Jeff Economy

Damn, we're old! But hey, our 25th anniversary of bringing the best, coolest and oddest documentaries from around the world gives us an excuse to celebrate! Way back in 2001 the inaugural SF DocFest launched in an empty church filled with a burgeoning audience of people just like you who were curious to see real stories onscreen. So this year, to celebrate the 25th SF Documentary Festival, on Wednesday, May 27th we are presenting 3 films from our 2001 line-up at Artists' Television Access on Valencia St, with tickets specially priced at 2001 prices, only $7.50. So swing by to flashback and to experience our festival's orgins and mingle with filmmakers and other doc lovers as it will be a fun night. The lineup includes: "Atomic Ed and the Black Hole" with filmmaker Ellen Spiro in attendance. A story of a scientist-turned-atomic junk collector known as Atomic Ed. More than 30 years ago, Ed quit his job making “better” atomic bombs and he began collecting what he calls “nuclear waste,” non-radioactive high-tech discards from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "Plaster Caster" by Jessica Villines & Jeff Economy - One rock ‘n’ roll legend (or legendary footnote) determined not to just fade away, supergroupie Cynthia Plaster Caster notoriously began making sculptural molds of rock stars’ private parts some 50 years ago. "Gibtown: The Movie" by Melissa Edmon (Shachat) - An atmospheric documentary film portrait of the residents and community of Gibsonton, Florida, USA, the off-season and retirement home of thousands of circus and carnival workers. /welcome

Being curious can be fun. Have the courage to try. Show responsibility. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself. Snackpoint Charlie. Music from Elsewhere and Beyond. Wednesday May 6 at 10pm on WGXC. Tune in. LinkTree in bio.

Punk Rock Movie Club is back. May 3rd, 2pm, Catskill Community Theater. This month we're screening Danny Says — the story of Danny Fields, the man who signed the Stooges and the MC5 on the same phone call, managed the Ramones, introduced Iggy Pop to David Bowie, and somehow nobody knew his name. Harvard Law dropout. Company Freak. The missing footnote in every history of American punk. And after the film, director Brendan Toller joins us in person for a Q&A. Don't miss this one. And don't forget to evade our tech overlords by signing up for direct updates, once a month by email. punkrockmovieclub.com

New patented Snackpoint Charlie compound for coughs due to colds. Good the year ‘round. Palatable! Music from all the international avian zones for all you black-throated green warblers and black-capped chickadees out there. 10PM EST Wednesday April 15 on @wgxc_90.7fm and streaming all seasons at wgxc.org [ links in LinkTree in profile ]

Sunday April 5 at 2pm the Community Theater in Catskill and the @punkrockmovieclub presents Times Square, the cult classic punk-rock drama about two teenage girls—tough street kid Nicky (Robin Johnson) and shy runaway Pamela (Trini Alvarado)—who meet in a psychiatric hospital and escape to live on the streets of New York City. Helped by a late-night DJ (Tim Curry), they gain notoriety, forming the band “The Sleez Sisters” while navigating a gritty, early-80s NYC ***AND THAT’S NOT ALL*** Join local filmmakers Cecilia Aldarondo and Sasha Wortzel as they discuss this queer coming-of-age cult classic featuring a bygone New York, a soundtrack with Talking Heads, The Ramones, Patti Smith, The Cure, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, The Pretenders, teenage girls on the run, and Tim Curry as a rogue radio DJ

Turn back to the future or forward into the past or Ouroboros yourself into an endlessly recursive pretzel with another all-new Snackpoint Charlie, the latest chapter in our never-ending saga of musical excavation and discovery. New and newly discovered international obscurities and hits, ethnomusicological field recordings, abstract experiments + shortwave interjections yada yada yada. Tonight at 10PM ET on @wgxc_90.7fm in New York’s Hudson Valley, streaming and archived at wgxc.org [ LinkTree in bio ]

Tonight on a Snackpoint Charlie Special Presentation: a conversation with poet, actor, performer, singer, songwriter, director, and author Adele Bertei about her new book NO NEW YORK - A MEMOIR OF NO WAVE AND THE WOMEN WHO SHAPED THE SCENE, published by Beacon Press. Feminism, gentrification, the sound of metal on marble and the elusive duende, 10PM ET Weds March 18 on WGXC 90.7-FM via the airwaves and wgxc.org streaming and archived [ link in bio ]

Tonight on Snackpoint Charlie: Pre-Revolutionary Persian pop & vaguely psychedelic music (and more!) from a land and a sensibilty slowly receeding into memory which, now that I think of it, could be the general tag line for our show. 10pm ET Wednesday March 4 on @wgxc_90.7fm , streaming and archived/podcasted at wgxc.org [ links in bio ]

Thursday night in Catskill come wish WGXC a Happy Birthday 🎂 Soup, live broadcasts, performances, DJs, and community and more soup! Come on out y’all

Next Punk Rock Movie Club showing is scheduled for March 15th 2pm at the majestic The Community Theatre. Hope to see you there. Follow Punk Rock Movie Club or Sign up for our email list updates at punkrockmovieclub.com if you want to stick it to the social media overlords.

Tonight we are joined in conversation by pianist Thomas Feng in anticipation of his performance of “Night Prayers” at PS21’s Winter Festival “The Dark.” On Friday February 20, Thomas Feng will perform compositions by Ethiopian composer, pianist, and nun Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou alongside works by Beethoven and Chopin which Guèbrou kept in her room until her passing. The program, set amongst an immersive starscape installation by Andrew Schneider, conjures the rarefied stillness and spirituality of Guèbrou’s nights. Visit /event/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou/ for more info Our conversation airs at 10pm ET tonight on WGXC 90.7-FM, wgxc.org, and the Wave Farm smartphone app, and will be downloadable from WGXC’s archive thereafter [link in profile]

Snackpoint Charlie, international music, experimental stuff, blah blah blah. I’m getting over hand surgery so bear with me tonight. Some say that a person can be judged by the enemies they make as much as who they count as friends so if you share my boredom with conventional radio and flaccid music, we’ll get along just fine. 10pm tonight on @wgxc_90.7fm , wgxc.org, and the Wave Farm smartypants phone app, and in the archive forever and ever amen [ links in bio / profile yada yada ]