Cat Radio Café

December 30, 2002	Janet and David End-of-the-Year show with listener call-ins.
December 23, 2002	Jody Rosen's new primer on Irving Berlin's "White Chirstmas"; members of the cast of "The Exonerated" return from a performance forthe Governor of Illinois as part of the National Gathering of Death Row Exonerated; Charles Mingus's recipe for eggnog.
December 16, 2002	The cast of "Christmas at the Crawfords"; director Bob Balaban and members of the preoduction of "The Exonerated," live from Chicago where they will be performing for Governor George H. Ryan of Illinois as part of the "National Gathering of the Death Row Exonerated," sponsored by The Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University.
December 9, 2002	Return of the Bread and Puppet Theatre; poet April Bernard reads from her new volume "Swan Electric"; an excerpt from last week's CCCP.
December 2, 2002	Corin Redgrave now playing Benedict Arnold in "The General from America"; Ossie Davis, whose play "A Last Dance for Sybil," opens December 3, and stars Ruby Dee.
November 25, 2002	Robert Blumenfeld, author of "Accents: A Manual for Actors"; Knopf editor/publisher Victoria Wilson whose contested seat on the US Commission on Civil Rights was denied review by the Supreme Court.
November 18, 2002	Editors of two literary anthologies from The Library of America, "Writing New York" (Phillip Lopate) and "Writing Los Angeles" (David L. Ulin); news from the CCCP and new comrade comedian Liam McEneaney.
November 11, 2002	Russell Martin, author of "Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, And The Masterpiece That Changed the World"; a production of Shakespeare's "Henry V" set in Vietnam; a new theatre magazine, "On and Off."
November 4, 2002	Francine Prose on her new book, "The Lives of the Muses"; a man and his muse: Peruvian restaurant Lima's Taste; "Shoot Me," a controversial installation by Korean artist Miyoung Song.
October 28, 2002	Pre-empted
October 21, 2002	Pre-empted
October 14, 2002 Coming Soon!	2-hour fundraiser on improvisational theatre with great premiums from the CCCP and the Janet & David rare book stash!!! Tune in!!! Pledge!!!
October 7, 2002	Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca on "American Vernacular Sculpture"; Naropa's Bobbie Louise Hawkins comes to Joe's Pub; a new Colin McPherson play; Janet and David on Beckett's "Happy Days."
September 30, 2002	Biographer TJ Stiles takes a new look at "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War"; Randy Sharpe and the Axis Theatre re-interpret Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
September 23, 2002	Comedienne/philosopher Emily Levine on "Common Cents: A New Show About Intellectual Property" (playing at 8:15pm at the The 92nd Street Y); world class banjoist and fiddler Tom Paley, appearing next weekend at the Park Slope Old Time/Blue Grass Jamboree; Janet and David on Judy Chicago, Botanical Gardens and Howard Zinn.
September 23, 2002	comedienne/philosopher Emily Levine on "Common Cents: A New Show About Intellectual Property" (playing at 8:15pm at the The 92nd Street Y); world class banjoist and fiddler Tom Paley, appearing next weekend at the Park Slope Old Time/Blue Grass Jamboree; Janet and David on Judy Chicago, Botanical Gardens and Howard Zinn.
September 16, 2002	Julie Otsuka and her new novel, "When The Emperor Was Divine," about a Japanese-American family in a World War II detention camp; playwright Richard Maxwell and actors from "Joe," his latest work at PS 122.
September 9, 2002	Feminist/journalist/memoirist Vivian Gornick on a benefit for her brainchild THEA (The House of Elder Artists); author Roberta Allen on "The Playful Way to Serious Writing"; excerpts from the August edition of the CCCP.
September 9, 2002	feminist/journalist/memoirist Vivian Gornick on a benefit for her brainchild THEA (The House of Elder Artists); author Roberta Allen on "The Playful Way to Serious Writing"; excerpts from the August edition of the CCCP.
September 2, 2002	Pre-empted
August 26, 2002	Author Gabe Hudson's searing new Gulf War stories and novella "Dear Mr. President"; Jonathan Slaff, Chairman of Government Outreach Committee on Downtown NYC After 9/11; "Sub-Basement Bush" from the CCCP comedy hour on WBAI.
August 19, 2002	The Aquila Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors"; John Dileo's new book on "100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember."
August 12, 2002	An asortment of plays from the 6th Annual NYC Fringe Festival; restauranteur Florent with news of the Save the Gansvoort Market campaign.
August 5, 2002	Fundraising on the Theme of "Homeland Security"; and, on the 40th anniversary of MM's death, Yona Zeldis McDonough, editor of "All The Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader."
July 29, 2002	Author Jerome Charyn's new memoir "Bronx Boy"; painter Simon Dinnerstein on "Summer in the City," a new show at ACA Galleries; "gaggles, flocks and covies; further, exaltations and murders: a bird show" at Ricco/Maresca Gallery.
July 22, 2002	Jerri Allyn's site specific installation "A Chair is a Throne is a Freedom Fighter's Camp Stool"; the Deep Ellum Ensemble does Gertrude Stein"s "Saints and Singing"; a British theatre emsemble's silent comedy, "The Hush."
July 15, 2002	Regina Weinreich, author of "Kerouac's Spontaneous Fiction"; Mike Feder on spontaneous radio (Listen to this Interview); Janet and David on "Too Much Stuff."
July 8, 2002	Janet and David go to a Westbeth art gallery; author Elizabeth Nunez, co-founder of the National Black Writers Conference, on her novel "Discretion"; composer Richard Peaslee.
June 24, 2002	Janet and David visit a Wall Street sculpture exhibit; author Jane deLynn's shocking new transgressive novel, "Leash"; and the 6th Annual Queer@Here Festival, featuring "Lesbian Pulp-a-Rama."
June 17, 2002	Janet and David go to the theatre; Al Young reflects on June Jordan; Geoffrey O'Brien's new collection of essays "Castaways of the Image Planet"; Playback Theatre at the Hip Hop Festival; and solo artist Sara Jones.
June 10, 2002	Yoko Ono on the artists' role post 9/11; Reverend Billy on "Other Love," his new solo show with trombone; and "Memory and Metaphor," an exhibition of Lower Manhattan artists and children remembering those lost on 9/ll.
June 5, 2002	author/screeenwriter Caryl Phillips' new book "A New World Order"; Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan's dual memoir of New York in the '50's, "Back Then"; castmembers of group directed "Placebo Sunrise."
May 29, 2002	Ishmael Reed and other winners of the Otto Awards for Political Theatre; the final JD Salinger reel.
May 22, 2002	Pre-empted
(SPECIAL) May 20, 2002	5-Hour Marathon Special - LIVE from the OBIE Awards at Webster Hall
May 15, 2002	2-Hour Marathon - J.D. Salinger Fundraising Special
May 8, 2002	Pre-empted
May 1, 2002	Author Marnie Mueller on her book "My Mother's Island" and filmmaker Ismail Merchant on his new film "The Mystic Masseur."
April 24, 2002	Sue Graham Mingus's new book "Tonight at Noon: A Love Story" (and a new Charles Mingus CD of the same name); and Carl Hancock Rux on his sensational new play, "Talk."
April 17, 2002	Reno returns - a new play, "Swimming With Watermelons."
April 10, 2002	Melvin Jules Bukiet and others on "Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors"; Michael Feingold on his new translation of Max Frisch's "Andorra."
April 3, 2002	Paleontolgist Peter Ward and painter Alexis Rockman on "Future Evolution" - actors from the Public Theatre's new play "36 Views"
March 27, 2002	Author Ben Marcus - a Seder with the Dada NYNYDada Theatre Company -artist/playwright Charles Mingus III, contrabassist Kevin Ellington MIngus
March 20, 2002	Photographer Laurie Toby Edison on her collection of male nudes - CCCP players
March 13, 2002	Painter Robert Cenedella - an exhibit of the Asian American Women Artists Alliance - Canadian anti-war play "Warriors"
March 6, 2002	Playwrights and Directors on The Short Play - Remembering Leonard Melfi
February 27, 2002	Frank Maresca on Industrial Renderings as Art - the Pen and Brush Club
February 20, 2002	2-Hour Marathon - Crystal Field - Jack Agueros - Elizabeth Ruf - $8250 for WBAI
February 13, 2002	3-Hour Marathon - CCCP players - Mike Feder - Puffin Room Photography Exhibit - Everyone
February 6, 2002	Pre-empted
January 30, 2002	Lee Breuer of Mabou Mines - Lisa Levy Psychotherapy Live
January 23, 2002	Cymbeline - Tenement Museum
January 16, 2002	Christmas Coup Comedy Players (CCCP) - artists formerly know as "Bunker Time Players"
January 9, 2002	book: "Jews of Brooklyn" - Sean Galvin Cradeaux Alexander - 2 Plays of Heiner Muller, Denis Moynihan, Anthony Sloane, Austin, Listener Calls The Communications Act of 1934
January 2, 2002	Cornelius Eady, Composer Dierdre Murray, Diane Paulus collaborating on Eady's book of poetry "Brutal Imagination" Poet Mark Strand on Edward Hopper