The Colin McEnroe Show
Episodes
Mystery Surprise Monday Theater 3000 (Ep. 2)
04 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of our new Monday shows where right up to show time, I'm not 100% sure what we're talking about. I know for sure we'll discuss the time ch...
The Nose: Selfies at Funerals and Other Assorted Opportunists
01 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Nose we're stuffed into the facade of the XL Center in Hartford on Trumbull Street. Come on over and join the live audience.We got interest...
Connecticut Legends & Lore
31 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ok, Ok, you're a super-rational public radio listener but you live in a place drenched in supernatural legend. In fact, historians like David Hall and...
Is Work the Best Place to Work?
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I've been writing a newspaper column for The Hartford Courant since 1982. For my first 15 years or so, I tended to write the column at The Hartfo...
A Scrutinization of Salt
29 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Salt! It's the only rock we eat!That gets us into some touchy territory. Some say that salt is a major factor for high blood pressure, and some say th...
Mystery Surprise Monday Theater 3000
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What do Lou Reed, President Taft, and this past weekend's violence in New Haven have in common? They're all part of our first episode of Mystery ...
The Nose Runs...to New Haven
25 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On The Nose this week, a viral video musical tribute to Chinese food triggers cries of racism, a father welcoming his fourth daughter into the wo...
Why You Should Be Really Afraid of the American Power Grid Going Dark
24 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The electrical grid has been described as the glass jaw of American industry. According to some reports, we’re just one solar flare or cyber-attack ...
Hop on the Troubadour Train!
22 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Today you're going to meet the new State Troubadour, Kristen Graves, and renew your acquaintance with three former troubadours.Support the show: http:...
We're Swimming in Garbage
22 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to believe that each one of us throws away over seven pounds of trash every day, adding up to about 102 tons over a lifetime. In part, that'...
The Evolution of Animal Research
18 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Almost every cure and treatment of diseases exists thanks to medical research on animals. Through animal research, we can understand the addictive nat...
The Nose: Why We Love It When Actors Break Character
18 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A popular video this week was a highlight reel of Stephen Colbert being unable to stay in character as a pompous, self-pleased right wing blowhard. In...
America's Greatest Living Film Critics Round Up Fall Movies From "Gravity" to "Rush"
16 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Watching the movie "Captain Phillips" -- in which Tom Hanks plays a commercial freighter captain kidnapped by Somali pirates -- I had a sense of deja ...
Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Salute to Macbeth
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's probably an accident that there are so many ways to experience the story of Macbeth right now.We seem to be living in a moment where ambition has...
What Urinals, Jock Straps, Flip Shades and Eye Black Teach Us About Baseball
14 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's become a cliché to say everything has a story, but in baseball, you could make the argument that everything really does. Eve...
Here's How to Feel Less Guilty When You Buy Stuff
14 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Consumer activism is older than the nation. The colonists’ rejection of British imports started a tradition of voting with your knife, fork, teacup ...
The Nose Goes to New Haven to Sniff Out the Poopetrator
11 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We're in New Haven today, and The Nose, our weekly culture panel, wants to talk about the hazards of 3D movies and the increasingly competitive world ...
I Wish I Hadn't Done That!
10 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I really meant to donate to the NPR fund drive. I just forgot. Well, actually I didn't. But still, I should have donated. I feel so guilty! Guilt is a...
"The System" of College Football and the NFL's Concussion Crisis
09 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of a new Frontline documentary is a simple question - does playing football expose you to life-threatening brain damage?It's a question p...
Third Party Candidates We Won’t Call Fringe
07 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With the November municipal elections approaching there have been some nasty battles involving alternative parties fighting their way onto the ballot....
Forty Years, in Search of a Zipless F---
07 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Fear of Flying sold 18 million copies worldwide and helped tip feminism into a new focus on fulfilled sexuality. But it also introduced a meme so perv...
Why Beauty and Politics Are So Hard To Marry
04 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As Slate embarks on a quixotic search for the "most beautiful woman in the world," The Nose will examine how feminine beauty plays a role in Amer...
Naked, Afraid, and At The Mercy of Producers
02 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"Reality TV" is perhaps the biggest misnomer in the entertainment industry today. A better name would probably be "scripted unscripted television." It...
Breaking Bad and the Chemistry Classroom
01 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Now that we're reeling at the prospect of life after "Breaking Bad," let's find out about the real lives of chemistry teachers! Hear from Dr. Donna Ne...
Leaning Left
01 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
David Wolman visited a Scottish castle designed for left-handed sword fights, and a Paris museum to inspect 19th century brains. He observed chimps wi...
Tales From A Thousand And One Stand-Up Shows
27 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You could say that most of the live comedy done by young performers in cities around the United States is just one big feeder system for Saturday Nigh...
The Nose Will Not Woo You With A Sandwich
26 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What can a sandwich say about a relationship? It turns out, a lot. What very well may have been an inside joke between a young couple turned into a co...
Why Playing 'The Dating Game' Adds To A Rose-Bowl-Sized Pile Of Trash
26 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe you've heard the numbers. An estimated 40 percent of food in the United States never gets eaten. Americans waste 160 billion pounds of...
Catholics Perk Up To Pope Francis
25 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As a shot in the dark, this week I asked my rather large Facebook audience whether any of them were lapsed Catholics thinking about tiptoeing back to ...
The Ebb and Flow Of Dada
23 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's an art form that came out of the chaos of World War One, when times were desperate, yet the art world was still celebrating still lifes, landscap...
What Happens When Private Groups Save Public Parks?
20 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
New Havenites reclaiming a beautiful park in their city got us thinking about urban parks in general. Frederick Law Olmsted is the undisputed father o...
More on Mascots
20 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We first got interested in the people inside sports team mascots back in 2010 but that was before we knew about Kelly Frank. Kelly Frank has done...
A Crash Course On How Infinity Works
19 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Infinity is weird. It's neither even nor odd. It's not a number. Really, it's just a concept we use to summarize that which we can't understand.Suppor...
A Conversation with Eric Deggans on Race & Media
18 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You can read a lot into media depictions of minorities.Richard Pryor was hilarious at it. One time he said he had just seen a movie called "Loga...
Joe Manganiello Stars In 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
17 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It just goes on and on. We're in New Haven today where the Yale Rep is getting ready to mount a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," but there's ...
Who's Afraid of Gilbert and Sullivan?
16 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"This is worse than that time we did that Gilbert and Sullivan parody.” That was a Tina Fey line from 30 Rock, and it was a devastating punch at a s...
The Nose Goes Shirtless
13 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week's New York City primaries featured a an intern-groper, a Scrabble harasser, a hooker user and, of course, a Weiner tweeter. And guess what? ...
Tipping the Scales Away From Tipping
12 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You may eat out a lot, but do you really have tipping figured out?Or do you stress about whether you left the right amount?Would you be happier with a...
For Roommates, Unexpected Challenges, and Joys
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A roommate will either get on your last nerve or change your life for the better. In my freshman year, I was assigned to live with two foot...
Breasts In The Sports World
10 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You could argue that two trends are in a state of modern collision. Women are hitting puberty earlier than they used to, and their breasts are arrivin...
How Asexuals View The World
09 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, asexuals seem like brothers and sisters from a distant solar system. Western societies are gradual...
The Nose Outlines Its Outrage With Chappelle, Line Cutters, And Always Following The Rules
06 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Come on, you must be outraged about something! These are the headlines: "Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines a...
The Compelling Life Of Michael Bolton
04 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Bolton has reinvented himself many times. A few years ago, he cut off his trademark hair. He put out an album of opera arias and another...
Searching For J.D. Salinger In A New Biography
03 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
If you seek parallels between J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon they're easy to find. Both were literary geniuses. Both were publicity-shunning re...
In A World Of Voice Overs... "In A World" Is The Tip Of The Iceberg
29 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Thirteen years ago, I wrote an amusing but fairly ignorant op-ed piece for The New York Times triggered by watching a planetarium movie narrated by To...
Maybe Disco Doesn't Suck ...
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Through the lens of time, the anti-disco backlash looks a little ugly. What was disco, really? It started as an underground dance movement propelled b...
Prenatal Massage, Hypnobirthing, And Other Ways To Manage Having A Baby
30 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Home birthing? Doulas? Midwives? Hypnobirthing? Prenatal massage? Today, we’re talking about alternative birthing.Fifty years ago, it was pretty sim...
The Life & Times Of Broadcast Legend Ivor Hugh
25 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Let me tell you, in the bluntest possible manner, why we're doing a show with Ivor Hugh today.Last year, I had the idea of doing a show that would hav...
Summer Songs 2013 With Wally, Joan, And Eric!
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You know who needs this show today?Me.I'm having a musically starved summer, at least in terms of modern recorded music. I've made it out to some live...
A Conversation With Peter Tork
25 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John Lennon said they were the greatest comedy team since the Marx Brothers.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener fo...
The Comeback Of Pipe Smoking
12 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
If you're not a hobbit or a college professor, smoking a pipe is a differentiator. It's a signal to the world that your tastes run in a sli...
Punch Brothers Break Through
04 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Today, hear a live, in-studio performance by and conversation with the Punch Brothers, before their performance at Jorgensen Theater at UConn, Storrs....
Live From A Forest: Discussing Hiking, Archaeology, Invasives & Connecticut's Trails
09 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
There are more than 800 miles of Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails in Connecticut. Today we're doing our show from one of them. Support the show: http://...
Attack Of The Invasive Species
18 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The problem with invasive species is, of course, that they compete for resources with local species, and sometime they're a lot better at it. and some...
Jill Sobule Live!
14 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
[Featured on the Audio to the left: A one-hour conversation and performance with and by Sobule in which she sings "Jetpack" and "Heroes" and some rari...
Exploring Prom Night In America
10 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
It's just a dance, right?Actually, maybe that's the last thing the prom is. Maybe the photo is even more important, because it freezes you. It's your ...
The Life Of Languages
12 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of made-up languages with big fans. You may have heard of Na'vi from the movie Avatar, or Elvish from Lord of the Rings. Among fans, m...
A History of Connecticut's Death Penalty
31 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty-four states use the death penalty. Sixteen do not. Connecticut does, but most of its neighboring states -- New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey,...