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Producer of Netflix Series “Dogs” & “Cat People” on “Talking Animals”

Glen Zipper—executive producer of the Netflix documentary series “Dogs,” whose second season begins airing July 7; Zipper also oversees a new feline-minded Netflix series, “Cat People,” which premieres July 7—was the guest on the June...
University of South Florida Tampa development Biology

New documentary features efforts to save the USF Forest Preserve from development

The University of South Florida has received several proposals to develop land in the USF Forest Preserve north of the Tampa campus. On WMNF’s MidPoint, host Seán Kinane spoke with Luke Myers, a USF student...

Bad Books, Bad Movies, & Polite Behavior

Since its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the...

Is Chinese investment the path to revive US factories?

Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 08/28/19 from the drop down menu https://www.wmnf.org/events/radioactivity/ Intro: Acclaimed film makers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar and a team of cinematographers spent three years documenting the revival of...
Eugene Debs, Eugene V. Debs

Film on socialist Eugene Debs coming to Tampa

Beginning in 1900, Eugene Debs ran for president five times as the candidate of the Socialist Party of America. And now the Tampa Bay Democratic Socialists of America is bringing a film about Debs to...

Women’s Show 4/12 Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival

Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival on From a Woman’s Point of View It’s Springtime… Baseball in the snow, and luckily the beginning of the Stanley Cup playoffs.  And it is also film festivals!  Through Women’s...
Tampa Bay Lightning

Documentary explores a literally cool part of black sporting history

On Saturday in South Florida, Tampa Bay Lightning winger J.T. Brown became the first NHL player to participate in a silent protest during the national anthem.  Here’s a WMNF News story from March featuring Brown:...
Image for the movie "The Circus Saved My Life"

A Tampa Filmmaker’s Trip to Mongolia Leads to a Film about Domestic Violence

Last Saturday a new film about domestic violence called “The Circus Saved My Life” was shown at the Tampa Theater. The film is by Stewart Lippe who, in addition to being a film maker, is...
Poster image for the film Nobody Speak

Was the Hulk Hogan Trial the Start of a New Assault on Freedom of the Press?

Brian Knappenberger on the film “Nobody Speak” Last year a sensational trial took place in Pinellas County in which wrestler Terry Bollea, better known by his stage name Hulk Hogan, won a $140 million judgement...
Travis Bell, Lena Young Green, Dr. Beverly Ward

Tampa’s Central Avenue: Central to Tampa History, Central to Tampa’s Transportation Future

Will the controversial TBX plan be revived? Central Avenue in Tampa is a storied place and its past, present, and future ties together African American history, police killings, walkable communities, and the future of transportation...
The mountaintop removal site at Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.

Mari-Lynn Evans, Director of “Blood on the Mountain” on Radioactivity Thursday

USF faculty launch efforts for better pay and working conditions Adjunct faculty members do a lot of work at colleges and universities. Many core courses are taught by adjuncts — professionals who are essentially part...

Women’s Show 3/30 – Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival

The unanswered questions continue…… The connections get more numerous and still the House Intelligence Committee stalls.  But the ACA and PP have survived for another day, and as the Australians would say, “Good on the...
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