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If it’s Friday, it’s Theater Talk—today with a ‘spontaneous” preview of Monday’s Artie awards Also, Correspondent Dan Karpenchuk on an expected election result in Ontario, and Karen DeWitt in Albany on debate over new gun controls limiting purchases of semi-automatic guns and body armor, and monitoring of social media hate speech .

“Buffalo, What’s Next?” hosts welcome three guests to discuss a range of topics. Ekaete Obot Bailey talks about the effectiveness of peaceful protest, local business owner Quinnae Thompson shares her recollections of the May 14th Buffalo mass shooting, and Mike Farrow, lead singer of Farrow, talks about the role music plays in delivering an anti-racist message.

The state has added license and age requirements for AR-15 rifles, puts limits on body armor purchases, and looks at microstamping of bullets in NYS. Also, libraries are facing the same supply chain issues that has hit other commodities, Pride flags have started to fly around greater Buffalo, and UB is studying workplace envy.

In this episode, WBFO Morning Edition Host Jay Moran welcomes Dennice Barr, part of Fruit Belt Leadership, to discuss healthy food access on the East Side. WBFO Managing Editor Brigid Jaipaul-Valenza speaks with Mark Talley about his mother, Geraldine Talley, one of the victims of the Buffalo Tops Shooting. Finally, WBFO’s News Director, Dave Debo, and Attorney John Elmore examines accountability that may lie beyond the suspect of this horrific crime.

For 30 years, 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 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. As part of BTPM (Buffalo Toronto Public Media) their beat is primarily Buffalo theater, but Broadway, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, and other relevant art forms including ballet and opera are covered.

This episode of “Buffalo, What’s Next?” welcomes poet Jillian Hanesworth to talk about how art can contribute to social change. Buffalo Catholic Charities Educator Harvey Miles, Jr. discusses the idea of racial truth and reconciliation in America, and Alexander Wright, President, African Heritage Food Co-op presents the need for healthy food sustainability, and how his organization is helping the community.

Elders and others of the Seneca Nation are struggling to preserve their language. The push for a ban on cryptomining- the creation of large computer operations that use huge amounts of energy to create and supervise cryptocurrency.

The accused Tops shooter is in court today, debate over the Tops store's future is underway, and a report on theft of relief supplies destined for the Jefferson Avenue neighborhood. And from Albany, Karen DeWitt reports on steps to protect abortion providers.

In this episode, “Buffalo, What’s Next?” broadcasts live just a block and a half from the shooting scene on Jefferson Avenue at the Golden Cup Café and Roastery. Our hosts sit down for three very different conversations with African historian and best-selling author Emmanuel Kulu, Sharon and Kenneth Holley, owners of Zawadi Books,and Kara Oliver-Pérez, Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Tapestry Charter School.

As part of our extensive coverage of President Biden’s visit to the Buffalo shooting scene, hear a victim’s son say “We’re hurt. ..and after all the bells and whistles are gone, we are going to have to deal with this.”