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07/09/2024

MON. 7/29 at 7pm: We’re teaming up with for a screening of the doc “The Queen of Versailles,” followed by a conversation with director and , book writer for the new inspired by the film. Radio Boston host .dearing moderates.

The 2012 film follows the quixotic quest of billionairess Jackie Siegel, wife of “The Timeshare King” David Siegel, to build the largest home in America, inspired by the Palace of Versailles. Get ready to ask all your questions about the original film and its subjects, plus get some scoop on the new musical which reunites Oscar-winning songwriter Stephen Schwartz and Tony and Emmy-award winner Kristin Chenoweth as Jackie.

Get your tickets at the link in bio!

07/08/2024

FRI. 7/26 at 7pm: , America’s longest-running (probably) bad movie podcast, is coming to Boston!

Elliott Kalan (former writer for “Mystery Science Theater 3000,”) Dan McCoy (former writer for “The Daily Show”) and Stuart Wellington (owner, Hinterlands Bar) are three best friends who’ve spent the past 17 years watching critical or commercial flops, and then dissecting them for listeners — with a combination of insightful cinematic analysis and digressive comedic nonsense that The New York Times calls them “a great listen for movie fans.”

In-person tickets are sold out but livestream tickets are available. Get them at the link in bio.

07/03/2024

SAT. 7/20 at 6:30pm: producer Kalyani Saxena moderates a conversation with about her latest book “The Au Pair Affair,” a sports rom-com where a burly, surly, single dad falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky live-in nanny. 🏒💓🥅

Copies of the book will be available for purchase from and Bailey will sign following the conversation.

Tickets available at the link in bio.

07/02/2024

TUES. 7/16 at 6:30pm: With National Cheese and Wine Day coming on July 25th, now is a great time to learn some tricks and tips for making a beautiful cheese board arrangement. Join us for a grazing board arranging workshop led by Kimi Ceridon, owner of .

We’ll use three delicious American artisanal cheeses alongside other locally-made accompaniments to create a delectable, American artisanal cheese board. Let us introduce you to your new favorite local cheese. 🧀

Limited tickets remain! Get yours at the link in bio.

07/01/2024

MON. 7/15 at 6:30pm: , host of , moderates a conversation with chef about his new cookbook “Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes.”

You might have first discovered the delicious dishes by Kung from his wildly popular social posts, which demonstrate a deeply personal approach to cooking. His “third-culture” food journey has origins in being born in Los Angeles and raised in Hong Kong and Toronto, but stems from a fateful decision turning away from law school toward a passion for cooking creative cuisine that blurs lines and enriches taste buds.

Copies of the cookbook will be available for purchase from and Kung will sign after the conversation.

06/26/2024

WEDS. 7/10 at 7pm: news analyst Jack Beatty is bringing his weekly podcast “The Jackpod” to CitySpace for a special live taping. In each episode, Beatty offers his unique perspective and insight on aspects of our ever more complex world, intertwining history, literature, politics and more.

On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti will join Beatty for the live show to explore Jack’s illuminating observation of the week. And, they’ll answer all your burning questions.

Tickets available at the link in bio.

06/21/2024

WEDS. 6/26 at 7:00pm: co-host Scott Tong moderates a conversation with diplomatic correspondent Edward Wong about his memoir, “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

After 13 years abroad reporting from dozens of countries, Wong has turned his attention to the story of his family’s epic journey from China. The book covers more than 80 years of the life of his family, while also grappling with modern-day China’s global expansionist vision and economic wealth.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and Wong will sign following the conversation.

Tickets at the link in bio.

06/20/2024

TOMORROW at 7pm: The Crossword Show returns for the Boston debut performance of Puzzle #1: “MiC Holders.” Host presides as guest comedians and solve an actual crossword puzzle live onstage, with everything displayed on our screen so you can follow along.

As the solvers decipher the clues, Sherwin takes the show down rabbit holes of comedy, music, wordplay and trivia, all inspired by the answer words. Everything ties together at the end for a grand finale that’s as satisfying as it is mind-blowing.

Tickets at the link in bio!

06/19/2024

TOMORRROW at 7:00pm: host Meghna Chakrabarti sits down with podcasts senior producer and host Amory Sivertson for a conversation about the making of Beyond All Repair, a true crime podcast about a woman trying to shed herself of a 22 year-old murder accusation.

They’ll be joined by , editor of Beyond All Repair and executive producer HBO’s “The Jinx,” to share trial footage, interview clips and stories about the wrangling of this complex series and the challenges involved in reporting on people accused of deception and violence. We’ll also take YOUR questions.

The evening will be punctuated by live performances of original music from the series. Tickets at the link in bio.

06/13/2024

TOMORROW at 7pm: Join us for an evening of live salsa music, dancing and community with ¡Con Salsa! host .masso.

Start the evening by learning the basics in a beginner salsa lesson taught by ’s Johnny Giraldo. After the lesson, José will kick things off and we’ll dance the night away to the sounds of .

Limited tickets remain at the link in bio.

06/06/2024

NEXT THURS. 6/13 at 7pm: senior producer Emiko Tamagawa sits down with to discuss “The Friday Afternoon Club,” his memoir of growing up in Hollywood and Manhattan set among larger-than-life characters, including his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne, his father Vanity Fair reporter Dominick Dunne and his best friend Carrie Fisher.

Dunne has been an actor, producer, and director since the late 70s. Among his work, he produced and starred in “After Hours,” directed by Martin Scorsese, and he directed the documentary “The Center Will Not Hold” about Didion.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase from . Dunne will sign following the conversation.

06/05/2024

Zach Sherwin returns to CitySpace for the fifth time on Friday, June 21. to host another round of The Crossword Show! 🎉 Comedians Bethany van Delft and Will Smalley will join to help solve the Boston debut of Puzzle #1: “MiC Holders” live onstage, with everything displayed on our screen so you can follow along.

This is one of our favorite events every year and we promise it’ll blow your mind! Get your tickets before they sell out here: https://wbur.fm/3vGy5OJ

05/31/2024

NEXT FRI. 6/7 at 7pm: and return to CitySpace for another live taping of their hit podcast “Vibe Check,” where they make sense of what’s going on in news and culture — and how it all feels.

Limited tickets remain. Join the kiki while there’s still time! ✨⏰✨ Link in bio.

05/30/2024

🚨 We just released a small batch of tickets for The Moth Mainstage next Thurs. June 6 at 7:30pm !

The Moth Mainstage is the quintessential experience: a two-act show —featuring a musical act— where five storytellers and a notable host share true personal stories, without notes that are recorded for future episodes of The Moth Podcast and Moth Radio Hour.

Snag these tickets before they’re gone - once they’re gone there won’t be more! Link in bio.

05/29/2024

NEXT WEDS. 6/5 at 7pm: senior political reporter Anthony Brooks emcees an evening inspired by his series The Third Act, which profiles people who worked full careers and re-invented themselves later in life, often in surprising and inspirational ways. He will be joined by founder Bill McKibben, founder Julieanna Richardson and Lyn Slater.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist will perform during the show. Copies of Slater’s book, “How to Be Old” will be available for purchase from . and Slater will sign following the conversation.

Tickets at the link in bio. Event made possible with support from Boston College Companions and Linguistica 360.

05/28/2024

NEXT TUES. 6/4 at 7pm: Darryl C. Murphy, host of , moderates a conversation with , chef and co-owner of and the only Massachusetts finalist for Best Chef: Northeast at this year’s awards.

Named after Dennehy’s daughter, Talulla is a small Cambridge restaurant with twelve tables that is a reflection of family memories. Learn more about the food philosphy of Dennehy and his wife and sommelier Danielle Ayer, plus sample a chilled strawberry rhubarb soup free the restaurant before the Bears Awards are decided on June 10 in Chicago.

Tickets at the link in bio. Event co-produced by .

05/22/2024

NEXT THURS. 5/30 at 7pm: , ’s ideas and opinions page, will present an evening of readings, performances and conversations with Boston leaders about the concept of home – including what it means to live in Boston and find your place in it.

Radio Boston host .dearing will emcee the evening featuring and more.

Tickets at the link in bio. Event made possible with support from New England Aquarium.

05/21/2024

TOMORROW at 6:30pm: Join us for *FREE* plant night with , entrepreneur and owner of . She will lead a plant care clinic with stations dedicated to everything from tips for repotting, drainage, propagation and more. Bring you suffering plants for a little help from Emerald City on how to revive them or come ready to find a new plant friend.

Emerald City will have new plants, tools and more available for purchase. They’ll also have friends in the house too! will be serving samples and other goodies available for purchase and Birthlooms will have prints for sale.

Free tickets at the link in bio.

05/19/2024

TOMORROW at 7pm: hosts LIVE with . 🎉

Don’t miss your chance to experience how an episode of this amazing podcast comes together before the final version hits the ear-waves!👂🏾❤️

Hirway will interview Fenne Lily about the making of and motivations behind one of her biggest songs before she performs at the end of show.

Tickets at the link in bio.

05/06/2024

🚨 is coming to CitySpace in 2 weeks! Join host for a live taping of his hit podcast where musicians take apart their songs and, piece by piece, share the story of how they were made.

British folk singer-songwriter will join Hirway to break down one of her hit songs, what it means to her and what inspired it. She’ll also perform during the show.

Tickets at the link in bio.

05/03/2024

Next FRI. 5/10 at 7pm: We’re joining forces with THEE as part of our Sound On concert series to bring you a special evening of local music before the Festival takes over the Harvard Athletic Complex later this month.

Headlining the show is seven-time Boston Music Award-winning , a proud country band from Scituate who have toured across the U.S. and Europe and just released their ninth LP, “South Shore.”

Joining them for the show are multi-genre vocalist and songwriter and who recently received a standing ovation on “America’s Got Talent.”

Don’t miss this intimate evening celebrating amazing local artists before Boston Calling kicks off May 24-26. Tickets at the link in bio.

05/01/2024

TONIGHT! We are proud to be a presenting sponsor of the 2024 Independent Film Festival Boston (), returning to and from May 1-8.

Make to sure to look out for our team at opening and closing nights - we’ll be giving away GOODIES! And some of our hosts and reporters including and .wuthmann will be moderating post-film Q&As.

Tickets are on sale now! The full Festival lineup and list of moderated films can be found at the link in bio.

04/30/2024

MON. 5/6 at 6:30pm: Join , James Beard Award-winning co-founder of and .co, for a conversation with , co-founder and chef which was recently named one of Bon Appetit’s Best New Restaurants of 2023.

Louie, his co-founder and wife Rary Ratsifa, and the Rubato team have been building on a long culinary tradition in the heart of Quincy, MA. The space was once home to Contempo, the beloved bakery owned by Louie’s mother. Rubato expands on traditional Hong Kong and Cantonese comfort food with fresh ideas including a popular fried chicken bolo sandwich and Nutella filled Hong Kong french toast.

Guests will enjoy pork and veggie baos from Rubato after the conversation. Tickets at the link in bio.

04/25/2024

TONIGHT at 6:30pm: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian sits down with co-host Robin Young to discuss her latest book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”

In the book, Goodwin takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband Richard (Dick) embarked upon in the last years of his life, as they opened over 300 boxes of letters, documents, diaries and memorabilia illuminating public and private moments of a decade with key figures of that era.

In-person tickets are *SOLD OUT* but livestream tickets are available. Link in bio.

04/24/2024

FRI. 4/26 at 6:30pm: Join us for a conversation with Leah Penniman, a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother and food justice activist who serves as founding co-ED and Farm Director of .

Located in Grafton, NY, Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. The farm leads training programs for Black, Latinx and Indigenous aspiring growers and works to dismantle racism in the food system through a low cost fresh food delivery service for people living under food apartheid.

assistant manager editor for climate and environment Kathleen Masterson moderates. Copies of Penniman’s books will be available for purchase from and she will sign following the conversation.

Tickets at the link in bio.

04/22/2024

THIS WEDS! The sequel to our blockbuster choose your own adventure 🤝🏾 disaster movies event is just two days away and we need some brilliant scientists to help us save the world - and maybe even Jake Gyllenhaal in the process!

Join us for Choose Your Own Disaster, an interactive, multimedia showstopper of an event to discover whether Hollywood’s depictions of climate change and environmental threats are even slightly accurate.

Tickets at the link in bio. Happy ! 🌎 🌱 🌳

04/20/2024

Tues. 4/23 at 6:30 pm: Reptiles and amphibians will take center stage at CitySpace! At this event, you’ll learn how conservationists are working to reintroduce rare marbled salamanders — which have hatched for the first time in almost a century in the Middlesex Fells. You’ll also hear about ’s award-winning efforts to “headstart” Blanding’s turtle hatchlings.

The evening will include pictures, video and a live demonstration of how researchers radio-track turtles in an effort that helps to protect nests. climate and environment correspondent Barbara Moran moderates andyou’ll get to meet some turtles in person!

Tickets at the link in bio.

04/18/2024

🗣️ Attention parents! Looking for a MEGA AWESOME outing for your kids? Join us this weekend for our annual children’s podcast festival Sat. 4/20 and Sun. 4/21.

Whether your child wants to understand how to tell what’s true from what’s false, learn about important people in history, discover how plants and animals adapt to Spring, hear stories from Ancient Greece and folktales from around the world or laugh at sketch comedy, we have it all with live performances from , ’s Greeking Out, and .

Please note: in-person tickets for Circle Round and Greeking Out are *SOLD OUT* but livestream tickets are available.

More details on the lineup and access to tickets at the link in bio.

04/16/2024

TOMORROW at 7:00pm: we’re hosting a live taping of , the James Beard Award-winning podcast hosted by Dan Pashman. Pashman will be joined by , editor-in-chief of Cook’s Illustrated and cast member of “America’s Test Kitchen,” for a conversation celebrating of Pashman’s first cookbook, “Anything’s Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes For Saucy People.”

In-person tickets are *SOLD OUT* but livestream tickets are available at the link in bio.

Event in partnership with .

04/11/2024

TOMORROW at 7:00pm: Before the running world turns its gaze on the 128th Boston Marathon and join us for a live taping of their podcast “Nobody Asked Us with Des and Kara.”

Linden, the 2018 Boston Marathon champion and Goucher, World Athletics Championships silver medalist and podium finisher in Boston, will share their hot takes about all things running with a little bit of life-stuff sprinkled in too.

In-person tickets are *SOLD OUT* but livestream tickets are available at the link in bio.

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Zach Sherwin returns to CitySpace for the fifth time on Friday, June 21. to host another round of The Crossword Show! 🎉 Comedians Bethany van Delft and Will Smalley will join to help solve the Boston debut of Puzzle #1: “MiC Holders” live onstage, with everything displayed on our screen so you can follow along. This is one of our favorite events every year and we promise it’ll blow your mind! Get your tickets before they sell out here: https://wbur.fm/3vGy5OJ

This Thurs. 3/24 at 7pm ET: Join us for an evening with Veronica Robles, mariachi singer, founder of the first female mariachi band in Boston, cultural icon for Latinos in Boston and an ambassador for the power of arts and culture to bring community together. She and her band will perform not only traditional mariachi songs, but music from other Latin American countries as well as her own compositions. In-person attendees will enjoy a post-show reception and meet-and-greet with Veronica and her band! Use code CS21 to save $5 on on-person tickets here: https://wbur.fm/3Gk61AD

This week, many are asking why Russia would go to war with Ukraine. On Tuesday at CitySpace, Fiona Hill, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin,” suggested that President Vladimir Putin would likely point to the U.S. for justification and the 2003 war in Iraq. You can watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/UCT_pavcAXg

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TOMORROW! Join us for a virtual conversation with Jason Bond, James Beard Award nominee and executive chef of Clover Food Lab. He'll discuss his “root-cellar” style of cooking, which was shaped by being raised as a kid around farming and preserving the harvest in Wyoming and Kansas. Mei Mei Dumplings co-founder Irene Li moderates. Tickets are $5 and available until tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. here: http://spr.ly/6181KG4ft This event is co-produced by BU Food and Wine.

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🚨 Exciting news from WBUR 90.9 FM's podcast team: a brand new season of Last Seen Podcast is coming on February 1! Millions of listeners tuned into the first season of Last Seen to hear about the largest unsolved art heist in history. For Season 2, we’re trying something brand new: curating an anthology of true stories about all kinds of people, places, money, fish, planets, ashes, feelings, and many other things that have gone … missing. This collection is about what losing them means, why we keep searching, and whether or not they could — or even should — be found. Learn more and sign up for alerts here: http://spr.ly/6183K1FLx

Call to Mind Live: Pass or Fail — Mental Health in Community Colleges

WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, is partnering with Call to Mind and the Well Beings Tour to bring you Call to Mind Live: Pass or Fail — Mental Health in Community Colleges. Join Here & Now co-host Scott Tong for a panel discussion about understanding and navigating the mental health gaps in community college.

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On Point Presents The Prime Effect: How Amazon Shapes The Way We Live

2021 Boston Mayoral Debate

WBUR, The Boston Globe, UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies and WCVB will host a special live debate between the candidates for Mayor of Boston: John Barros, Andrea Campbell, Annissa Essaibi George, Kim Janey and Michelle Wu. The debate will be moderated by Radio Boston host Tiziana Dearing and Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker.

#PrideExtended Fest

The ARTery, WBUR's arts and culture team, is proud to sponsor #PrideExtended. #PrideExtended, an initiative founded by Mercedes Loving-Manley, is a benefit festival and mutual aid initiative highlighting Black trans and non-binary talent with live performances and film screenings. It honors Black trans and non-binary ancestors and contemporary experiences by advocating for the TLGBQ+ community. As the culminating event in a yearlong exhibition project Combahee’s Radical Call, join the Boston Center for the Arts for a night of conversation and performances that center the Black trans and non-binary experience. Panelists Dykee Gorrell, Noelle Deleon and Desi will discuss what future spaces for Black trans women and femmes look like. What does it mean to manifest security while remaining vigilant? How can the community at-large better serve the TLGBQ+ community? Performances from ATL based artist Tweeny, DJ Delish, Boston-based artist Ny and Lady Tournament conclude the night’s programming.

Sound On: Really From In Concert

Indie Jazz band Really From is working toward exploring a sound that is ambitious, expansive and turbulent, layering synth, trombone and flugelhorn with ambient gusts and complex drums. Featured as The ARTery's Sound On musician in March 2021, the band's self-titled album doubled as a freshly focused declaration of the artistic direction, honed over the past seven years, unpacking the complexities of identity and culture. Join us for an intimate studio performance by Really From, filmed and recorded at The Record Co. This performance is part of The ARTery’s ongoing Sound On music series, which highlights rising local musicians.