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1/21/2021 0 Comments

Kait + Cath Mini 9:Madam VP's Vogue Cover

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Kaitlyn Barrett (L) and Cathleen Falsani (R).
Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast. Mark Rivet is ACAF's producer. 

ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeed
ACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeed
Kaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrett
Kaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn Barrett
Cathleen Twitter: @godgrrl
Cathleen Insta: @godgrrl
​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrl
Cathleen's Latest: Look for the Light
Mark's Insta: @MarkRivet
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Mark's Twitter: @RivetMark

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Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.


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The Vogue cover that appeared on newsstands (R); and the cover the Harris team said it believed would run (L). Vogue has since announced it will run a "limited edition" of copies of the famed fashion magazine with the blue pantsuit cover. Click to read the latest update.

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1/18/2021 0 Comments

S2E1 : Gaelynn Lea | Music Has Always Been A Windy Little Thread

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Gaelynn Lea is an American folk singer, violinist, public speaker, and disability activist from Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016, she won NPR's influential Tiny Desk Contest when her song and performance for "Someday We'll Linger in the Sun" was selected more than 6,000 other submissions. Since then, with her husband, Paul, who is her tour manager, Gaelynn has been on the road practically nonstop, performing in 45 states and nine countries, before the COVID-19 pandemic made concerts and live performances all but impossible. Gaelynn has performed at numerous festivals including SXSW, the Winnipeg Folk Festival in Canada, and the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland. She also has opened for and collaborated with bands including Wilco, The Decemberists, LOW, The Jay Hawks, and the industrial rock supergroup Pigface. On Sundays, she performs live on her YouTube channel where she is joined by a variety of musical guests, most recently Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.
 In addition to performing and recording, Gaelynn, who has brittle bone disease, also does speaking engagements about Disability Rights, finding inner freedom, and accessibility in the arts. She uses her music as a platform to advocate for people with disabilities and to promote positive social change. So far she's been able to share her perspective on PBS NewsHour, The Moth Radio Hour, The Science of Happiness Podcast, and through two popular TEDx Talks.


Gaelynn's website: Violin Scratches
 Gaelynn's Patreon: GaelynnLea
 Gaelynn's Bandcamp: GaelynnLea
Gaelynn's YouTube Channel: GaelynnLea
Twitter: @GaelynnLea
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1/14/2021 0 Comments

Kait + Cath Mini 8: #NoFlyList

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Kaitlyn Barrett (L) and Cathleen Falsani.
​Kaitlyn Barrett  and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.

Kaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrett
Kaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn Barrett
ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeed
ACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeed
Cathleen Twitter: @godgrrl
Cathleen Insta: @godgrrl
​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrl
Cathleen's Latest: Look for the Light

Well, if it isn't the consequences of our actions....
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Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.
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1/12/2021 0 Comments

S1E23: Caitlin Finnie | Wear a Mask and Be Respectful

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Caitlin Finnie is a classically trained soprano from Spring, Texas and Calgary, Alberta. After attending Northwestern University for a Bachelor of Music degree, she appeared in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s presentation of The King and I, before relocating to New York City and, shortly thereafter, heading out on tour with Les Miserables as an ensemble member and understudy for the role of Cosette. She is currently on The Phantom of the Opera World Tour as the alternate Christine Daae.

Instagram: @CaitlinFinnie16

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1/7/2021 0 Comments

Kait + Cath Mini 7: Trash TV

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Kaitlyn Barrett (L) and Cathleen Falsani (R)
are co-hosts of
the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.

Kaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrett
Kaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn Barrett
ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeed
ACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeed
Cathleen Twitter: @godgrrl
Cathleen Insta: @godgrrl
​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrl
Cathleen's Latest: Look for the Light

What's your guiltiest guilty TV pleasure? The trashiest, garbage-y-est, perhaps truly-embarrassing-to-admit show you watch or have watched? RHWOWherever? Jersey Shore? The Bachelor? Big Brother? (If you say The Apprentice, you need to leave. Now. ) Are you old enough to remember the first season of Real World? Survivor? How about Laguna Beach--the 'reality' show that launched a thousand (or a dozen) terrible C-list careers? We admit a few terrible truths—how many times has Cath watched every episode of Golden Girl and Grace and Frankie, exactly?—Mark uses "Jared Leto" as a verb, Kait says "ratch-ED," tells us what it was like to hate-watch Love Is Blind in lockdown, and actually read the entire Game of Thrones series. Why Letterkenny is brilliant. Full stop. Mark and Kaitlyn explain the RHWOTOC cat meme and the plot of Dexter to Cath, who can't remember the name of the actor who plays the hot son on Weeds (which was really good and then really bad) and was also in the revival of Godspell. (It's Hunter Parrish.) Mark tells a super gross story, and yes, Kait still loves Nickleback. (We know.) 

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.

  • Part one of The Daily Show's coverage of how Laguna Beach got run out of town in Laguna Beach
  • Part two of The Daily Show's coverage of how Laguna Beach got run out of town in Laguna Beach 
  • How Firefly was aired in the wrong order

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1/5/2021 0 Comments

S1E22: Bhushan Thakkar | Masala Western

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Bhushan Thakkar is a filmmaker, photographer, cinematographer, director, editor, producer and co-founder of the digital media company 20EVO based in Southern California. 
Bhushan’s love of visual art and storytelling drew him to filmmaking early in life. In the last 20 years, he has produced, directed and shot for commercial corporate media, nature-based content, as well as films for U.S. and international audiences.
In more than two decades of experience, Bhushan's photography and filmmaking have brought him through Brazil, India, Europe, and North America. Whenever he travels, Bhushan the natural beauty of every region he visits, and he often books extra time to shoot photos and video time-lapses for his own enjoyment.
In 2011, Bhushan co-produced and was second unit director for the award-winning romantic comedy When Harry Tries to Marry; in 2014, he directed Glass, a short film about two glass blowers from Kansas now living in Kauai, and the unlikely story that brought them there. Bhushan also shot for Linda Midgett's award-winning documentary Same God and was the cinematographer for Caipira, a documentary about a Brazilian guitar maker (in post production.)Bhushan's photography has been published widely in numerous magazines, newspapers, catalogs, social media sites, and many brand websites. His most recent project is the short film Returning Home, featuring pro mountain biker Richie Schley created entirely during the 2020 COVID lockdown.
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Instagram: ​@BhooShoots
Website: 20EVO
IMBD: Returning Home
Awaken Om app: DiscoverOm.com


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12/29/2020 0 Comments

S1E21: Barbara Mahany | Pressed Against the Heartbeat of the World, Listening

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Barbara Mahany. Photo via Abingdon Press.
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Barbara Mahany spent nearly three decades as a reporter and writer at the Chicago Tribune. She is now a freelance journalist and author of four collections of essays. Her first, Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door, has been called “balm for the hurried heart,” and “a field guide into your holiest hours.” Her second book, Motherprayer: Lessons in Loving, explores the sacred mysteries of mothering—its sorrows, joys, trembles, hallelujahs, and the tumble of questions without answers.
Her latest, which debuted earlier this autumn, The Stillness of Winter: Sacred Blessings of the Season, is a "gift book," which basically means a pretty little book you might delight in holding in your hand, or tucking in your pocket, or slipping onto your bedside table. It's a lovely, fetchingly-compact tome and we have done just that with it in Bellingham and Laguna Beach, respectively. 
A pediatric oncology nurse before taking up journalism, Barb ever is drawn to deeply human stories, where she has displayed a nurse’s knack for tapping into the hearts of those whose story she is telling.
She counts among her life’s treasures the hundreds of letters she’s received from readers who tell her they’ve clipped one of her stories and tucked it in a wallet, a bedroom drawer, or slipped it in a plastic sleeve and carried it wherever they’ve gone. One such fellow, the Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square, who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver one cold December’s eve, died clutching a laminated copy of the story she had written about him three years earlier. 
Barb still writes regularly on her longtime blog, Pull Up A Chair. We suggest you do.

Website: BarbaraMahany.com
Instagram: @barbara.ann.mahany
Twitter: @BarbaraMahany
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12/24/2020 0 Comments

S1E20: Terri Hemmert Pt. 2 | The Christmas Eve Special (I Don't Like the Sound of My Own Voice)

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Auntie Terri in her Beatles-as-elves Christmas sweater (a prezzie from her fans here at ACAF) and Santa mask. (Photo courtesy of Terri.)
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Terri Hemmert. Photo by Mary Rafferty.
Terri Hemmert is an absolute legend in the world of rock 'n' roll radio. She's been on the air at Chicago's WXRT (93.1 FM) radio station for 47 years, beginning with the overnight shift in 1973. In 1981, she became the city's first female morning drive personality in 1981, before moving to the midday slot in 1992 where she stayed until her retirement last year. A lifelong music lover and an OG Beatles fan, she still host's XRT's "Breakfast with the Beatles" every Sunday despite having officially retired from the radio station in 2019. A musicologist who has taught the history of rock and soul at Chicago's Columbia College and other schools for decades, in 2010 Terri was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Her work also has been featured at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, and in honor of her 40th anniversary on the air, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared December 18, 2013
"Terri Hemmert Day" in the City of Chicago. 

Terri's Very Active Facebook Page

Terri explores the history of rock & soul
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National Radio Hall of Fame

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Terri's merchant marine ship. Photo courtesy of Terri.


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Clockwise from top left: Kaitlyn, Mark, Cathleen, and Terri during the taping of the ACAF 2020 Christmas Eve special.

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12/22/2020 0 Comments

S1E19: Greta Chapin-McGill | Thrifty Southwestern Fancy Tailgate

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"Pieta" by Greta Chapin-McGill.

Greta Chapin-McGill is a Black feminist artist who believes the narrative of her art is a living document, evolving in phases. The most important lesson she says she has learned has been "to get out of my own way and let the art lead me.” She is  drawn to artists, male and female, whose sensibilities are able to look intimately at the feminine mystic. 
“Women express openly among themselves and in every venue they inhabit emotion and spirituality," Greta says. To her, feminism means having the unparalleled physical strength literally to push humanity forward. "Feminism silently and most profoundly influences my work, she says.
"Women are the species I know best.”
 
 
Reared in Washington, D.C., Greta has lived in New York, New Mexico, and Firenze, Italy. 
“My work is abstractly real. The techniques are driven by classical art 'isms,' indigenous tribal art, and my own unique ancestral DNA. I spend time reading, studying, and collecting mentors to further my art," she says. Her great influences include Wilfredo Lam, Picasso, Matisse, Leon Berkowitz, Alma Thomas, and contemporary artists with whom she converses with about art, politics, and concepts of life, such as  Lillian Burwell,  the late Jack Whitten, Oliver Lee Jackson, Akili Anderson, Alonzo Davis, and Indigenous  artist Patricia Michaels. 
“I am driven to tell the story of my time through the eyes of a Black American woman, a feminist and global citizen,” Greta says. 
 
Instagram: ChapinMcGill (where many of her works pictured are for sale—DM her!)
Facebook: Greta Chapin-McGill

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12/16/2020 0 Comments

S1E18: Kelley Weber |COVID Clowning

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Kelley Weber is an actor, teacher, spiritual director, and knitter. Originally from Connecticut, she has been teaching theater and acting professionally in St. Louis for the last 25 years. She was a founding member of St. Louis' Mustard Seed Theater, which explored our relationship with God and our ethical responsibility to the world.
​Most recently she won the St. Louis Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her role as Bodie in Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur for The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis. As kids grow and move off to college and beyond, Kelley is looking toward second-half-of-life work outside the theater, helping bring to life people's sacred stories as a spiritual director. She recently graduated from Aquinas Institute of Theology. 

Instagram: @kells_shwell
and @a_spiral_space
Kelley's website: www.aspiral.space 
Kelley's Substack: A Spiral Space
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​NUULY (Kelley's code)


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