
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 7, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Dance, History, Literature, Photography, Miscellaneous, Immigration
Dee Perry focuses on the early 20th-century African-American images of Cleveland photographer Allen E. Cole on view now at The Western Reserve Historical Society. Plus Dan Polletta speaks with former Plain Dealer writer and current staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer Alfred Lubrano about his book 'Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams.' And Dee welcomes back acclaimed Cleveland choreographer Dianne McIntyre and award-winning playwright Ntozake Shange to spotlight their new collaborative chore-poem - 'Why I Had to Dance.'
Posted February 6, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music
Dee Perry welcomes Joshua Smith and his Ensemble HD (Happy Dog) for a live performance in the Key Bank studio, as they get ready for their gig at Squire Valleevue Farm in Hunting Valley. Plus, we meet a few local boutique owners getting the spotlight in Mom and Pop in the 216. And ideastream's David C. Barnett takes a peek into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's new archives building. Photo credit: Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer
Posted February 3, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music
Dee Perry welcomes award-winning vocalist Aaron Neville who spotlights music from his latest CD - I Know I've Been Changed - prior to his performance tonight at The Tangier in Akron.
Posted February 2, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Literature, Sculpture, Theatre
Dee Perry spotlights the new Karamu House production of Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' opening this week. Plus Shaker Heights native Sara Levine opens the pages of her acclaimed new novel - Treasure Island!!! - tomorrow at The Shaker Heights Library. And visual artist Margaret Cogswell returns to Northeast Ohio to revisit her work Cuyahoga Fugues at Spaces Gallery.
Posted February 1, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, History, Music
Dee Perry welcomes acclaimed choral master Paul Hillier who brings his Theatre of Voices to The Cleveland Museum of Art for a performance of Arvo Pärt compositions for The Viva and Gala Series. Photo: Magnus Skrede
Posted January 31, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture
Dee Perry welcomes award-winning chef Zack Bruell who's getting ready to open his fifth restaurant in Cleveland - Cowell and Hubbard - in PlayhouseSquare.
Posted January 30, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, History, Music, Theatre
Dee Perry sits down to a game of Mah Jongg as she explores the Chinese game's cultural connections in a new exhibit at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Plus ideastream's Dave DeOreo takes his talents to South Beach to report on The Cleveland Orchestra's performance over the weekend at The Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. And local favorite Dan Folino returns to Northeast Ohio to star in Stephen Sondheim's 'Anyone Can Whistle' at Lakeland Community College.
Posted January 27, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music
Dee Perry speaks with 'The Mayor of Harlem' Cleveland-born jazz drummer - Greg Bandy - who performs tonight and Saturday night with organ player Reuben Wilson at Nighttown in Cleveland Heights.
Posted January 26, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Dance, Music, Photography
Dee Perry speaks with acclaimed and provocative photographer Hank Willis Thomas who spotlights his controversial images at The Cleveland Museum of Art this Saturday. We also take you behind the scenes of a dance described as part vaudeville and part toy store after midnight from The Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company performing this weekend at PlayhouseSquare. Plus, we meet Mato Nanji the Native American blues man who brings his band Indigenous back to the Beachland Ballroom tonight. Photo credit: ''B®anded,'' Branded Head, 2003. Hank Willis Thomas, from the book ''Pitch Blackness'' (Aperture, 2008)
Posted January 25, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Dance, Health, Body in Pain
Dee Perry welcomes Margaret Carlson of Verb Ballets and Bill Wade of Inlet Dance Theatre to share their stories of dancing through pain. Then at 12:30 we take you to The City Club of Cleveland for a special panel discussion on pain. Today's program is part of ideastream's health initiative - Body in Pain.
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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.
Dee Perry image courtesy Chris Stephens, The Plain Dealer