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Yearly Archive: 2016

Thursday

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October 2016

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Joan Embery Interview: Famed Zoological Ambassador Recalls Her Animal Escapades with Johnny Carson

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Joan Embery

Joan Embery serves as goodwill ambassador for the Zoological Society of San Diego, which includes the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Wild Animal Park in the San Pasqual Valley. Nationally known for her television appearances with animals, Embery has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Entertainment Tonight, Hollywood Squares and many others.

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Monday

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October 2016

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Trae Crowder Interview: "Liberal Redneck" Asserts, "The South Is Not This Crazy, Dystopian Wasteland of Bible-Thumping Troglodytes"

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Trae Crowder

Celina, Tennessee, native Trae Crowder and his pals Corey Ryan Forrester and Drew Morgan have taken their message to the written page in The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin’ Dixie Outta the Dark, scheduled for release by Atria Books on October 4, 2016. The three-man standup comedy group’s book includes their New South Bill of Wrongs, a take on the Bill of Rights for a New South where everyone gets along better and the Ten Commandments of the South which includes, “Thou shalt not put your God above everyone else’s life and rights” and “Thou shalt not make bad music and call it country.”

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Friday

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September 2016

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Norman Lear Interview: An American Icon Lifts the Veil on a Nation Divided

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Norman Lear

Legendary television writer/producer Norman Lear is known for producing such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Maude and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. As a political activist, he founded People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes.

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Monday

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September 2016

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Kirsten Vangsness Interview: "Criminal Minds" Star on Garcia, Cast Changes and Giving Back

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Kirsten Vangsness

Actress and writer Kirsten Vangsness is best known as the bespectacled, brainiac FBI Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. She played the same character on the now defunct spinoff series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.

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