The Jagar Morning Show presents:
DreaMonique gives you the HOT TOPICS!!!
Adriana Duarte gives you the 411 in the community
DJ Jagar The Jagar Morning Show July 14th, 2024
Posted In: Music, Music Shows, News
Women & Politics presents:
When she was four years old, Senator Ghazala Hashmi immigrated with her mother and older brother from India to the United States; they joined her father in Georgia just as he was completing his doctoral work in international relations and beginning his university teaching career. Ghazala grew up in that small college town, at a time when public schools were being desegregated. She saw firsthand how communities can be built and dialogue promoted through intentional efforts to bridge cultural, racial, and socioeconomic divisions. Ghazala earned a BA in English from Georgia Southern University and a PhD in American literature from Emory University in Atlanta.
Ghazala and her husband moved as newlyweds to the Richmond area in 1991, and she spent nearly 30 years as professor, teaching first at the University of Richmond and then at Reynolds Community College. While at Reynolds, she also served as the Founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). She and Azhar have two adult daughters who were both born and raised in Midlothian, completed their K-12 education in Chesterfield County Public Schools, and attended Virginia public institutions of higher education.
First elected to office in November 2019, Senator Ghazala Hashmi represented the 10th Senatorial District within the Virginia General Assembly, which included parts of Richmond City, Chesterfield County, and all of Powhatan County. As a result of state-wide redistricting in 2021, Senator Hashmi is seeking reelection in the new 15th Senatorial District in the November 2023 elections. This new Senate district includes parts of the City of Richmond and Chesterfield County. She is the first Muslim and the first South Asian American to serve in the Virginia Senate.
Senator Hashmi serves as the Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Public Education, and she sits on the following Senate committees: Education and Health; Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources; General Laws and Technology; and Local Government. As an experienced educator and advocate of inclusive values and social justice, she identifies education, equity, the environment, and healthcare access as top legislative priorities.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics July 11th, 2024
Posted In: Music, Music Shows, News
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Remembering Gene Wilder looks at the comic actor’s films, including interviews with Mel Brooks, Alan Alda and Harry Connick, Jr. It played Richmond as part of the Weinstein JCC’s Israeli & Jewish Film Festival last January. Since it just dropped on Netflix, I’m “remembering” my interview with Ron Frank (billed as the director) & Glenn Kirschbaum (writer). Topics include:
– Mel Brooks and his great stories
– Why Harry Connick. Jr.?
– Using Wilder’s own voiceover
– Finding hilarious outtakes from Young Frankenstein
– The Alzheimer’s connection
LINKS
Remembering Gene Wilder (Netflix)
48HR Film Project
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear June 28th, 2024
Women & Politics presents:
We are sharing our platform and bringing you the the candidates from this week’s Mayoral Forum. Next week will be part 2. Listen, learn, and vote!
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Carol Olson Women & Politics June 27th, 2024
Posted In: Music, Music Shows, News
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Paul Serwitz has made his career as a film buyer, including 25 years for Regal Cinemas and most recently, President and COO of Landmark Theatres. He’s now consulting as a distributor for Roadside Attractions and has lots of interesting insights into the biz of buying and distributing films, including.
– Outlook for 2025 and beyond
– Upcoming films from CinemaCon
– Musical trailers with no music
– Theatrical windows
– The 4-audience quadrants
– How movies are marketed now
– Why horror movies open almost every week
– What is Day and Date releasing
– Attending the Oscars
LINKS
Good 4 Her (film screening)
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear June 21st, 2024
Women & Politics presents:
As a multi-hyphenated creative and serial entrepreneur, I don’t have time for fluff, boring strategies, or playing small- that same energy provide my clients and communities. I know that business owners and other creatives don’t have the time as well and my job is to take on the burden of all the things that keep you from your craft and purpose. I specialize in merging social media tactics with sustainable, long-term strategies to build brand identity for businesses that translate to their audiences. Not too long ago, I struggled with social media especially around the numbers of the game. I had very relatable and creative content but didn’t know how to turn that into results such as conversion and brand awareness. It was only when I realized the secret sauce was strategy, consistency, and authenticity. That formula would also be applied to my production and creative direction work. It is a formula that I hold true to my heart. I have creative directed a plethora of photoshoots and large productions over the past decade, have created event content for my community of clients since 2020, and I’ve had the honor of producing my very first music video in 2022.
That is what I bring to the table to help reach your goals with social media, production, event content creation, and creative direction- my years of experience, natural-born talent, and heart for breathing life into any creative vision whether my own or others. I’ve been doing this work for 11+ years and seek to continue to find tribes of folks who want to alchemize the world. As you evolve with me and I grow with you, everything we manifest through this partnership will come to fruition with the space to learn, educate, and push boundaries.
With a B.A. in Communications from James Madison University and currently located in Richmond, VA, I help busy people with big dreams to build THRIVING businesses, brands, and content WITHOUT sacrificing the beautiful things in life or their sanity. You are officially exactly where you need to be. If you like what you see and hear so far, I am only one vision call away. I can’t wait to be your strategist, manager, producer, or creative director.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics June 20th, 2024
Posted In: Music, Music Shows, News
WRIR Presents: Discussing Disability (1st) & Final Friday Signal Boost presents:
Hosted by Nate Wise. This month’s episode focuses on volunteering!
One Hit Wanda WRIR Presents: Discussing Disability (1st) & Final Friday Signal Boost June 14th, 2024
Posted In: Local, News, Volunteering
POP Goes The World! presents:
enzo POP Goes The World! June 7th, 2024
Posted In: Music Shows, News
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
In UNFROSTED Bailey Sheetz is discovered by Jerry Seinfeld’s character in a dumpster eating what would become a Pop-Tart. This young actor has a funny part in the new Netflix hit that was written, directed and stars Jerry Seinfeld. Our lively interview covers much more than any of the local print stories, including:
– His relationship to the gas station/restaurant with the same last name
– His love of antiques, esp. vacuum cleaners
– Being called “an old soul” on Big Little Shots with Melissa McCarthy
– His first role as the voice of a squirrel for Apple
– Working with Seinfeld, McCarthy and Jim Gaffigan
– Flying on top of a truck
– Almost getting strangled by a candy necklace
LINKS
My review of UNFROSTED
Podcast on Pine Grove School
The vacuum cleaner episode was on How to with John Wilson, Season 3, Ep 4 of (my 5-star review)
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear June 7th, 2024
Brain Box presents:
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… Quetzalcoatlus northropi?!? Timshel Purdum, the Science Museum of Virginia’s Virginia C. Ellett Deputy Director of Education, is back in WRIR studios to tell us about this prehistoric creature. While the Quetzalcoatlus has been long extinct (it lived at the same time as the dinosaurs… but it’s not a dinosaur!), you can experience for yourself what they were like at the SMoVA where a 3-D life-size replica has recently been installed in the Speed exhibit. There’s also a 2-D sculpture that you can stand next to and see for yourself how huge these ancient bird-like creatures were.