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Highlights from Toronto include a Demetre Chiparus bronze that still fetches 6 figures.

Anthony Chase and Peter Hall discuss the 2019 ARTIE AWARDS (think Tony Awards for Buffalo) which have been delayed for almlost 18 months.

Anthony & Peter talk about Lockport's Taylor Theater and a very good 39 STEPS as well as the equally funny THANKSGIVING PLAY at Ujima. Teal Wicks rocks the role of "Anne Hathaway" in & JULIET at Shea's, Anthony saw SUNSET BLVD. on Broadway, and was there to see Stephen McKinley Henderson inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.For 32 years (as of November 2024), Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45am, 8:45am, and 5:45pm Fridays on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. NOTE: Theater listings are included with the podcast. As part of BTPM (Buffalo Toronto Public Media), their beat is primarily Buffalo theater, but Broadway, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, and Chautauqua are covered as are other relevant art forms for the stage, including ballet and opera.

In the past eight months, a video of a young guitarist playing a modern version of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major has become a sensation on the Internet. The video has been viewed on YouTube.com more than 7.6 million times -- but nobody knew the identity of the guitarist. Recently, that changed.

Rosie the Riveter became an iconic symbol of the millions of women who worked industrial jobs during WWII. Dozens, now in their 90s and 100s, are accepting a Congressional gold medal on their behalf.

Singer and musician David Johansen was the lead singer for the 70s pre-punk punk rock band New York Dolls. Later he performed as Buster Poindexter, a pompadour tuxedo wearing lounge lizard swing bandleader of the band Banshees in Blue. Now he has a new roots-music band and a new album of straight blues, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths. (Chesky Re

In 1977 The Sex Pistols brought the urgency back to rock music, which was overburdened with superstars and long guitar solos. The band recorded only one record and their attempt at a U.S. tour in 1978 ended in abrupt chaos and the demise fo the band. Now 18 years later the Sex Pistols are back and their U.S. tour begins this evening. Reviewer Mark Jenkins looks at the influence of the band and listens to their new live recording Filth Lucre Live. (4:30) (IN S

(B-R-FIVE-FOUR-NINE) is the latest band that everyone is saying will save Nashville from overproduced mediocrity. BR5-49 got its' start playing in a boot store on a makeshift stage...tearing through the kind of honkey tonk that would make Ernest Tubb proud. The band is also credited with helping to revive a rundown neighborhood of Nashville. Now the band is up for a Grammy for Best Performance by a Country Duo or Group. Steve Lickteig

Another boy band? Hardly. 2gether is sort of a Spinal Tap for the turn of the century. The group was "created" as a parody of such boy bands as N'Sync. A mockumentary called, 2gether, aired on MTV earlier this year and a strange thing happened. The parody band generated 300 fan Websites; the soundtrack hit the charts; and Britney Spears asked the parodists to open for her last tour. It gets weirder. The musicians have started to take themselves seriously. Alix Spiegel reports.

Diamond has sold 128 million records and written and recorded 37 Top 40 songs. But in the early 1960s, rock historian Ed Ward says, Diamond was writing songs for other musicians while struggling to get his own career off the ground.