The Roundtable

"Up Up Up" - Givers

They'll be at Mountain Jam on Saturday.

The Eighth Annual Pride March and Festival sponsored by the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center steps off on Sunday, June 3rd on Main Street in New Paltz. We learn more about it and the other work Hudson Valley LGBTQ does from Virginia Apuzzo (Founding President and Life Time Board Member) and Jan Whitman (Founding Board Member).

As in 2008, there is chatter about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joining the Democratic ticket. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative Bill Owens tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that he isn’t privy to high-level discussions about how to beat former Governor Romney.

We speak with E.J. Dionne about his new book, Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent

Filmmaker, Ben Shapiro, shot Brief Encounters for over a decade - the same decade that photographer, Gregory Crewdson filled with creating Beneath the Roses - an extensive series of pictures shot in and around the hilltowns of Massachusetts. As a result, we are privy to an amazingly detailed glimpse of the artist at work.

WAMC's Ian Pickus catches up with comedian, author and actor Jim Breuer, a Saturday Night Live alum famed for his role in cult film Half Baked. Breuer brings his Heavy Metal Family Fan tour to Upstate Concert Hall (formerly Northern Lights) in Clifton Park, New York on June 9.

This Sunday - June 3 - the High Meadow School will hold the 6th Annual Ride the Ridge Bike Challenge to benefit the High Meadow Performing Arts Center. Paul Rakoff, Chairperson for Ride the Ridge Bike Challenge, and Michelle Hughes, High Meadow School Director join us to tell us more.

Joe speaks with children's musician, Dean Jones, about his new Dog on Fleas album, Invisible Friends.

The band is playing at the Rosendale Cafe on June 9th and at the Clearwater Festival on June 16th and 17th.

Mary Anne Lee, Executive Director and Lydia Kukoff, board member and co-chair of Hidden Gardens, join us to talk about all of the excellent events coming up at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center.

The election season is well underway — from the White House on down. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative Bill Owens tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that getting to know his new district has been a major undertaking.