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Applause 8,45
Applause: Thursday, August 10, 2006

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and John Bell and the Jam Band
Around Noon: Thursday, August 10, 2006
Around Noon today we preview the annual Anisfield Wolf Book Awards with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., meet former Clevelander John Bell, better known as “JB” from Widespread Panic, the jam band performing at Blossom, and share the heat of the Burning River Fest.

Special call-in show: Bicycles
Around Noon: Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Dee hosts a special call-in show where you can get on the move with your bicycle, as she welcomes a trio of local biking experts from Century Cycles, Hubbub Cycles and the Ohio City Bike Co-Op.

Five Browns, local singer-songwriter Joe Rohan, Previews new film “World Trade Center”
Around Noon: Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Dee introduces us to two of the Five Browns prior to their performance at Cain Park, shares her conversation with local singer-songwriter Joe Rohan as he gets ready for his Wade Oval Wednesday gig, and previews the new film World Trade Center with special effects supervisor and Cleveland native John Scheele.

Jay Reynolds, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Hillary Carlip, and Maria Dahvana Headley,
Around Noon: Monday, August 7, 2006
Dee travels to the 10th planet with resident space ambassador Jay Reynolds, learns about the art of writing a memoir from writers Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Hillary Carlip, and Maria Dahvana Headley, and ideastream’s Bobby Jackson celebrates the birth anniversary of Columbus saxophone legend, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

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Funding

Production of arts and culture programming on ideastream is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation
The Kulas Foundation

United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Thank you to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon and Applause.

OAC
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Series

Around Noon
Around Noon is WCPN's weekday exploration into the world of local and national culture. Around Noon airs weekdays on WCPN at 12:00 noon.

Applause
Applause takes a weekly look at the local and national culture scene on WVIZ/PBS.

Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come
This profile of the pop music superstar is told through his music and the stories of the people who knew him best, as listeners are taken on a tuneful journey that traces Cooke's amazing life and mysterious death. Premiered July 13, 2007

Backstage With...
Backstage With is a new series of dynamic interviews with masters in the performing arts, offering revealing insights and inspirational motivation into the creation of groundbreaking Broadway musicals. Presented by WVIZ/PBS ideastream® and PlayhouseSquare.

Jazz Tracks
Jazz Tracks seeks to explore our community, our nation and our world while keeping the jazz sensibility in mind. We show how the music has influenced our sense of fashion, our speech, and how it has, in some way, touched just about everything that makes up of our contemporary lifestyle.