Modern Love Podcast: A Couple Walked to City Hall

2022 is the year of matrimania. Approximately 2.5 million weddings are expected (A lump not seen since 1984) and other trends are rising wildly — ceremonies for pets, weekday weddingsa revival epic puffy dresses. We are visiting again as the wedding business flourishes. Post by Pauline Miller About a tried-and-true approach from 2017: Tying the …

Radio Drama for the Podcast Age: How Amazon’s Audible Moved to the Theater

Another plus: Artists are paid more for recorded performances as well as personally staged ones. “The pay is great and the reach is great,” said Robert O’Hara, who planned the Williamstown production.A tram named Desire” was made to be voiced by Audible and went on to direct “Long Day’s Journey” on Minetta Lane and voice. …

Small Podcast Stores Surrounded by Big Tech Are Swimming With Sharks

last August, Leon Neyfakh He had a decision to make. Podcast production company Prologue Projects was working on the fifth season of the series.Fiasco” is a nonfiction narrative show about American scandals in living memory. Previous seasons of the show have been acclaimed for their gripping re-examinations of convoluted political conflicts – Bush v. Gore, …

Modern Love Podcast: When You Think You Know Your Parents

listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer “Why were my father and I such a couple when—in my memory at least—were so mismatched?” Credit…Christopher Silas Neal’s photo. Ariel Sabar was visiting her parents at her childhood home in California when she awoke one morning to shrill giggles coming from her parents’ room. …

‘Podcast Movies’? Extends the Feature Film Editing Environment

What do you call a podcast that offers one fictional story in 90 minutes? It may sound like a movie, but frankly, it isn’t. It is reminiscent of mid-century radio theatre, but without radio. “You could call it ‘feature podcasts,’ but it just seems so boring,” said Chris Corcoran, co-founder and chief executive officer of …

A New Podcast Reignites A Box Office Bomb

One day last December, Julie Salamon was rummaging through piles of old plastic bins in a lower Manhattan storage unit. Salamon, 68, is a journalist, writer, and describes himself as a “pack rat.” The boxes were accidental galleries in the museum of a life’s work, filled with relics—notebooks, clippings, photographs, and tapes—that have accumulated for …

Reggaeton’s History Is Complex. A New Podcast Helps Us Hear This

In the first part, the project unequivocally emphasizes the genre’s Afro-Caribbean origins and defiant beginnings: “For some people, reggaeton is just party music. But the real story of reggaeton is about la resistencia. Resistance,” Ivy Queen states sharply. “It’s about how we refuse to be quiet, young or poor, black or dark-skinned – children who …

Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s Podcast Will Become a Book

On “Renegades,” a podcast collaboration between Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, the former president admitted at a glance that it was an odd partnership. “Looks like Bruce and I don’t have much in common,” he said. “A white man from a small town in Jersey; I am a mixed race Black man born in Hawaii …