Month: August 2016

Triple Take episode 11: Birmingham magazine’s Julia Sayers

Triple Take Julia SayersThis week, Birmingham magazine Managing Editor Julia Sayers joined us on Triple Take. The magazine’s September issue, which celebrates the best of Birmingham, is on newsstands now.

Julia’s specialties are food and travel writing, and it’s easy to see how the book, film and album she picked influenced her. They are “What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding” by Kristin Newman, “La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)” and Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”

Find more from Birmingham magazine at bhammag.com, and follow Julia on Twitter and Instagram.

You can follow our hosts on social media: Carla Jean Whitley on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram; John Hammontree on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram; and Matt Scalici on Twitter.

Triple Take episode 10: Arc Stories’ Taylor Robinson

Taylor RobinsonHave you been to a live storytelling event?

No?

Then you should probably drop everything and, if you’re in Birmingham, Alabama, buy tickets to the Sept. 17 Arc Stories.

If you’re out of town, try the Arc Stories podcast instead. (Or drive to Birmingham. It’s a great place.)

This week, Arc Stories Director Taylor Robinson joined us on Triple Take. Taylor cofounded the Birmingham-based live storytelling event about five years ago, and in the years since it’s grown to a regularly standing-room-only crowd.

Taylor offered insight into how “Jaws,” Billy Joel’s “The Stranger” and the Bible shaped him into the storyteller he is today.

You can follow our hosts on social media: Carla Jean Whitley onFacebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram; John Hammontree onFacebook, Twitter and Instagram; and Matt Scalici on Twitter.

Triple Take episode 9: Art in the news

Triple Take 9

Great news, podcast fans! Triple Take is moving to a weekly schedule.

But hey, booking guests takes time (a lot of it, actually). We’ve got many exciting folks on the lineup, but this week we’ve taken another tack. Rather than interviewing someone about the book, album and film that shaped him or her, we’re looking at three pieces of art in the news.

This week’s discussion focuses on the comic-book film “Suicide Squad,” Laurence Leamer’s “The Lynching” and the lack of a new Frank Ocean album.

You can follow our hosts on social media: Carla Jean Whitley on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram; John Hammontree on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram; and Matt Scalici on Twitter.

 

Triple Take episode eight: Secret Stages cofounder Jon Poor

Jon Poor triple takeIs asking a musician to name a single album that shaped him akin to asking a parent to choose a favorite child?

Doesn’t matter. We did it anyway.

Secret Stages co-founder and Birmingham musician Jon Poor is the latest Triple Take guest. In advance of the sixth annual festival, which runs Friday and Saturday, we asked Poor to tell us about the book, film and album that most shape him. His answers: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Star Wars” and Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue.”

Learn more about Secret Stages (and buy tickets!) at secretstages.net. You can also follow our hosts: Carla Jean Whitley on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram; John Hammontree on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram; and Matt Scalici on Twitter.