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The Old Literary Cafe Talk Show. Episode 35. Dennis Barrie.

Lara interviews the internationally recognized Art Museum director Dennis Barrie. At the beginning of the interview lara and Dennis talk about his turbulent time as the Director of the Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990 during the Robert Mapplethorpe

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The Old Literary Cafe Talk Show Episode 34, John Ewing.

Lara interviews the Cleveland Cinematheque’s John Ewing. The interview is interupted at 7:33 for a caller who asks “what happened to former host Chad Stanley, at 15:02 for “The Nixon Tapes” a short film by Rick Mowat and Marty Grabstein,

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President of the now defunct Tremont branch of the Language Foundry visits the Literary Cafe.

It was good to see mid 00′s Tremont catalyst J. Makkos (who’s now living in New Orleans) this past weekend. Wow, now I’m starting to look back at the 00′s nostalgically. Here at the Lit he’s best known for his

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Old Literary Cafe Talk Show, episode 33. David Hansen, Marq Ire.

Lara interviews theater person David Hanson who was the director of the Guerilla Theatre Company in Tremont from 1992 thru 1994. In this interview taped in January of 2000 he promotes his latest (at that time) project the Bad Epitaph

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Hurray for our baseball team and Russell Branyan in particular.

Just a little good cheer for the fine town that the Literary Cafe resides in. The video was created as a homage to Russel Branyan by me back in the Summer of 2000 when it seemed like Russel Branyan could

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The Old Literary Cafe Talk Show. Episode 32, Howie Green.

Lara’s third show to appear on Cable Access 53 was a long interview of former Cleveland Radio personality at WENZ-FM, “The End”, Howie Green. The interview is interrupted multiple times starting at 6:08 by a Malcom Ryder skit about making

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The Old Literary Cafe Talk Show, episode 31. Sally Winter, Marie Toledo.

0:00 – Lara interviews Sally Winter from the Ohio Arts Council. The interview focuses in on the grant process. 14:01 – Tremont Art Walk Promo 14:54 – Lara interviews Marie Toledo. The topic is Marie’s Native American Heritage. 22:22 –

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The old Literary Cafe Talk Show, episode 30. Dimititra Pasalis and Lorna Santiago.

Lara makes her debut as the host with interviews of the Artist Dimititra Pasalis (00:37) and the Fashion Designer Lorna Santiago (15:30). At 20:48 there’s a mini-fashion show of her work. Breaking up the interviews at 14:50 is “Dr. Cutter”

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The last Second Thursday of the Month Poetry Reading: Danilee Eichorne.

Recorded at the Literary Cafe’s last Second Thursday of the Month Poetry Reading. 12/10/09. The evening featured a smorgasbord of All-Star featured readers that had read in the series over the past 4 years.

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The last Second Thursday of the Month Poetry Reading: Dan Smith.

Recorded at the Literary Cafe’s last Second Thursday of the Month Poetry Reading. 12/10/09. The evening featured a smorgasbord of All-Star featured readers that had read in the series over the past 4 years. Dan Smith was one of the

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