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Hausladen and Zinn.
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Abdul-Shakoor and Shah.
Thursday’s programs on WNHH radio ask what 21st century transportation might look like, celebrate a New Haven faith center, continue to (loudly) debate the election, go to the movies, fill listeners in on LGBT news and comparative shop for church pews.
“Infrastructure Thursday” hosts Doug Hausladen and Giovanni Zinn welcome Kate Cohen, state director of the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group (ConnPIRG) and Melanie Perl, campaign organizer with Environmental Connecticut, to talk about Frontier Group’s study “50 Steps Toward Carbon-Free Transportation” and how Connecticut residents and policymakers can move toward a low-carbon, low-cost footprint over the next several years. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or check out WNHH’s “Elm City Lowdown” podcast.
Al Hajj Yusuf Ibn Shah and Yahya Abdul-Shakoor discuss the latest doings at the Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center and its annual community awards luncheon taking place this Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Best Western Inn at 201 Washington Ave. Today’s episode was made possible in part thanks to support from Yale-New haven Hospital. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or check out WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven” podcast.
On the latest installment of “Out & About,” host Melissa Loucks fills listeners in on the latest LGBT news around the country.To listen, click on or download the audio above.
“Culture Cocktail” host Alisa Bowens-Mercado brings on guests Mike Howard, TW Dawson, and Tonisha LaVonne Dawson to talk about president-elect Donald Trump’s win on Tuesday Nov. 8, and what people of color can expect from him over the next four years. During the latter half of the show, Howard also speaks about the importance of November as National Adoption Awareness Month. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
Let’s go to the movies! “Deep Focus” host Tom Breen and fellow WNHH hosts Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman review Hacksaw Ridge, a new World War II movie from director Mel Gibson that stars Andrew Garfield as American Army medic and battlefield conscientious objector Desmond Doss. Then Breen talks with Lyric Hall film programmer Joe Fay about his time working at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Dallas-Fort Worth and about two movies that have had a strong influence on his own understanding and love of cinema: Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slasher classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Joe Dante’s family-friendly 1989 horror-comedy The Burbs. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or check out the “Deep Focus” podcast.
It’s a round of “Dues from the Pews!” Welcome to This Day In Selling The Seats History as hosts Allan Appel andJason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to 1849, when rental of church pews figured as a big part of the revenue of our town’s ecclesiastical establishments. To listen, click on or download the audio above.