Episodes

  • Everett Bradley
    Oct 20 2024

    Everett Bradley is the charismatic creator of the funky cult holiday extravaganza, “HOLIDELIC” - now in its 20th year. He’s a singer, songwriter, and percussionist who’s played with and sang backup for Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Carly Simon, and many others. On this episode, we welcome Papadelic himself - Everett Bradley. https://everettbradley.com/

    Tickets to Holidelic 2024 shows can be purchased here:
    The Vogel: Red Bank, NJ Friday Dec 20th
    Sony Hall: New York City, NY Sunday Dec 22nd

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    One of the most sought after singers, writers, and performers in the entertainment world, Everett Bradley’s resume reads like a who’s who of show business.

    Spanning from multiple genres of music to theater and television, this Grammy-nominated force of nature has lent his unique blend of extraordinary talent, exuberance, and heart to every tour, session, Broadway show and TV program he has been a part of. And there have been many.

    His vocal, percussion and keyboard work have included playing and recording with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Hall & Oates, SEAL, Carly Simon, David Bowie, Snarky Puppy, Quincy Jones, Bobby McFerrin, and presently in the Bon Jovi band.

    Theatrically, he starred in and co-wrote the Broadway musical SWING (Theatre World Award), was a featured performer in the broadway’s AFTER MIDNIGHT, was NY director of the off broadway show STOMP, and re-imagined the orchestrations for a regional production of 42nd Street at Chicago’s Drury Lane and Minneapolis Ordway Theatre which received rave reviews.

    Everett has penned songs for various listening formats. His debut album “AS EVER IT IS” received favorable mentions in Billboard magazine, his club hit “I Luv U Baby” hit #2 on the UK pop charts. He’s written for many commercials and TV shows, and most famously the theme “Feel Real Good” for the Meredith Vieira show in which he was also the musical director/ bandleader.



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    47 mins
  • Kristina Wong
    Oct 13 2024

    On this weeks’ episode we check in with artist, activist, comedian, actor, writer AND multiple award-winner Kristina Wong. We chat about life as a third generation Chinese-American, the inspiration behind her radical, thought-provoking shows, the lure of selling out, and the launch of her newest show, “Kristina Wong, Food Bank Influencer.” https://www.kristinawong.com

    Kristina Wong is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama. She’s a performance artist, comedian, actor and writer whose original theater works have been presented internationally across North America, the UK, Hong Kong and Africa. She’s been a guest on late night shows on NBC, Comedy Central and FX. She’s been awarded artist residencies from MacDowell, San Diego Airport and Ojai Playwrights Festival. She is concurrently the Artist-in-Residence at ASU Gammage and the Kennedy Center Social Practice Resident until 2025. Her recent “Kristina Wong for Public Office” was simultaneously a real life stint as the elected Sub-district 5 representative of Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council and rally campaign show. She's created and directed original theater works with residents of LA's Skid Row, the Bus Riders Union, undocumented immigrants, and most recently the formerly incarcerated Asian Pacific Islanders members of API Rise. Kristina founded Auntie Sewing Squad, a national mutual aid network of volunteers that sewed cloth masks for vulnerable communities during the Covid pandemic. Their book “The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care and Racial Justice is published by the University of California Press. Her role in the Auntie Sewing Squad is the subject of “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord”— a New York Times Critics Pick that premiered off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop. The show won the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance.


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    45 mins
  • Tamar Halpern
    Oct 6 2024

    We welcome award-winning filmmaker, director, writer, and Professor Tamar Halpern to this episode of “Arts and Craft.” Tamar shares her experiences directing the feature documentary, “Llyn Foulkes One Man Band” (now streaming on Amazon Prime and others), stalking the “STOMP” cast through South America, and the challenges she’s faced as a woman in a male-dominated industry. We also dive into her transition to academia, where she’s shaping the next generation of storytellers. Tune in for our convo with a creative force who’s paying it forward. https://www.tamarolandpictures.com/

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    43 mins
  • Russ Irwin
    Sep 29 2024

    Aerosmith, Sting, Bryan Adams, and a host of other acts…Russ Irwin, singer-songwriter, producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist has worked with all of them. What makes great art? What does it take and how does it happen? In this episode we chat about jazz, improvisation, influence and ingenuity, and how an artist’s life can change in a flash. http://russirwin.com


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    47 mins
  • Bill Timoney
    Sep 22 2024

    Actor, director, comedian Bill Timoney, currently performing in in the Kenny Leon-directed revival of Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN on Broadway, joins us for our premiere episode. We chat about life in NYC’s infamous Manhattan Plaza, his run in with Michael Jackson’s Capuchin monkey, and learn a little bit about the world of ADR. And as a bonus; six degrees of separation with Julia Roberts.

    BILL TIMONEY has worked in movies, primetime & daytime TV shows and commercials, and on Broadway and in regional theaters throughout the USA. He was a regular roster member at NYC’s famed Original Improv comedy club during the stand-up boom of the mid 1980s. Bill’s best-known role is “Alfred Vanderpool” the preppie nerd of Pine Valley on the popular soap opera “All My Children.” Bill portrayed the bespectacled, bow tie-wearing Alfred from 1982 thru 1987, returning to the role on a cameo basis from 1998 thru 2005. Bill can be heard in hundreds of TV shows, feature films, and cartoons. He’s voiced numerous recurring roles on that never-ending anime program POKEMON. He writes a column for Videoscope Magazine titled “Heard Not Seen: Adventures in Voice Acting.” Bill is currently in previews on Broadway this Fall in the Kenny Leon-directed revival of Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN.

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    49 mins
  • Introducing Arts and Craft
    Sep 6 2024

    A new chat show that dives into the lives of musicians, filmmakers, performers, and artists from all walks of life, revealing the untold stories and hidden secrets that drive their creativity. Hosted by Nancy Magarill and Peter Michael Marino.


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