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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Santa Claus

December 29, 2019 Amy Young Ashley Naftule Dan Schwartz Featured Articles It's Not Our Fault Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

On this edition of It’s Not Our Fault, the team welcomes a very special guest to the Radio Phoenix studios: Santa! Yep, that jolly dude has been real busy but he’s taking a break so that Tom and Amy can get inside his head, pick his brain, and find out what this Claus guy is all about. Is he really as jolly as you think? Hear the Xmas music Santa loves, along with holiday tunes that he hates. Make sure to tune in and check out the complete playlist below…

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Confessions from the Nocturne Nebula: Episode Four – Chasing a Gut Shot Straight

October 26, 2019 Ashley Naftule Carly Schorman Confessions from the Nocturne Nebula Dale I. Rasmussen Devin Morris Featured Articles Mark Anderson Podcast

Thanks for tuning in to the latest installment of Confessions from the Nocturne Nebula: Chasing a Gut Shot Straight. In this episode, Zarah learns of Cherry’s fate. Nolan Stone loses something important. Steps are retraced. Flynn Morgan makes friendly conversation. A search for a needle through a space-station-sized haystack ends with an unexpected and unwelcome visitor..

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The Canterbury Tarot at Aside Theatre Company

October 23, 2019 Arts & Culture Ashley Naftule Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

The Canterbury Tarot is a new play by local playwright Ashley Naftule, whose other works include Ear and The First Annual Bookburners Convention. It is a mashup of Chaucer’s classic novel “The Canterbury Tales” and characters from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s tarot deck. Our players converge in an inn that sits in the shadow of Canterbury Cathedral, sharing stories as they make their pilgrimage. Motivations unfolding as interactions do…

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Prizefighting Kangaroo Episode 10: Whit’s Up! — Movies Directed by Whit Stillman

June 5, 2019 Amy Young Ashley Naftule Featured Articles Podcast Prizefighting Kangaroo Tom Reardon

In our continued celebration of directors in 2019, for this episode we’ve invited a guest — Phoenix-based journalist Tom Reardon — to join us to chat about one of his favorite directors, Whit Stillman. With only seven movies under his directorship, Stillman hasn’t been terribly prolific but he has managed to maintain a following and create opinions about his movies that often follow the lives of young, rich kids in NYC. Let’s just say not everyone in this convo holds the same level of fandom… of the director and of socialites…

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Prizefighting Kangaroo Episode 09: Later Days – Movies Directed by Richard Linklater

April 9, 2019 Amy Young Ashley Naftule Featured Articles Podcast Prizefighting Kangaroo

On this episode of PFK, Ashley and Amy examine a variety of movies made with Richard Linklater in the director’s chair. From 1990s Slacker to recent endeavors like Boyhood and Everybody Wants Some, the team talks about his work and brilliance in bringing unusual characters and scenarios to life. And, for some reason, a tangent that compares his work with Kevin Smith’s…

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