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Before DeWanda Wise took the lead role of Nola Darling in Spike Lee’s Netflix revival of his 1986 film She’s Gotta Have It, she had a storied career which ranged from cutting her teeth on the theater scene in New York to auditioning for roles in Avatar and Children of Men. Wise stopped by the New Hollywood Podcast before heading…

TalkTales the Podcast is a glimpse into the worlds of the people who keep our glasses filled June 22, 2018 Lisa Beebe comedy, Drinking, Pop Culture Over the course of the roughly ten years she’s been bartending, Shana Race has swapped a lot of stories with other bartenders. Some are funny, others are touching—but each…

“Barry” co-creators Bill Hader and Alec Berg talk to IndieWire about building a dark, violent show that played off the audience’s expectation of Hader as a lovable comedian. When Bill Hader first moved to Los Angeles after graduating college, he was going west to pursue his dream of becoming a serious filmmaker, not a comedian….

Charles Asbury. (Debbie Trice) In December 2010, a mysterious banjo tune popped up on a website devoted to early recordings. Even by that definition, this song stood out. It dated to when Grover Cleveland occupied the White House, opening with a crackle before the steady voice of Charles Asbury introduces himself and his performance of…

It’s a bit of a surreal dream, that two or three people crowded around one microphone in a cupboard could capture the attention of people halfway across the world. There might have been a time when it seemed podcasting was going to be a passing fad, but now there’s My Dad Wrote a Porno and the Guilty…