River Cities Reader Podcast

River Cities Reader Podcast


Latest Episodes

August 10, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Meg 2: The Trench,” “Theater Camp,” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
August 10, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the hypnotic qualities of Levoras lava lamp, as well as stuff cinematic. Schulz, sadly, did not like Meg 2: The Trench as much as he did the

August 3, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Haunted Mansion,” “Talk to Me,” and “The Baker”
August 03, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the utter failure of Haunted Mansion, both as a film (a cast whose individual comic sensibilities jar against one another) and a money-making

July 13, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One," “Sound of Freedom,” “Joy Ride,” and “Insidious: The Red Door”
July 13, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about their varying levels of enthusiasm for the forthcoming Wonka film. Schulz isnt on board for it, whereas Levora and Pitra sound intrigued by w

July 6, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny,” “Past Lives,” and “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken”
July 06, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the terrific time he had watching Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with his family, all two-and-a-half hours of it. Its not a great mov

June 29, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Asteroid City” and “No Hard Feelings”
June 29, 2023

Mike Schulz begins his session with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about Mel Brookss ninety-seventh birthday. Levora shares a fantastic anecdote Brooks shared with Judd Apatow his experience in World W

“Who’s the Boss?”, Applesauce, Tony Danza — Not at a Loss, and Very Much Present: Aaron Dail Talks with the Man, May 4
June 25, 2023

Anthony Dail talks with Tony Danza, the son of a Brooklyn garbageman and a graduate of the University of Dubuque, about the great good fortune of his career, whose embers started glowing onTaxi (1978

Between What the Government Can’t Talk About and What It Won’t, We Survive, Somehow — Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the June Edition of River Cities’ Reader
June 25, 2023

River Cities Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with Aaron Dail and his buddy Gary re the highlights of Issue N 1010: Link: Rule of Law and Its Breaches Reflect a Nations People Dail asks McGreev

Aaron Dail Interview with Andrew Lehman, New John Deere Classic Tournament Director, June 20
June 25, 2023

Aaron Dail talks with Andrew Lehman about the big gets for this years John Deere Classic Tournament. Among them is West Des Moiness Caitlin Clark, the celebrated Hawkeyes basketball guard, the clos

Aaron Dail Interview w Fanny Curtat, June 21, re "Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,”
June 23, 2023

In the Crows segment Akira Kurosawas 1990 film Dreams, Akira Terao portrays an art student. The student views the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh one minute, and the next he steps inside the canvas,

June 23, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Elemental” and “The Flash”
June 22, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how, despite the warning signs, he didnt hate Elemental, the latest Disney/Pixar animated joint. Given the film concerns anthropomorphic elem