center’s production of Greater Tuna

The Annual Three Chefs Thanksgiving cooking call-in show!
Originally aired Wednesday, November 22
Today Dee hosts her annual Three Chefs Thanksgiving cooking call-in show! Featured chefs are: Jonathan Bennett of Moxie, Jill Vedaa of the Saucy Bistro, and Ricardo Sandoval of Fat Cats and Halite.

American Public Media brings you Giving Thanks
Originally aired Thursday, November 23
Dee takes the holiday off as American Public Media brings you Giving Thanks. Host John Birge brings classical music and stories together in a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday. Guests include best-selling author and humorist Anne Lamott, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and environmentalist Gary Snyder and journalist Bill Moyers.

Trumpet virtuoso Sean Jones
Originally aired Friday, November 24
Bobby Jackson spends the hour with young trumpet virtuoso Sean Jones, discussing Jones’s latest Mack Avenue Records date Roots and his meteoric rise up the jazz hierarchy, taking the first trumpet seat with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

ocal poets Michael Salinger and Sara Holbrook, photographer Catherine Opie
Originally aired Monday, November 27
Dee studies the rules of verse with local poets Michael Salinger and Sara Holbrook, co-authors of Outspoken!: How to Improve Writing and Speaking Skills Through Poetry Performance; focuses on photographer Catherine Opie and her exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, In and Around Home; and chats with regular irregular John Ewing about the latest offerings at the Cleveland Cinematheque.

Jim Foster of The City Club of Cleveland
Originally aired Tuesday, November 28
Jim Goldurs sits in for Dee and tries to avoid a series of unfortunate events with reclusive author Lemony Snicket; and welcomes Jim Foster of The City Club of Cleveland to talk about the Club’s history and remember some funny (and maybe not-so-funny) things that have happened as we welcome your phone calls.

Ohio Dance Theatre, Brazilian Girls, Annie Fullard-violinist for the Cleveland Institute of Music
Originally aired Wednesday, November 29
Today Dee does battle with the Mouse King and waltzes with the Sugar Plum Fairy as the Ohio Dance Theatre prepares to present the classic Nutcracker Ballet; previews the Brazilian Girls’ gig at the Grog Shop; and gets classical with Annie Fullard, violinist for the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Cavani String Quartet, on the eve of CIM’s annual Chamber Music Festival.

Kurt Andersen and curator Robert Storr and Master fiddlers Steven Greenman and Jim Kelley
Originally aired Thursday, November 30
Dee gets a lecture from Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and curator Robert Storr before they speak at Spectrum: The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues at the Cleveland Public Library; and welcomes master fiddlers Steven Greenman and Jim Kelley of the Roots of American Music to the Key Bank Studio for some live music as they get set to perform at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.