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Advertisement It’s quite amusing hearing veteran music journalist/author Danyel Smith wax poetic about her favorite Black music on this podcast, a joint operation from Spotify and The Ringer. Since the series’ debut in February, Smith has used Songbook to salute many R&B divas past and present, often sounding like a spirited auntie at a family reunion. (The podcast is basically an audio companion to her upcoming book on Black women in pop music.) For this episode, she gives it up to the ladies who’ve sung tunes that were also hits for other sistas down the line, like “I’m Goin’ Down,” the Norman Whitfield-produced song by Rose Royce (fronted by the beguiling Gwen Dickey), which later became a hit for a young Mary J. Blige. But this ep is really a chance for Smith to chat with Karyn White, the songstress best known for the ’80s adult-contemporary anthem “Superwoman” (Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, and Dionne Warwick once joined forces for an epic co ....
Advertisement Sam Sanders’ NPR show is a low-key program that isn’t aiming for the prestige podcast pocket, so in a way, it’s the perfect counterprogramming to Reply All’s “Test Kitchen” series on the so-called racial reckoning at Bon Appétit (a series that was, ironically, canceled halfway through its run after Reply All itself faced a similar reckoning). In this episode, Sohla El-Waylly, former BA chef and now the star of Off-Script With Sohla, speaks candidly with Sanders about her decision to resign from BA last summer, insisting that her actions have not led to real change, just real conversation, which is only the tip of the iceberg. “Don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself to try and change something that’s been a problem for hundreds of years,” Sohla advises. Instead, “fight for one story at a time” and make a difference on an individual level. Sanders, meanwhile, speaks to the “crazy-making” that can result fr ....
The 2020 Jim Ridley Film Poll Dedicated to late Scene editor and critic Jim Ridley, our poll asks critics, cinephiles and industry insiders about 2020 in film Tweet First Cow Given the chaos and enervating travails of 2020, it was going to be a challenge to find the right assortment of folks to get at the heart of this unpredictable year in cinema. An international assemblage of critics, filmmakers, podcasters, teachers, actors, exhibitors, publicists, festival programmers, artists and even a beloved horror host stepped up to get hierarchical and reflective. We do this every year in honor of the late, great Jim Ridley, who believed strongly in the value of conversations about film. So buckle up, it’s a wild ride ahead. ....