"City Lights" explores the creative fabric of Atlanta - our expressive, diverse, influential city. WABE host Lois Reitzes covers pop culture, music, theater, dance, visual arts, food and more.
Lois Reitzes talks with chef Alton Brown and Elizabeth Ingram about their web series "Quarantine Quitchen," former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier about his work under five administrations and Veronica Kessenich about the Atlanta Contemporary bringing art into your home.
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Lois Reitzes talks with Atlanta History Center CEO Sheffield Hale about their digital program, Lara Smith, managing director of Dad's Garage, about a new survey that reveals Atlanta arts organizations will lose more than $10 million due to the pandemic, as well as Jennifer Barlament and Danny Laufer of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra about cancelling their season.
Lois Reitzes talks with Tomer Zvulun and Alvaro Mutate of the Atlanta Opera about their singing telegrams as well as Katherine Kennedy of Concrete Jungle and Emily Roberts of the Atlanta History Center about how they're working to provide food to those in need during the pandemic. Producer Summer Evans sits down with Katie Hayes of Community Farmers Markets for a discussion of how Atlanta farmers markets are making changes in response to COVID-19.
Kevin Rinker talks with Chris Brennaman, owner of Infinite Realities comic books store, and comic book author Mark Russell about how COVID-19 has impacted the world of comics and conventions. Lois Reitzes talks with Timothy Greenfield Sanders about his documentary "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am," as well as intimacy director Ash Anderson and fight choreographer/intimacy director Kristin Storla about their work.
Lois Reitzes interviews BIlly Bragg about his career, Dantes Rameau, founder & chief executive officer of the Atlanta Music Project about their virtual offerings as well as Alliance Theatre playwright in residence Pearl Cleage and director/actor Tinashe Kajese-Bolden about the Alliance Theatre Virtual Play Club.
Lois Reitzes talks with Scott Stewart about John Williams' score for the Star Wars films, actor Nick Offerman about his woodworking, and Emory professor and poet Jericho Brown about his latest book of poems, "The Tradition."
Lois Reitzes talks with Mara Davis about eating in Atlanta during the pandemic, musicians Alejandro Sifuentes and Jonathan Urizar about their band Mariachi Buhos de Oro, and author Mark Bittman about his cookbook "How To Grill Everything." Producer Summer Evans interviews Atlanta-based yoga instructor Eve Brown about practicing meditation and yoga during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lois Reitzes interviews Shuler Hensley and Angela Farr Schiller about the 2020 Shuler Awards going virtual as well as author Cathleen Schine about her book "The Grammarians."
Lois Reitzes talks with Leatrice Ellzy as well as artists Maurice Evans and Grace Kisa about "Nu Africans," a virtual exhibit coming to the Hammonds House, Chantelle Rytter about this year's Decatur Lantern Parade going "parade-in-place," as well as writer Jim Auchmutey about his book "Smoke Lore: A Short History of Barbeque in America."
Lois Reitzes gets book suggestions as Mother's Day gifts from author Alison Law, interviews Emory professor of Film and Media Studies Michele Schreiber about Hollywood classics that take on motherhood, and Rhonda Ross Kendrick talks about discovering her own voice in music.