The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Changing The Way We Mourn Loved Ones
The coronavirus crisis is affecting the funeral home industry. With CDC guidelines restricting mass gatherings, services are being altered.
The coronavirus crisis is affecting the funeral home industry. With CDC guidelines restricting mass gatherings, services are being altered.
Comedian Tom Papa wants you to focus on the small victories. The little triumphs in everyday life that add up to winning the war against cynicism. His new Netflix special, You’re Doing Great! sums up his philosophy perfectly. So you’re not killing it like everyone else on Instagram. That’s fine! They’re not really killing it either. You finally made it out of the house to run that errand you’ve been putting off all week? Now THAT’S killing it! That approach to comedy seems increasingly rare but Tom has made a nearly 30 year career on it. Tom joins us to talk about the moment when he decided to become a comedian, his familial take on comedy, and the resilience of his Nana.
Christopher Nolan’s films are events—smart, ambitious and original. But before he made “Interstellar,” “Dunkirk” or his “Dark Knight” trilogy—even before “Memento”—Nolan made the 70-minute indie thriller FOLLOWING. This week, Adam and Josh start their Nolan “Oeuvre-view” with Nolan’s ‘99 debut, which gives tantalizing clues of the director he’ll become and the stories he’ll go on to tell. Bette Davis won a much-deserved Oscar for her performance in 1938’s JEZEBEL. The William Wyler-directed drama set in ante-bellum New Orleans is the second film in our Davis Marathon. Plus, Filmspotting Madness: Best of the 2010s comes down to the final two.0:00 - Billboard1:07 - Nolan “Oeuvre-view” #1: “Following”Ernie Hendrickson, “Dystopian Dreams”32:39 - Next Week/Notes35:08 - Filmspotting Madness Finals55:37 - Bette Davis #2: “Jezebel”1:31:10 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Spring is here, and it’s time to get caught up with some of the new releases of the season. From comeback kids to buzzworthy new artists, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot have you covered. Plus, we revisit the “best” supergroup of all time 50 years later, The Masked Marauders.
Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright talks about his new pop album, Unfollow The Rules, and explains how he’s been able to translate the electricity of his live shows for a digital audience during the pandemic. Visual artist Liza Lou fills us in on her new community art project, which encourages people to join her in weaving quilts out of household materials while live streaming the process. Canadian drag queen and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Brooke Lynn Hytes discusses her initiative to help raise money for drag queens in Canada who are out of work due to COVID-19. Canadian singer-songwriter Basia Bulat talks about her new record, Are You in Love?, as well as her recent Instagram Live performances. Canadian landscape painter John Hartman discusses his latest project, a book and exhibition, both titled Many Lives Mark This Place, which feature 32 portraits of Canadian writers in places that are meaningful to them.
Schitt’s Creek is a Canadian comedy from the minds of Eugene Levy and his son Daniel follows a wealthy family that falls on hard times. They have no choice but to retreat to the small town they bought as a joke.
On the Gist, nobody does it better.In the interview, Mike talks with Katherine Stewart about her new book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. They discuss how the political ideology from the right wing cloaks itself in religious rhetoric, who in the Trump cabinet is part of movement, and how it inhibits the administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis.In the spiel, maybe Loeffler and Burr aren’t guilty of insider trading.Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor organizer who co-founded a beautiful and muscular movement with caregivers and those who employ them: The National Domestic Workers Alliance. For over two decades, she has been reinventing policy and engaging a deep conversation that has now met its civilizational moment. This conversation was recorded before “coronavirus” was a word we all knew. But the many dimensions of the crisis now upon us have revealed Ai-jen Poo and her world of wisdom and action as teachers for our life together, in and beyond it.Ai-jen Poo is executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of Caring Across Generations. Her book is The Age of Dignity. Her podcast, co-hosted with Alicia Garza, is Sunstorm.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor organizer who co-founded a beautiful and muscular movement with caregivers and those who employ them: The National Domestic Workers Alliance. For over two decades, she has been reinventing policy and engaging a deep conversation that has now met its civilizational moment. This conversation was recorded before “coronavirus” was a word we all knew. But the many dimensions of the crisis now upon us have revealed Ai-jen Poo and her world of wisdom and action as teachers for our life together, in and beyond it. Ai-jen Poo is executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of Caring Across Generations. Her book is The Age of Dignity. Her podcast, co-hosted with Alicia Garza, is Sunstorm.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Ai-jen Poo — This Is Our (Caring) Revolution.” Find more at onbeing.org.
Community singalongs have been popping up around the world, but in the South Loop, they also include a nightly light show.