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North Avenue Lounge
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The North Avenue Lounge is WREK’s interview show. Your hosts Charlie Bennett, Keren Landman, and Shannon M. Turner alternate weeks, talking with artists, writers, professors, students, scientists, engineers, musicians, and other fascinating people from the metro Atlanta area and beyond.
Tune in each Monday at noon to hear an interesting conversation about almost anything.
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Best of North Avenue Lounge - Online Dating in Atlanta - 6/28/21
Jun 29, 202100:59:55Tap to summarizeWe wrap up our Best-Of Shannon M. Turner Highlight Reelz with a retrospective on all of Shannon's explorations of the heart. Hear segments of her episodes with co-host Cris Gray and with Dee Wagner, author of Naked Online: The Dating Book, and ponder whether awkward vulnerability will ever win the game.
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Best of North Avenue Lounge - Funny People - 6/21/21
Jun 21, 202100:59:56Tap to summarizeOur highlight reels continue with a collection of host Shannon M. Turner's best-loved episodes with some of Atlanta's funniest people. Listen in on clips from interviews with Gina Rickicki, Cris Gray, Kris Boltz, Topher Payne, Jon Carr (now of Second City!), and Nicole Kemper.
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Best of North Avenue Lounge - Atlanta Theater - 6/14/21
Jun 14, 202100:59:59Tap to summarizeOur highlight reels continue with a collection of host Shannon M. Turner's best-loved episodes with Atlanta's dreamiest theatre makers. Hear segments with Kenny Leon, Suehyla El-Attar, Michael Haverty, Daniel Thomas May, Rachel May, and a whole crew of folx from 7 Stages from way back in Shannon's second episode in fall of 2013. We start out with a meditation on how theatre has been hit hard by the pandemic and why it's important to support it and find our way back into those dark spaces, sitting elbow-to-elbow with strangers as soon as we can feel safe to do so.
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