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<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with Singer-Songwriter Lauren Calve about her Debut Long-form Album, <i>Shift</i></b>
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Singer-Songwriter Lauren Calve about her Debut Long-form Album, Shift

Music, PodcastSeptember 21, 2023by Andy Culpepper

 Recently I had the opportunity to interview the D.C. based singer-songwriter Lauren Calve. By her own wry admission, she’s something of a late bloomer. In…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with Judy Lev about her Groundbreaking New Memoir, <i>Our Names Do Not Appear</i></b>
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Judy Lev about her Groundbreaking New Memoir, Our Names Do Not Appear

Books, News + Views, Podcast, PoliticsAugust 18, 2023by Andy Culpepper

  Judy Lev (the pen name for Judy Labensohn) is an American-Israeli writer whose new memoir — Our Names Do Not Appear —  breaks new ground…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Pamela Skjolsvik about Her Novel, <i>Forever 51</i></b>
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Pamela Skjolsvik about Her Novel, Forever 51

Books, PodcastAugust 8, 2023by Andy Culpepper

  Pamela Skjolsvik and I met in 2008 at Goucher College where we both were enrolled in the Creative Nonfiction MFA program.  We’ve kept in…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks Painting and Poetry with Chris Arvidson, Author of <i>The House Inside My Head</i></b>
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Tandy Culpepper Talks Painting and Poetry with Chris Arvidson, Author of The House Inside My Head

Books, PodcastJuly 24, 2023by Andy Culpepper

I caught up recently with a woman who, like me, graduated from Goucher College’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. She and I have been Facebook…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with New Grammy Member Dr. James Michael Stevens, Educator and Prolific Composer</b>
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with New Grammy Member Dr. James Michael Stevens, Educator and Prolific Composer

Music, PodcastJuly 22, 2023by Andy Culpepper

I knew him eons ago when I was a high school English teacher and tennis coach in a Atmore, Alabama. He was on my tennis…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Interviews the “Queen of the Hollywood Press Junket,” Reba Merrill & Big News Regarding the Oscar Folks</b>
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Tandy Culpepper Interviews the “Queen of the Hollywood Press Junket,” Reba Merrill & Big News Regarding the Oscar Folks

Books, Film, Podcast, TVJuly 22, 2023by Andy Culpepper

Reba Merrill is an author, lecturer, and broadcast journalist. Reba and I crossed paths several decades back when I was host of a TV show…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks Clinical Psychology and Hypnotherapy with Dr. Nancy Irwin</b>
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Tandy Culpepper Talks Clinical Psychology and Hypnotherapy with Dr. Nancy Irwin

News + Views, Personalities, PodcastJuly 9, 2023by Andy Culpepper

Dr. Nancy Irwin is a Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist. A longtime mutual friend thought I’d enjoy interviewing Dr. Irwin, and our friend was…

<b>Donald Trump CNN Town Hall? Unmitigated Disaster for CNN and Kaitlan Collins. What was CNN Chief Chris Licht Thinking?</b>

Donald Trump CNN Town Hall? Unmitigated Disaster for CNN and Kaitlan Collins. What was CNN Chief Chris Licht Thinking?

Politics, TVMay 12, 2023by Andy Culpepper

The reviews are in for CNN’s much bally-hooed and confounding Trump town hall, and for the most part, they are scathing. Full disclosure: I was…

Madonna Set to Begin World Tour in July: A Whole New World with a Whole New Face — or Something Old is New Again

Madonna Set to Begin World Tour in July: A Whole New World with a Whole New Face — or Something Old is New Again

Film, Music, News + Views, PersonalitiesApril 14, 2023by Andy Culpepper

I haven’t posted in several weeks, but I feel inspired to comment on the original Material Girl today. I first became an acolyte of Madonna…

<b>A Spy Among Friends: Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis Give Life to the Treachery of the Notorious British Double Agent, Kim Philby</b>

A Spy Among Friends: Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis Give Life to the Treachery of the Notorious British Double Agent, Kim Philby

Books, News + Views, Personalities, Politics, TVMarch 24, 2023by Andy Culpepper

I am fascinated by the true story of Kim Philby, a highly-placed intelligence officer in Britain’s MI6 special intelligence service — the British equivalent of…

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  • Donald Trump CNN Town Hall? Unmitigated Disaster for CNN and Kaitlan Collins. What was CNN Chief Chris Licht Thinking? May 12, 2023
  • Madonna Set to Begin World Tour in July: A Whole New World with a Whole New Face — or Something Old is New Again April 14, 2023
  • A Spy Among Friends: Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis Give Life to the Treachery of the Notorious British Double Agent, Kim Philby March 24, 2023