Around Noon, ideastream’s weekday radio magazine, celebrates the visual and performing arts, explores cultural trends, and examines current events through an artistic lens. The show hosts a lively mix of regional, national, and international guests, and often invites listeners to interact with those guests in lively, thought-provoking discussions. Dee Perry hosts.
Posted February 24, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music
Dee Perry welcomes musical brothers Dan and Warren Zanes of The Del Fuegos, as they've reunited for a tour taking the stage of the Beachland Ballroom tonight.
Posted February 23, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Motion Pictures (Film, Video)
Dee Perry hosts her annual Oscar call-in show with a panel of local film buffs, as she opens the phones for you to share your picks and pans for this weekend's Academy Awards.
Posted February 22, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music
Dan Polletta spotlights the music of Canadian afro-beat band - The Souljazz Orchestra - as they get ready for their gig at the Grog Shop tonight, spotlighting music from their latest CD - 'Rising Sun.'
Posted February 21, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Theatre
Dee Perry shares her conversation with award-winning playwright Will Eno whose play 'Middletown' opens this week at Dobama Theater in Cleveland Heights. We also hear a conversation with opera legend Marilyn Horne who returns to The Oberlin Conservatory of Music to lead vocal master classes this weekend. And Dan Polletta speaks with local jazz man Dave Morgan about his work 'The Way of the Sly Man' which gets the spotlight this Friday night for the 40th Annual Lakeland Jazz Festival.
Posted February 20, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, History, Theatre, Black History Month
The relationship between Oskar, the head of a Nazi detention camp and Gabriel, an African-American Cabaret singer being held at the camp is at the center of the Antebellum a play that bridges space, time, religion and race. Set in 1939…the story moves between Germany and a fading Atlanta plantation that’s preparing for the opening of Gone with the Wind. As Cleveland Public Theatre undertakes a production of Antebellum, playwright Robert O’Hara and director Beth Wood discuss bridging two worlds that seem unconnected to tell a tale that challenges intolerance across continents…
Posted February 17, 2012
Topics: Black History Month
Dee Perry welcomes Meshell Ndegeocello prior to her performance tonight at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for its Black Hisotry Month series - Ladies First: African-American Women Who Rock.
Posted February 16, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Painting, Miscellaneous, Courts/Crime - Fire/Law Enforcement
Dee Perry spotlights the acclaimed classical troupe The Calder Quartet prior to their performance at The Akron Art Museum Friday night. Plus, Christopher Wilkins, music director for The Akron Symphony Orchestra talks Beethoven and Brahms. And we meet a lawyer who's lending a helping hand to artists tonight at Spaces Gallery.
Posted February 15, 2012
Topics: Government/Politics
'Around Noon' will not be heard today as ideastream broadcasts the Debate for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor live from The City Club of Cleveland featuring Subodh Chandra, Stephanie Hall, James McDonnel, Timothy McGinty and Robert Triozzi.
Posted February 14, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Motion Pictures (Film, Video), Music, Painting
Dee Perry welcomes Dia Frampton, runner-up on 'The Voice' for a live performance before for her Valentine's Day gig at The Grog Shop, as she spotlights music from her new CD - 'Red.' Plus we preview the new exhibition opening this weekend at The Cleveland Museum of Art - 'Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship.' And we hear from the director behind the acclaimed documentary 'The Interrupters' airing tonight on WVIZ/PBS
Posted February 13, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, History, Motion Pictures (Film, Video), Music, Black History Month
Today we preview the new PBS documentary 'Slavery by Another Name,' with Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Douglas A. Blackmon. Plus Case Western Reserve University's Mary Davis reports on Fashion Week in New York City and spotlights the acclaimed film 'Bill Cunningham New York.' And we share a short panel discussion on the state of opera in Northeast Ohio with The Cleveland Institute of Music's David Bamberger, The Plain Dealer's Don Rosenberg, and Dorota Sobieska of Opera Circle.
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Weekdays 12:00 PM
Host: Dee Perry
Producer: Dave DeOreo
Executive Producer: Mark Rosenberger
Applause celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this televised arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews.
Production of arts and culture programming on ideastream is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation; Eaton Corporation Charitable Foundation; The George Gund Foundation; The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation; The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation; The Kulas Foundation; The Nord Family Foundation; Parker Hannifin Foundation; The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust; and NACCO Industries, Inc.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
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