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Rosanne Cash: Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Storytelling Psychology with Robyn Fivush)

Transmissions :: Emmylou Harris

678: Smithereens Charts Its Own Course with Nikita Malhotra & Nick Tamburo

863. – Chris & Jason

Amy Herdy’s new documentary, <a href="https://www.parrotkindergartendoc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parrot Kindergarten</a>, about an attorney and cult survivor who heals by teaching her parrot to read, is in theaters from November 3. She is president and co-founder of Covetower, an investigative production company dedicated to high-impact storytelling across film and television, and has helped create some of the most impactful documentaries of the past decade. She first entered the film world as an expert researcher for the Oscar-nominated, Peabody-winning documentary The Invisible War (2012), her first, which exposed the epidemic of sexual assault in the U.S. military. With Dick and Ziering, she then produced The Hunting Ground (2015), that ignited the national conversation about campus sexual assault and reshaped school policies nationwide; The Bleeding Edge (2018), which investigated corruption in the medical device industry, catalyzing removals of dangerous devices from the market; On the Record (2020), a searing exposé at the intersection of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo; and the four-part HBO series Allen v. Farrow, which was nominated for seven Emmys. Before entering film, Ms. Herdy built her investigative skills in television news and newspapers, reporting in Florida and Kentucky before joining The Denver Post.

Amy Herdy

Film

I Went to Film a Parrot. I Discovered a New Language.

Casey Dienel is a producer, singer, and songwriter known for their genre-defying solo work and earlier releases as White Hinterland. Raised on the New England coast, they’ve released four acclaimed albums marked by bold emotional depth and sonic invention. From their studio in Scituate, MA, Dienel continues to evolve a sound Nylon once called “wild, vicious, poetic, feminine, brash, and singular.” Their latest, My Heart Is an Outlaw, is out now on Jealous Butcher Records. 
(Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez)

Casey Dienel

Music

Casey Dienel and Adam Schatz Talk About Real Stuff

677: Is Sourmilk the Graza of Yogurt? Kiki Couchman Bets on Bettering the Microbiome.

862. – Chris & Jason

A House of Dynamite

676: Michael W. Twitty Went Deep On American Southern Food

Erik Jensen and his wife Jessica Blank are a multihyphenate creative team in film, television and theater; The New Yorker calls them “the foremost practitioners of documentary theater in the U.S.” Their new film, Brooklyn, Minnesota, starring Amy Madigan, Sadie Jensen-Blank and Erik Jensen, is currently playing festivals, with a theatrical release planned for 2026; their first feature, Almost Home, was released in 2019 by Vertical. They are currently developing a biopic of legendary rock critic Lester Bangs and have written TV for Fox, 20th TV, Gaumont, Levinson/Fontana, David Simon/Blown Deadline, and Ed Burns. Their plays include The Exonerated (Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, Drama Desk Awards), Aftermath (NYTW; two Drama League noms), How To Be a Rock Critic (CTG, Steppenwolf, Public Theater), The Line (Public Theater) and Coal Country (Public Theater, Cherry Lane/Audible; Lortel, two Drama Desk noms; original music by Steve Earle).

Erik Jensen

Finding the Light: The Making of Brooklyn, Minnesota

country girl’s upbringing was steeped in orchestral tradition and solitude. As a home schooled teenager, he enrolled in Juiliard’s Precollege program to study flute. At the age of 16, he discovered contemporary genres, now citing minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and slick projects in the vein of Air as key influences.
country girl is based in Brooklyn, and his latest EP, patience, is out now on FADER Label.

country girl

What Zohran Means For Alternative Music in New York

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