The butchers and owners of Hudson & Charles, Kevin Haverty and J. Fox, talk about meat. Hudson and Charles is a sustainable, locally sourced whole animal butcher. Listen →

Rasika Shekar plays live in the studio and talks about working for Bollywood. Listen →

Local Brooklyn band, The Violence, makes every day music for every day people. In the studio, they make electronic music live in real time. Listen →

The Polka Brothers talk about polka Star Wars and Ozzy Osbourne polka style and talk about polka music when they're not talking about sausage and beer. Listen →

Guest Host Violet Baron in conversations with Kathleen, a brooklyn musician, and a poet. Listen →

Musicians from Chhandayan, an Indian Music Center, come to the studio. take off their shoes. Sit on the ground. Then speak and play tablas from their souls. Listen →

The Poetry Brothel and Poetry Society of NY close out our month long celebration of National Poetry Month with live accordion, poems and talk. Listen →

Nightboat Books publisher and poets continue the national poetry month celebration with poetry and the mystical wall that crumbles when verse is your secret language. Listen →

Bards (Jen Benka, Michelle Campagna, Emma Hine and Nikay Paredes) from The Academy of American Poets celebrates live with us in the studio another mellifluous month of mot juste this National Poetry Month. They read their favorite poems aloud with us, share their poetry haunts, tell us legends of how poets are born and the revered institution they breathe for. We celebrate poetry all month long on the radio. Listen →

Darlinda & Allegra, performers from House of Yes, arrive fabulously adorned bearing vegan donuts. Talk of the ornate and the wondrous ensue as we talk about color, life, performance, clowns, burlesque and doing what you came to do in the big city. Listen →

Three New York City Beekeepers join us live in the studio to talk about what they like to do with honey, the cost of replacing your queen, beehives on the move, bees in a box and getting intimate with the buzzing and much misunderstood striped creatures who bring us sweet glorious honey. Listen →

Three secret supper club hosts come into the studio live and tell us how to transform our homes into a party. Listen →

New York Arabic Orchestra comes into the studio and plays classical Arabic music live on ouds and percussion. Listen as we talk about the songs, and read the classical Arabic poetry that are the lyrics of these traditional ancient songs. Listen →

Kid Lucky & D-Cross, NYC prominent beatboxers, bring their distinct style of beatboxing to our studio and school us on art. Listen →

Local band Doctor plays unplugged in our studio and discusses making music in Brooklyn. Listen →

BateWorld's Peter Rosenberg and sexologist Dr. Jallen Rix rejoice in revolution, love and pleasure in masturbating together online. BateWorld is a 63K+ member male only online masturbation community with four hundred members logged in at any second spread out all over the world-stretching across races and ages and shared by men of all sexualities and persuasions-straight, gay, and transgendered. They have created a unique online community to share their mutual love of masturbation through solo stroking, buddy jerking, group scenes. BateWorld offers a large collection of amateur, user generated images, videos, erotic stories, lively discussion forums, messaging and group video chats. Listen →

Spirit Plate join us in the studio with African drums and guitar to talk about nostalgia, street art, Native American music, and making music in Brooklyn. Listen →

Josh Russell, February One Story author, joins us from Atlanta to read and talk about the wonders of Ikea, teenage angst and moving a character through landscape. Listen →

TinVulva, an all women soul punk Brooklyn band, plays live in the studio and tells us all their childhood secrets. Listen →

One Story January author, Amanda Rea, and NYC author, Jacob Appel, are contestants in our literary quiz show, read their work, and discuss their writing. Listen →