My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews photographer Henry VanderSpek aka Culture Snap Photography whose latest exhibition Old World Shoes is on now!

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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer, actor, director and now video game developer Jeff Sinasac for his latest video game: Stop the Saturnians! out now on Steam.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer Kat Rosenfield whose latest novel is No One Will Miss Her a fantastic murder mystery thriller.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Fanny Curtat an art historian behind Beyond Monet an Immersive Experience. (Now screening in Toronto until February 27, 2022!)

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Gay AF Comedy producer and host Robert Watson whose latest live show in association with Campbell House Museum presents Courtyard Comedy. An outdoor physically distanced summer comedy series of four shows, taking place Saturday afternoons in August 2021 in the Campbell House.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Sean Sirianni “videographer, hack comedian and host” of the Creative Imbalance podcast.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Virginia Abramovich whose multiverse thriller is Between Waves.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Heather Ross for her comedy documentary For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close. (Now screening on Hulu.)

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Andrew Farago Curator at Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Their current exhibition is The Legend of Wonder Woman celebrating the superb superhero’s 80th anniversary.

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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews designers Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams whose work, lives and their Massive Change Network are celebrated and examined in the Mau: Documentary.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Mads Hedegaard whose documentary is Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest. “With the help of his friends from Bip Bip Bar, Kim Cannon Arm attempts to be the first in the world to play Gyruss for 100 hours.”

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Craig Pryce who wrote and directed the feature film The Marijuana Conspiracy.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Paul Kemp for his sports/running documentary Nike’s Big Bet. (Now on Peacock, CBC Gem and other worldwide platforms.)

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews composer David Barrett the writer behind One Shining Moment the stirring March Madness anthem that concludes each basketball tournament since 1987.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews musician Andrew Farriss who along with Michael Hutchence were the primary songwriters in INXS; now as solo artist he’s released an EP (Love Makes The World) and a self-titled LP.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Penny Lane director of the Bill Simmons directed Listening to Kenny G. Now streaming on HBO Max as part of the Music Box series.

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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer and director Courtney Paige who co-wrote and directed The Sinners.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Lesley Chilcott who executive produced and directed Helter Skelter: An American Myth. (Of course: Charles Manson.)

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews cabaret comedian Shirley Gnome whose latest comedy-music releases are: Decoxification (an LP) and Quantity Time (an EP).

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer-director Steven Kostanski who latest feature is the splatter-comedy Psycho Goreman.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Jamie Allan an iMagician who has conceived Illusionarium an experiential exhibition that employs state-of-the-art technology to reveal the history of magic.

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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Lighthouse Immersive producers Corey Ross and Svetlana Dvoretsky who’ve produced the dynamic Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit.

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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Forbes writer Zack O’Malley Greenburg whose third financial book is A-List Angels: How a Band of Actors, Artists, and Athletes Hacked Silicon Valley.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Kyle Thrash whose documentary on Philadelphia Eagles fandom is Maybe Next Year.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer & director (& stuntman!) BJ Verot whose horror/sci-fi movie is The Return.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews horror writer and film programmer Carolyn Mauricette about the Blood In The Snow Film Festival.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews the Sam Roberts of the Sam Roberts Band whose latest album is All Of Us.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews to Vancouver comedian Randee Neumeyer whose debut comedy album is Bad Baby.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Cavan Campbell whose psychological horror short film is Receiver.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews astronaut painter Scott Listfield about his dynamic paintings and Quarantine his recent solo show at Spoke Art NYC.

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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer Ryan North who (along with Albert Monteys) skillfully adapted Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five as a graphic novel.

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Hopefully in this Universe the you that exists and persists…really enjoys reading poetry. If so then check out Shared Universe.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews stand up comic Stuart Jones whose debut comedy album is By The Slice.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Robert McCallum about his current documentary Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and his upcoming documentary: Documenting Mr. Dressup.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan comic book artist and writer Tom Scioli whose latest “issues” are Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics (a graphic novel biography on Jack Kirby) and Fantastic Four: Grand Design (which removes the seams from the FF’s comic book continuity.).

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho with Alexandre O. Philippe director of 78/52 a documentary on the iconic Psycho shower scene. Yes just the shower scene…not the whole movie.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews pop culture writer/curator Whitney Matheson who along with Dean Haspiel co-edited Pandemix: Quarantine Comics in the Age of ‘Rona a comic book anthology.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director David Oster whose SYFY documentary Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t documents the comic book creator.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer David Kamp whose latest book is Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Lulu Wei whose documentary There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace explores redevelopment, gentrification, and displacement following the end of Honest Ed’s.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews co-host of Talking Raptors and comedian Nick Reynoldson whose debut comedy album is I’ll Be Fine.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer David Sax author of The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth.

“He’s back to pull a rabbit out of a…piñata? Justin Willman always surprises with frisky magic skills that amuse and charm, trick and disarm.” Yes Yes Y’all: Magic for Humans is back for a third season. Woot! Woot!

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Justin Willman comedian, magician, and host of Magic for Humans which returns with a third season on Netflix.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews comedian Pat Barker who’ll be representing Philadelphia in the Coast to Coast Roast.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews D.W. Young director of The Booksellers a behind-the-scenes documentary set in the New York rare book world.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews musician and guitarist Jesse Cook who was all set to embark on the Tempest 25 Tour.

My Summer Lair Sammy Younan interviews Wonder Years narrator, actor and director Daniel Stern who stars in James vs His Future Self.

“A young scientist James (Jonas Chernick) finds his life turned upside down when he’s visited by his crotchety future self (Daniel Stern) who tries to talk him out of creating time travel. But when younger James won’t go along with future James plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself!”

“How the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process — a bold plan to get to first by becoming the worst.”

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews sports journalist Joe Posnanski author of The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer, conjuror, magic creative consultant David Ben for the AGO’s exhibition Illusions: The Art of Magic.

Shadow Network details the intertwining of Christian-Americans with Koch brothers and other similar nefarious types. Focus on the Family, 700 Club, Left Behind books…this book went through all the cheeze we’ve been surrounded with growing up in the church or in pop culture in general. (Nicolas Cage starred in the 2014 Left Behind movie.) Whew.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews author and journalist Anne Nelson whose latest book is Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews comedian Dave Harris whose comedy album Pointless is out now.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Andy Palmer whose latest horror movie is Camp Cold Brook starring Chad Michael Murray and Danielle Harris.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews writer Meghan Daum whose latest and greatest book is The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews actress Laura Mennell who plays Mimi Hynek on Project Blue Book. Mimi is the real-life wife of ufologist Josef Allen Hynek on which this fantastic Robert Zemeckis sci-fi tv show is based.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews supa dope band Featurette about their latest album Dream Riot. One of the singles off Dream Riot is You Do You a video that features…Sammy all smiling and he’s joined by so many other cool and creative individuals. Check it out!

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Richard Lowenstein whose documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence deftly explores the life and tragedy of the INXS front man we lost in 1997.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Ali Hassan stand up comic (We Ain’t Terrorists), performer of his one-man show Muslim, Interrupted and his fantastic CBC work: as host of Laugh Out Loud and Canada Reads; and the occasional guest host of Q. We also happily talk about ribs!

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Elizabeth Semmelhack the Creative Director and Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum and author of two excellent books on sneakers and sneaker culture: Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture and Sneaker X Culture: Collab.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan is at Blood In The Snow Film Festival media day: the first interview is with the Dead Dicks duo Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer followed by actress Paula Brancati and director Erin Berry who are behind Majic.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with director Audrey Cummings whose genre movie She Never Died (sister sequel to the 2015 Henry Rollins movie: He Never Died) now screening at Blood In The Snow Film Festival.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director John Walker whose documentary Assholes: A Theory (heh) is based on the 2012 book also called Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James (a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine).

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks basketball and hip hop with director Darby Wheeler co-creator of Netflix’s Hip-Hop Evolution. 3 seasons are on Netflix with the fourth and final season coming early 2020.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan happily talks with Nicholas Parisi writer of Rod Serling: His Life, Work & Imagination which explores Serling’s entire, massive body of work including The Twilight Zone.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with writer Kat Rosenfield who co-wrote/co-created A Trick of Light with Stan Lee. Together along with Ryan Silbert and Luke Lieberman they created Stan Lee’s final marvelous universe: Stan Lee’s Alliances!

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk featured in the TIFF 2019 documentary: This Is Not A Movie directed by Yung Chang.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks with folklorist and writer Henry Glassie who is featured in the TIFF 2019 documentary: Henry Glassie: Field Work.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks with legendary photographer Jamel Shabazz about hip hop, old school New York City and being a light.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with Sam Wils ceo of WingaDoos: online animated, interactive financial literacy lessons for elementary kids, parents and educators.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks with Jonah Babins magician and co-founder of The Toronto Magic Company.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks with biographer by Brian Jay Jones whose latest biography is Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks with Fred Peabody director of The Corporate Coup D’État, Phillip Martin one of the individuals in the documentary and producer Jeff Cohen during Hot Docs 2019.

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow whose new book is Radicalized.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews Iris Kim the director and lead editor and Tiana Chin the creative lead for The Night the Kids Found Out.

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My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews actor Arlen Aguayo-Stewart who can be seen in the ARC production of Human Animals. It’s a play!

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews director Todd Douglas Miller whose documentary Apollo 11 reveals dynamic never-before-seen footage and audio recordings of the mission to land on the moon. It’s out now from CNN Films.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews Charles Officer the director of Invisible Essence: The Little Prince a documentary on the Little Prince’s inspiring and lasting legacy.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews Katie Douglas one of the actors in Level 16 a dystopian thriller film now playing at a cinema near you.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews Joshua Harris whose 1997 book I Kissed Dating Goodbye generated enough friction that Joshua was prompted to make the documentary I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews Daniel J. Clark director of Behind the Curve a documentary on flat earthers.

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews standup comic Harris Anderson whose latest comedy album is Above and Beyond.