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  15 Shows to Kick Off Your Podcast Habit in 2019

  Monday, January 28, 2019 at 5 a.m.

  Stop us if you've heard this before — the podcast industry is booming. Sometime around 2014, podcasts went from niche to mainstream overnight thanks in no small part to Sarah Koenig and her unfathomably popular true crime podcast, Serial. While podcasting had, in theory, been around since the 1980s and in...

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  Starting With His Own Stories, Houstonian Luke Brawner Has Assembled a Podcast Network

  Monday, November 12, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  Three and a half years ago, Luke Brawner was commuting to work from Tomball to the Heights. As a worship leader and long time musician he was hearing more than enough music at work every day. The Fort Worth native needed something else to pass the time during the hour-long...

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  Brian Posehn, on His Way to Houston, Makes Nerdom Look Great

  Monday, May 7, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  In the world of stand-up comedy, anyone who manages acts or books them, would tell you to make your act as universal as possible. While that idea was probably great at one time, being who you are and speaking to an audience who mirrors you doesn't mean you're left to...

• Michael Shannon Is a Stern Monopoly Player

  Friday, September 11, 2015 at 9 a.m.

  LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson found out first-hand that Michael Shannon is a pretty stern Monopoly player during a recent game with the actor, who portrays a tortured Orlando real-estate baron in the upcoming 99 Homes. Nicholson and Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl open this week's Voice Film...

• The Best and Worst of Summer 2015 Movies

  Friday, August 28, 2015 at 8 a.m.

  Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with Amy Nicholson of the LA Weekly, run down the worst and best of the movies they saw this summer, which as summers go, wasn't so terrible! Among the best performances were those by Sam Elliott, wonderful in two movies,...

• Podcast: You Are Now About to Witness the Strength of Streep Knowledge

  Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 9 a.m.

  Meryl Streep in a comedic role is one of the few good things in Ricki and the Flash, and the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton sands down many of the rough corners of the ground-breaking rap group's controversial history. On this week's Voice Film Club, Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek...