What’s coming up from APM May 24-30

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.

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News

Marketplace

Marketplace PM

Week of May 24

  • Kai tours a centralized ghost kitchen in Pasadena, CA operated by Kitchen United.
  • Kai talks with Ellen Weinreb of the Weinreb Group about how the role of Chief Sustainability Officers is changing.

Marketplace Tech

  • May 24: Last year, tech companies made big promises about improving their culture. Microsoft, for example, said it would spend $150M on diversity efforts and would double the number of Black leaders by 2025; Google said it would increase Black leaders by 30% by 2025. What concrete steps to improve company culture are recommended, and did the big tech companies take them?
  • May 25: Act One Ventures partner Alejandro Guerrero spearheaded an effort last year for venture capitalists to commit to including diversity riders in their boilerplate contracts. Since then, 50 firms are using the rider, up from 10, and it’s been used in hundreds of deals.

On Point

  • Boston Globe senior opinion writer Kimberly Atkins hosts On Point May 24-26, and WBUR senior political reporter Anthony Brooks hosts May 27-28.
  • May 24: As we mark one year since the murder of George Floyd, historian Elizabeth Hinton joins The Boston Globe’s Kimberly Atkins to talk about her call for a sweeping reconsideration of how we think about racial unrest in America. Hinton is the author of a new book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.
  • May 27: U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks with WBUR’s Anthony Brooks about America’s school reopening challenges. What will ‘back to school’ look like across the U.S.?

Classical

Performance Today

May 26: Valerie Kahler (in for Fred Child) will read listeners’ dedications to 2021 graduates throughout the Performance Today broadcast.


Arts and Culture

Time Machine from The Current

Time Machine from The Current is a sonic journey across music history. Each week, host Bill DeVille takes listeners back to the sounds and events of a specific year.

May 28 – 1995:

Foo Fighters dropped their debut (though it was more of a Dave Grohl solo album), there were firsts from D’Angelo & the band Garbage., and Oasis and Alanis Morrissette were 2 of the year’s phenoms. Bjork revived a song from 1951 for her biggest hit yet, the alt-country movement was thriving with debuts from both Wilco and Son Volt and Tracy Chapman had a bluesy hit.

Outside the world of music, Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games played record, the Houston Rockets featuring Clyde Drexler & Hakeem Olajuwon swept Orlando for the NBA title, it was the Dallas Cowboys over the Pittsburgh Steelers to win Super Bowl #30, and the “Trial of the Century” involving O.J. Simpson begins. ER was the top show on TV, and Batman Forever starring Val Kilmer was the top film.

The Splendid Table

Encore episode – May 28: Kitchen tools

  • Tim Hayward tells us about the tools that have surprisingly changed our lives. His book is The Modern Kitchen.
  • Quintin Middleton of Middleton Made Knives shares how he designs a great chef’s knife.
  • We talk to Ruth Ades-Laurent about her father, the legendary Joseph Ades, also known as the “Gentleman Peeler” who made millions selling vegetable peelers on the streets of New York City
  • America’s Test Kitchen brings us the best of their reader’s kitchen tool hacks.

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