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News

Marketplace

Week of December 14

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks to Tim Cadogan, CEO of GoFundMe, about what fundraising trends the company is seeing as this pandemic continues and if fundraising campaigns might be serving to fill as Congress continues to debate the next round of relief.
• What is it like being a new business owner on the cusp of yet another seismic change in your industry? Marketplace’s Marielle Segarra spends time with one new restaurant owner.
• The last Federal Reserve meeting of the year is next week. Kai talks with Robert Kaplan, FOMC member and Dallas Fed President, about the economic recovery.

Marketplace Tech

• December 14: As millions of Americans remain unemployed, a wave of virtual evictions is happening all over the country. These hearings are done over Zoom, Webex or sometimes over the phone in order to limit the spread of COVID-19 in courtrooms, but some tenants advocates say that they are not doing enough to preserve their clients’ rights. We speak with MIT Tech Review reporter Eileen Guo.

Classical

Performance Today

• December 10-18: Hanukkah music featured every day.
• December 15: Music featured from favorite holiday movies including Home Alone and Miracle on 34th Street.
• December 16: This is Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday (we think) and Performance Today will highlight a few of his major compositions, contemporary compositions inspired by Beethoven from around the world and a little more context why we don’t know his exact birthday.
• December 17: This entire hour will feature music for wintry meditation. The show will be an opportunity to slow down and find connections while we are apart.

Arts and Culture

NEW: Time Machine from The Current

Time Machine from The Current is a sonic journey across music history. Each week, host Bill DeVille takes you back to the sounds of a specific year with a carefully curated list of the best songs. Plus, he’ll invite you to reexamine some deeper cuts as we look back on what happened that year in music, pop culture and the world.

December 18: 2005

• The year Kanye West and Gorillaz both dropped their 2nd albums. Coldplay issued their 3rd, while John Prine checked in with his 1st new album in 6 years. In the indie rock world Clap Your Hands Say Yeah set the blogosphere on fire with their debut album and Spoon released one of their best works. Outside the world of music, George W Bush begins his 2nd term, London was struck with its own 9/11 as a series of coordinated bomb attacks killed 52, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast killing almost 1,800 and leaving 80% of New Orleans submerged, and the Chicago White Sox win their first world series since WWI. Platform flip flops were a thing, tennis visors were a legit fashion choice and you probably listened to music on CD or maybe your Ipod. Your favorites song might have even been your ringtone on your cellphone – if you owned one! 

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, please follow the program’s updates on Twitter and encourage listeners to send in their questions as voice memos to contact@splendidtable.org, or via phone at 800-537-5252.  

NEW episode – December 18:

• We’re getting ready for the holidays with the culinary Queen herself, Ina Garten. Her new book is Modern Comfort Food.
• Food 52’s Kristen Miglore brings in some of her favorite Genius recipes of the year. Her new podcast is Genius Recipe Tapes.

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