Arts

Host Kenn Michael speaks with J.P. Jordan and Mary Wright about this years Christmas City Follies XIII held at Touchstone Theatre November 29 through December 22 2012.

[This piece contains information about the plots of lots of contemporary TV dramas, probably most notably a context-free discussion of an incident during the most recent season of Breaking Bad, as well as general comments on the plot of the film The Grey.]

Given tea's rap today as both a popular pick-me-up and a health elixir, it's hard to imagine that sipping tea was once thought of as a reckless, suspicious act, linked to revolutionary feminism.

“Living Green in the Lehigh Valley”

Produced by Annie Prince and co-hosted by Annie Prince and Bruce Wilson.

Aired on Tuesdays, Dec. 4 & 11 at 6 p.m. during NPR’s “On the Media” and Wednesdays, Dec. 5 & 12 at 5:45 p.m. during NPR’s “All Things Considered”.

This was a good year for cross-genre pollination. It was packed with brilliant books that stretched the boundaries of what counts as science fiction and fantasy — and even what counts as fiction itself. Authors like Ken MacLeod and G. Willow Wilson spun tales that begin as near-future dystopian science fiction, only to turn abruptly into fantastical tales of supernatural creatures. Call it magical cyberpunk realism.