Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 // Forbes Avenue,Interviews
For this episode of Forbes Avenue, we spoke to Shanna Carrick, the executive director of Film Pittsburgh. We talked about Pittsburgh’s cultural scene and why people should still go to the movies in the modern age of streaming.
We also talked about the upcoming JFilm festival! JFilm will be running from April 30 to May 10 this year and showcasing independent Jewish-themed movies. This year, they’ll be showing everything from coming-of-age dramas to documentaries, including “Steal This Story, Please!” which highlights Amy Goodman, the host of independent news program “Democracy Now.” (WRCT is the Pittsburgh affiliate, so you can tune in to “Democracy Now” here every morning at 8am.)
You can find the schedule for JFilm here if you need something to do after the NFL draft!
Listen to the interview: Film Pittsburgh
Riona Duncan, host, audio editor, audio engineer, researcher
Recorded March 20, 2026; WRCT debut April 21, 2026.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 // Interviews,News
Wednesday April 22’s edition of Whiskey Before Breakfast will have two conversations with folk artists performing in Pittsburgh in the near future.
Tune into WRCT Pittsburgh at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday April 22 to catch all the shenanigans! (Re-broadcast Thursday April 30 at 9:00 a.m.) Like most of the artist visits to Whiskey Before Breakfast, both interviews will be available on demand at Mandorichard’s Mixcloud page after they are broadcast.
Thursday, April 16th, 2026 // Forbes Avenue,Interviews
This week on Forbes Avenue, we aired an interview with Samuel Lemley, Director of CMU’s Posner Center For Special Collections, in which he introduced us to the Center’s new location, discussed upcoming exhibitions and events, and explained the significance of the collection.
We toured the Posner Center’s current exhibition, Rare Books & Ancestral Machines, and discovered an Enigma cipher device from World War II; an excerpt from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, that mocked 18th Century fascination with technology; a 17th Century Japanese guide to using an abacus; and other fascinating rare books and devices that are precursors to contemporary ideas and devices.
We also learned that working with original books, publications, objects, papers, and artwork can lead a student or a researcher to make fascinating discoveries about the work and the time the work was originally published.
Finally, Lemley reminded us that the UK Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, is coming to the Posner Center at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, to give a lecture on Shakespearean sonnets and language and their effect on contemporary poetry. CMU’s copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays (1623) will be on display at the event.
Listen to the interview: Samuel Lemley
Credits:
Abriana Bensch, interviewer, researcher
Richard Gordon, interviewer, researcher, audio engineer, audio editor
Recorded: April 8, 2026
WRCT debut: April 14, 2026
