Something (rather than nothing)

Guest host Kinneret Ely [https://www.youtube.com/@KinneretEly] interviews opera star Nicholas Tamagna [https://www.operabase.com/artists/nicholas-tamagna-13040/en] Nicholas Tamagna's meteoric rise in recent years has made him one of the world's most fascinating alto voices...

Chimen Kouri is a writer based in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey. Her work has been featured in Goat's Milk Magazine, Blood Moon Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and more. She fell in love with storytelling one Christmas morning during a power outage when she and her parents laid in bed while her father told stories about his life in Lebanon...

TJ McGowan aka The Everyday Bite [https://www.theeverydaybite.com/about] is a Bronx based writer, poet, and spoken word artist who has performed all over the Tri-State. His written work has been published in Flash Fiction Mag, Collective Unrest, 35MM, Mojave Heart, Vamp Cat, United: Red, BX Writers, to name a few. His body-autonomy poem, I Am Not Her Bones, and its incendiary performance was recipient of the 2019 Poem of the Year at the Word Masters Poetry Gala...

Mortal Emlbem [https://www.mortalemblem.com/]owner Olivia Britz-Wheat is a multimedia artist who has been tattooing for over 15 years in Portland. She hails originally from Colorado, attended college in Missoula, Montana until learning how to tattoo under Phil Roberson and Jed Dillon. Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation and regale in thoughts about art, Depeche Mode, Portland, The Lloyd Center mystique and VHS love. SRTN Website [https://www.somethingratherthannothing.com/]

ART FUN w/ Riccelle and Chelsea - hosts of the Baroque B**ches Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baroque-b-tches-an-art-history-gossip-podcast/id1714175986]! How much fun can you have on a podcast? I dunno but this was hella fun. Join this wildly ranging art, life, and raunch conversation to discover what you did not want to know but, really, c'mon, you actually really did want to know. Art Scholarship for the People!!! BB Website up in here [https://baroquebpodcast...

Death is the high cost of living. The weight of that knowledge can feel crippling but is it there we find the deepest and most important knowledge of how to live? After tragedy struck in 2013, Elizabeth Coplan turned to writing to express her personal grief. She wrote many published essays, and later, after experiencing three losses in less than a year, she turned to writing plays focused on this global experience known as death...

ALLYSON MCCABE [https://www.allysonmccabe.com/]is a journalist whose work is heard on NPR's newsmagazines, public radio stations and programs, and podcasts. Also appearing in publications such as the New York Times, New York Magazine/Vulture, BBC Culture, Wired, and Bandcamp, McCabe is also the author of WHY SINEAD O'CONNOR MATTERS, UT Press, 2023. SRTN Podcast [https://www.allysonmccabe.com/]

Katherine Yeske Taylor [https://linktr.ee/Taylorkatnyc] began her career as a rock critic in Atlanta in the 1990s, interviewing Georgia musical royalty such as the Indigo Girls, R.E.M., and the Black Crowes while still a teenager. Since then, she has conducted several hundred interviews and contributes regularly to Billboard, Flood, Spin, and American Songwriter, among others. She is a longtime New York City resident and is extremely active in the downtown rock scene. SRTN Website [https://www...

Shippentower signs with the Oregon Ravens Kola Shippentower is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. She has co-founded and is the Director of The Wisáwca Project - Enough Iz Enough, a non-profit organization working together for change, for better communication and involvement...

Minnesota musician, Katy Tessman [https://www.katytessman.com/about.html] is an optimistic and approachable singer-songwriter with a voice full of the wisdom she's gained through cancer survival, heartbreak, and motherhood. Her powerful vocals and rhythmic approach to guitar (or mandolin) express a straight-from-the-heart songwriting style that moves passionately over diverse emotional and musical terrain. SRTN Podcast [https://www.somethingratherthannothing.com/]