Nat Geo Launches THE SOUL OF MUSIC Podcast Series National Geographic will commemorate Black History Month with its flagship podcast, Overheard, through a month-long, four-part series of episodes focused on music and exploration featuring influential Black musicians and accomplished National Geographic Explorers. The weekly series, THE SOUL OF MUSIC, premiered on February 7 and drops every Tuesday through February…

A new podcast series from The Athletic, dives into what it means to be Black in the N.F.L., and explains how race impacts each level of the league’s organization chart. The show is called Between the Lines. In this five-part miniseries, host Tashan Reed, a staff writer for The Athletic…

Talkhouse’s Noble Champions & That’s How Remember It with Craig Finn podcasts return for second seasons The season two debut of That’s How I Remember It with Craig Finn, Each episode will feature a discussion between Craig Finn and one creator — a musician, author, filmmaker, etc. — about the role that memory plays in their art. These conversations will reveal the different ways each creator…

With perfectly manicured lawns dominating the suburban landscape, you would think that suburban prisoners would have abdicated the throne of houseplant supremacy to urban Millennials. However, for the overly competitive brats in the suburbs, houseplant preeminence was payback for all those outrageous tolls cities erected so those suburban commuters could…

There are two genres, where many of the top podcasts began their media journey as a radio show and then added podcasting later on. First, we have conservative talk shows, where turning Americans against one another has been elevated to an art form. You can play a drinking game and…

I’m watching a rerun of the TV show Alias on Amazon Prime. The thriller was last broadcast in 2006 with first-run episodes, but like a lot of TV shows, it has been resurrected for near immortality in the fertile soil of TV rerun land. This example shows how TV has…

What podcast made me think this week? It’s Playing Anne Frank, a new podcast released on January 24. Using archival material and interviews with surviving cast and crew members, executive editor of the Jewish weekly publication, Forward, Adam Langer presents a story that’s never been told: the backstory of “The…

Author: Christopher P. Jones Rating: Four out of Four Claude Monet waterlilies Ease Of Reading: 80 pages. The author’s words paint a wonderfully chromatic canvas for interpreting great art throughout history. When To read: After your retired father insists that art is “woke, a waste of time, and only attracts…

Sadly, gender classification has become a weapon of crass destruction by those who breathe intolerance and excrete grievance. But how about genre classification? Some podcasts don’t neatly fit into the genre categories defined by Apple, Spotify, or other podcast feeds. That’s the story of the Lore podcast. Is it in…