Tamsen and Dan Read the Paper

Episode 419: One Meal After Another

Hunkered down but getting out anyway.  High Spirits in NYC.  The Testament of Ann Lee at the movie theater.  One Battle After Another on the small screen.  More Inspiration from Kpop Demon Hunters.  Mourning the demise of the Department Store.  Metrocard Artists losing their supply.  Ellen Hughes: more than your average hockey mom.  New Restaurant models - loving The Dutchess (Ojai!). Amor Towles - stepping into the Jazz Age via Cole Porter and Ella (Fitzgerald).

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 418: A Very Snowy Day

We're having a REAL WINTER.  Hunkered down watching movies and reading the newspaper.  Lots to think about:  Kpop Demon Hunters bringing Korean culture to the world.  A World in the Making: The Shakers (exhibition) and The Testament of Ann Lee (movie).  A big book about Bennett Cerf by Gayle Feldman.  Wilbur Wood.  John Brody.  How Green Was My Valley. Songs by Sondheim.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 417: Beans and More

Rancho Gordo.  Yum.  Fun in NYC.  The Plague. Discovering Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible. Making Oboes.  The New Princeton University Art Museum.  Give Well.  

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 416: Welcome 2026!

Summing up the Holidays. Merchants of Joy, Xmas tree sellers documentary.  Marty Supreme. World's Largest Apron Museum.  Phyllis Lee Levin. Redwing Boots.  Remembering Annette, the last of the Dionne Quintuplets.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 415: Where are the Snails?

Another shocking French Heist.  Remembering Mel Leipzig. Colds at night.  Mary Ann Patten: first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.  Pizza business ups and downs.  Stewart Brand and The Maintenance of Everything.  The Family Bond of the NY Giants.  Self Driving Cars.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 414: Thanksgiving 2025

Looking back over a tasty time.  Musing on Broadway favorites, Tom Stoppard, Mary Poppins.  Pride and Pleasure by Amanda Vaille (Schuyler sisters). Bob Trumpy.  David Lerner (Tekserve).  Terry Martin Hekker (Disregard First Book).  Repair Cafés.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 413: Once in a Blue Moon

Looking at Lorenz Hart through Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.  The Dodgers do it again.  A Stuff Lending Library.  The Louvre Heist.  Paying your legal bills with your museum collection.  Playbill edges toward URL.  Wasp Nest decor.  Shelly Fireman.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 412: Where's the Whitefish?

More kvetching than kvelling at Saul Zabar's shiva.  Swedish tribute to Philly Skatepark.  Michael McRoberts: football strategist/debt collector.   Coca Leaves.  Blow your kitchen clean.  Rijksmuseum Dollhouse.  Milton Esterow.  Renato Casaro.  Toby Talbot.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 411: Dinosaurs for Sale

And they move... Harvard - attending class is optional.  James Grashow, cardboard sculptor.  Sad farewell to Georgia Brown's.  Saul Zabar. Lake Burping.  Jonathan Clements.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Episode 410: Looking for Fall

Happy Birthday Pepper.  Keeping the Deer Out.  Block Island Wind Farm.  Bjorn Borg tells his story.  Museum Update:  Fra Angelico/Rembrandt's Dog. Broadway Musicals lose money.  Dome Headed Dinosaur.  Cynthia Ozick.  Marian Burros and the Plum Torte.

Credits:

Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff

Engineer: Elizabeth Easton Aziz

Art:  Zeke Abuhoff