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Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 23: Multidisciplinary Creative, Sara EliseSARA ELISE is a multidisciplinary creative, splitting her time between Brooklyn and The Catskills, New York. She works primarily in the hospitality, well-being, and food industries and is the co-founder and designer of Apogeo Guest House, a boutique hotel concept space in Nicaragua that centers QTPOC, as well as the founder of Harvest & Revel, a NY-based sustainable event catering + design company.She is the author of A Recipe for More, her debut book released with Harper Collins in May 2023.Sara Elise has been featured in Dazed, Autostraddle, Playboy, Interview Mag, Essence, Afropunk, mindbodygreen...
2024-07-101h 08
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 22: Entertainment Executive, Terez MychelleTerez Mychelle is a thespian, entertainment executive and an accomplished administrator with more than thirty-five (35) years of experience working with Non-Profit Organizations, privately and publicly funded organizations, and LGBTQIA+ Global Foundations.Currently, Terez serves as Executive Director for Global Collective, a Global hybrid luxury branding, marketing, management, and talent agency. As a trained thespian, and entertainment executive Terez has produced shows in community theatre, off Broadway, concerts, and managed tours.Terez is a GLAAD Media Award winner, New York City Supportive Housing Trailblazer Award, Unity Fellowship Church L.I.F.E Award and Black Pride...
2024-03-271h 00
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 21: AIDS Cyclist - Uli SchackmannIn May 2017, Uli Schackmann and her loyal canine companion, Jackson, took off on a six-thousand-mile solo bicycle trip from Alaska to Key West, Florida, to raise money and bring attention to the cause of HIV/AIDS. What began as a daring dream-come-true quickly became a physically and emotionally challenging adventure as Uli battled her own fears and the elements, surviving encounters with bears, rattlesnakes, cougars, and other wildlife. However, her most profound and life-changing encounters were with the people she met along the way—complete strangers who exhibited to Uli, a gay woman and a U.S. immigrant, both th...
2024-01-2541 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 20: Drag King Legend, Comedian - Murray HillMURRAY HILL is a NYC legend, comedian, TV host, MC, an international entertainer, a relentless shtick slinger, larger-than-life personality, and freewheeling ad-libber. He plays Fred Rococo in Bridget Everett’s Somebody Somewhere (HBO). The show was awarded many “Best of 2022 & 2023” Awards, including “Best New TV Series” from AFI and was just renewed for a third season. He hosts the new competition show Drag Me To Dinner (Hulu). He can be seen on Amy Schumer’s Life & Beth and Welcome to Flatch (FOX) and upcoming in Paul Feig’s movie Grand Death Lotto (Amazon Studios) starring John Cena and Awkwafina.Murray was...
2023-10-0644 min
Healthy Lifestyle Solutions with Maya Acosta318: Flavors and Wisdom: Unveiling the Delights of Chef Julia's One-Day Retreat | Maya Acosta and Dr. Rizwan BukhariJoin Maya Acosta and Dr. Rizwan Bukhari as they unravel their transformative experience at Chef Julia's one-day retreat. Delving into whole food plant-based cooking, they share their newfound appreciation for the deliciousness of healthy meals and debunk the misconceptions surrounding taste. The discussion highlights the importance of practical skills, pantry essentials, and choosing healthier plant-based options over processed convenience foods for overall well-being.Key Takeaways:Savor the Excitement: Discover how whole food, plant-based cooking can tantalize your taste buds as Maya Acosta emphasizes the authentic flavors and delights of Chef Julia's retreat.Empowering Everyday...
2023-06-0545 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 19: Costume Designer, Stylist, Patricia FieldPATRICIA FIELD, is a native New Yorker and one of fashion's greatest visionaries whose multi-faceted career has spanned more than five decades. Her distinctive approach to dressing is evident through her work as a costume designer. Field single handedly changed the way women dress through the HBO series Sex and the City and it's feature films. For her work on SATC Field won an Emmy Award and received five nominations for Best Costume Design. Field also received an Academy Award nomination for the film, The Devil Wears Prada as well as continued recognition for her work...
2023-02-2845 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 18: Actor, Writer - Carl CapotortoCARL CAPOTORTO, is a writer, and actor best known for his portrayal of Little Paulie Germani on HBO's The Sopranos, and has appeared in several classic indie features, including Five Corners and Mac. He is a native New Yorker, born and raised in the Bronx, and lives in Manhattan. He is also the author of Twisted Head: An Italian-American Memoir (Random House, 2008), based on his solo show of the same name. His plays have been presented at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (three seasons), Yale Repertory Theatre, the Vineyard Theater, Theater for the New City, and many other venues...
2023-01-0755 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 17: Artist, Mickalene ThomasMultidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas is one the the most well know contemporary artists in the art scene today. She is a queer identified, African American woman working and residing in Brooklyn NY. Her visual work examines ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender. In this episode, Mickalene speaks about her complex relationship with her mother, who inspired and influenced her photography and paintings, and set a trajectory for her visual work, as well as personal recollections on her journey of self awareness, queer liberation and coming to terms with the past. Mickalene Thomas's work is...
2022-12-111h 04
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 16: Fashion Stylist, Rebecca WeinbergRebecca Weinberg an Emmy Award winning Fashion Stylist, Costume Designer and Brand Ambassador, she is best known for her creations and styling on the hit tv series Sex & the City. Rebecca is a tastemaker, a visionary and a downtown NYC queer personality. In this episode, Rebecca shares her childhood memories of growing up with her single mom, her adventures during those rebellious teen years, falling in love for the first time and her emancipation to New York City after coming out to her mom.You can follow Rebecca on Instagram @rebeccaweinbergstyleSend us a...
2022-09-2543 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 15: DJ, Producer, Lauren FlaxIn this episode, we welcome shapeshifting DJ, producer and activist Lauren Flax. Lauren began her career in the underground Detroit music scene where she evolved her style into techno, house, and electro music. More recently she is producing and recording her own music and we are pleased to showcase some of her music throughout this episode. She began her DJ career in the underground dance and rave scenes of Detroit as a resident at the Motor Lounge. Flax played the very first Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000 on the Motor stage. While originally starting off as a jun...
2022-06-1445 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 14: Yemeni-American, Zuhair NasherZUHAIR NASHER is a queer-identified, first generation Yemeni-American man born and raised in Queens, New York. He is a risk manager in the financial services and technology industries, and a marriage officiant, presiding over weddings and ceremonies throughout the country. For more information and bookings, visit: http://www.wordsthatlast.com.Send us a textSupport the showRecorded at The Newsstand Studio at 1 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC. Special thanks to Joseph Hazan & Karen Song. Produced by Wanda Acosta• Find us: @cafetabacfilm on Insta...
2022-04-031h 01
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 13: Fashion Model/Dog Whisperer, Andrea SmithAndrea is an original patron of Sundays at Café Tabac, and a participant in the upcoming documentary film based on those fabulous Sunday nights in NYC circa 1993.Originally from Washington DC, Andrea arrived in NYC as a model working with some of the biggest names in fashion, and became a sought after muse. After the tragedy of 911, Andrea decided to change careers and became a canine specialist recognized by the ASPCA of NYC for her fearless dedication and praised in Time Magazine for her dog care system.dreadogworld.comSend us a te...
2021-09-1755 min
Wanda's PicksWanda's Picks Radio Show Special with Omar SosaThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Special Guests: Cuban composer and pianist O...
2021-09-1354 min
Wanda's Picks Radio Show Special with Omar SosaThis is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Special Guests:
Cuban composer and pianist O...
2021-09-1355 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 12: Filmmaker, Elina StreetELINA STREET, is a Franco-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY and co-director of "The Lesbian Bar Project," the documentary film and campaign dedicated to raising awareness for the alarming trend of lesbian bar closures nationwide. Elina and her team have also created a fundraising project with the help of Jagermeister's #SaveTheNight campaign, to raise $200K in critical funds to help save our bars. In this intimate interview, Elina shares with us the seeds of this project through her coming out story and the vital role New York City's lesbian bars played in her own self-discovery and empowerment....
2021-06-111h 04
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 11: Basketball Legend, Sue WicksIn this episode, we are so thrilled to welcome Hall of Fame basketball legend and New Yorker, Sue Wicks. Her distinguished career is defined by records set and numerous accolades, MVP, all-star game and gold medal honors. She played forward in the WNBA for our very own hometown team, the New York Liberty since its inaugural season and was awarded the 2001 Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award and was consistently voted fan favorite. You will soon understand why. Whether on or off the court, her characteristic humility and empathy makes it no surprise that she was, and sti...
2021-05-211h 04
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastPart 2: Tara Rodriguez BesosaIn part 2 of this podcast, we continue our conversation with Tara Rodriguez Besosa, a queer, latinx, agro-architect, organizer, and living resource within the sustainable & queer food, agroecology movements. Tara has increased access to local food economies, spotlighting the value of farmers within economic transitions from extractive to regenerative practices. She also invests a lot her time at OtraCosa, a queer collective land sanctuary in Caguas, Puerto Rico.In this episode, Tara discusses how queer farming practices are used to create resilience through food sovereignty and more.Send us a text...
2021-04-2640 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 10: Agro-activist, Tara Rodriguez BesosaTara Rodríguez Besosa (she/they/ellx), born, raised and based in Borikén (Puerto Rico), works at the powerful intersection of queer community and food sovereignty, often sharing how queer and agroecological practices are essential for the transition from extractive to regenerative food systems, as well as collective models and shared resources that empower those who grow, cook, and work towards decolonized bodies and lands.She is co-founder of projects ranging from a DIY architect-run gallery in Brooklyn, to El Departamento de la Comida in Puerto Rico, to arts venues like El Local en Santurce and a...
2021-04-1025 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 9: Drag legend, Sherry VineSherry Vine (a.k.a. Keith Levy) has been performing her hilarious comedy shows, which features her "live" singing and saucy renditions of hit songs for over 30 years, earning her the title of Drag Legend. In this episode, we hear Keith's joyful coming out story amidst the growing pains of self identity, and the hilarious reality of having to come out "twice", once as a queer man and second, as a drag performer. She is the star and writer of her own variety show, She's Living For This, which is currently streaming on Hulu and ca...
2021-01-1325 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 8: Filmmaker, Sam FederSAM FEDER is an award-winning director and producer whose films explore the intersection of visibility and politics along the lines of race, class, and gender in trans lives, while working towards higher ethical standards in filmmaking. His current film, Disclosure (streaming now on Netflix), which world-premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 to high acclaim, thoroughly examines the history of transgender representation in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender.His previous film, Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger—portrait of trans icon Kate Bornstein—was named one of th...
2020-12-2321 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 7: Music Producer, Javier PeralJavier Peral is an internationally known sound stylist, music producer and music director, renowned for his intrinsic approach to sound design. He one of the most sought-after names for fashion show soundtracks, as well as creating music for art videos, performance and film. Born and raised in Madrid, Javier has been a fixture on the music scene since arriving in New York City in the early 1990s, where he was a DJ at the beloved East Village queer space, Wonderbar. In this episode, Javier brings us to his teen years in Madrid, where he discovers his se...
2020-11-1322 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 6: Filipina/American Writer, Kimberly BlissKIMBERLY BLISS, is a Philippine-born, Buffalo-bred and Brooklyn-boroughed novelist for hire. Her work has appeared in Hobart and Dime Show Review, she was a 2020 resident at the New Orleans Writers' Residency, and this summer's guest fiction editor at Hobart. She is currently working on her Great American Novel set in the Philippines, Death in Manila. Find her online at kimberlybliss.com and Twitter @blisster. Send us a textSupport the showRecorded at The Newsstand Studio at 1 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC. Special thanks to Joseph Hazan & Karen Song. Produced by W...
2020-09-2423 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 5: Lesbian Pioneer, Leslie CohenLESLIE COHEN, is someone you might’ve often seen, but not necessarily have known it was her. She and her partner of 44 years, Beth Suskin, sit out in front of Stonewall in NYC, all day everyday. They were the models that posed for George Segal in 1979 and are immortalized in the sculptures at Christopher Park in front of Stonewall. Segal, despite being a highly established artist at the time, had a hard time finding models brave enough to pose for the statues that would commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots which marked the birth of the gay liberation movement.
2020-09-0327 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 4: Journalist/Activist, Linda VillarosaLinda Villarosa is an award-winning author, journalist, educator and activist, she is a contributing writer and editor for the New York Times Magazine, the NYT at large and its Science Times, where she covers race, inequality and health. She authored 3 books, was the former executive editor of Essence Magazine, and is the current director of the journalism program at the City College of New York where she teaches reporting, writing and Black StudiesIn this episode, Linda shares with us here, her truly inspiring and uniquely public coming out story.
2020-07-2319 min
Espacio Político PREpisodio 4: Estamos ante un PFEI, la sesión extraordinaria de promesas políticas... wait, nos volvieron a cerrar los domingos.Los panelistas Jeshuan Torres, Freddy Acosta e Iván Rodríguez discuten sobre el PFEI para Wanda, la sesión extraordinaria convocada por la Gobernadora Constitucional Wanda Vázquez y el cierre del próximo domingo. Recuerda que pueden conseguirnos a través de Facebook e Instagram como @espaciopoliticopr y en Twitter como @espaciopr
2020-07-2150 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 3: Filmmaker, Karen SongKAREN SONG is the director and producer of the Sundays at Café Tabac documentary, where she is able to pay homage to a space and community central to her coming of age. She is a queer-identified, Korean-American woman, born and raised in New York City. She is a film director working across various dramatic, documentary, and commercial platforms, with narrative feature film projects currently in development.Send us a textSupport the showRecorded at The Newsstand Studio at 1 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC. Special thanks to Joseph Hazan & K...
2020-07-0117 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 2: Award-winning writer, Jacqueline WoodsonJACQUELINE WOODSON, is a writer of books for children and young adults, and the recipient of the National Book Award for her 2014 book, Brown Girl Dreaming. She was awarded National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2018-2019 by the Library of Congress, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal this year. Her latest book Red at the Bone was released last year and was an instant New York Times best seller and New York Time Notable book of the year, as well as Oprah’s Best Books of 2019. In this episode, she talks about coming out...
2020-06-2309 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 1: Lesbian nightlife icon, Wanda AcostaWANDA ACOSTA, producer & co-creator of the documentary film, Sundays at Café Tabac, and a stalwart icon in lesbian nightlife in downtown New York, recounts her coming out story as a young woman in the early 1990's at the height of lesbian visibility in the media and a turning point for queer culture and lesbian empowerment. Send us a textSupport the showRecorded at The Newsstand Studio at 1 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC. Special thanks to Joseph Hazan & Karen Song. Produced by Wanda Acosta• Find us: @cafe...
2020-06-1213 min
TERTULIANDO CON RAFALIC. ALEXANDRA ACOSTA CABAN - DEMANDA CONTRA GOB. WANDA VAZQUEZANALISIS ELEMENTOS DEMANDA EX SEC GOBERNACION ITZA GARCIA CONTRA LA GOBERNADORA VAZQUEZ EN FUNCIONES SECRETARIA JUSTICIA
2020-05-0517 min
Especiales Nacional¡Ni Una Menos! El grito contra la violencia de géneroMiles de personas marcharon hace un año en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, además de otros puntos del país y la región, para expresar la necesidad de instrumentos legales, culturales y políticos que apunten a desactivar la violencia de género.
En la Argentina, durante 2015 al menos 286 mujeres fueron asesinadas, según los registros, y en los primeros cien días de 2016 los crímenes por femicidio llegan a 70, observándose con alarma que las víctimas son cada vez más jovencitas.
Este 3 de junio, #VolvemosAGritar. Nuevas movilizaciones identificadas bajo la consigna...
2016-06-0300 min
Ritmo Mania's PodcastN3 Amigos Ft. All Stars - Parranda All StrarsSaquen el Pitorro, saquen el Coquito que esta Navidad estará Caliente con mucha musica tradicional y musica nueva especialmente con la parranda de N3 Amigos y sus invitados.
Regresa el siempre jocoso y sorprendente Roberto Santos "El Guallo" y su combinación Perfecta Del Merengue la agrupación N3 Amigos que nos presentan su nueva propuesta musical, aunque se encuentran sonando fuerte con el corte promocional "El Gato' Esta vez El Guallo y N*3 Amigos deciden como se dice "poner toda la carne en el asador" y nos presentan no solo uno si no 2 temas nuevos El primero, se tit...
2011-11-1004 min