Arts Express

• A Conversation With Orlando Jones.  -
• A - Bomb Japan Memorial Anniversary Week. Lionelle Hamanaka, contributor to the show, shares thoughts and personal memories. 
• Stephanie Bartage Presents The Shawshank Redemption. A stage adaptation in connection with our Baton Rouge Sister Station WHYR. -
•  Arts Express Playhous: To The Lighthouse.  -

**Coverage Marked Safe - No Hollywood Strike Actions

** "I feel I accomplished all these things, despite their attempts to stop me - and I take that as a victory because there were concerted efforts to stop me."

A Conversation With Orlando Jones. The actor talks 'Til Death Do Us Part' his latest film not on strike by the unions - and revisiting the Hollywood gatekeepers eliminating him off American Gods, accusing him of 'sending a wrong message to Black America.'

With much more on his mind as well in that regard, related to Africa rising at this moment, in a time travel excursion to what went down where it all began back then. Jones shares a strike update as well.

** "That's gonna be it, multipolar world - and we're going to be sucking the rear end of that world, if we don't stop and get our act together...'90 Second News From Strange Places...'

 **A-Bomb Japan Memorial Anniversary Week. Lionelle Hamanaka, contributor to the show, shares thoughts and personal memories during Nagasaki remembrance today August 9th, of nuclear annihilation and the Japanese American internment camps back then..                                                                      *Postscript: Not a single mention that the US dropped the atom bombs there, by the Japanese government during these ceremonies.

** "I'm trying to pay respect and honor...that's why I'm here. And I'm just doing my best during this process to just try and learn, and bring my own spin to it - and respecting you know, why I'm here in the first place..."

Stephanie Bartage Presents The Shawshank Redemption. A stage adaptation in connection with our Baton Rouge Sister Station WHYR and Latina Artistic Director Bartage, of the 225 Theater Collective youth performances - tackling dramatically the US prison industrial complex.

And the relevance of the classic prison drama in this country with five percent of the world population, and the US imprisoning 25 percent of the world's incarcerated. Along with the existence of the most oppressive US prison in that state, Louisiana's Angola Penitentiary.

** "In a sort of ghost story that plays with time, memory, and recollection...the life of a nurturing mother, hemmed in by social and family strictures, is contrasted with that of her artist friend who lives in artistic freedom, but alone..."

Arts Express Playhouse: To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's experimental work in a radio adaptation, exclusively for this show, and excerpted here with performances by the Arts Express Theater Players. 

• Orlando Jones, actor -