The Colin McEnroe Show

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 controversial essay by New York Post writer Stephanie Smith this week. Smith's tips on wooing her man via meat and bread featured such gems as:Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 food a year. Every day, that amounts to enough food to fill the Rose Bowl. Twenty-five percent of America's freshwater use goes into the production of food that is then wasted.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 church based on the recent comments of Pope Francis, who talked about rebalancing the church's priorities with possibly less emphasis on what he called an obsession with abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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, landscapes and nudes. In protest, artists began rebelling with politically aware ironic work, making bold, sometimes vicious points with their art. Times have changed, and Dada resurfaces periodically, like in the exhibition at the Pump House in Hartford.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 time inside several major league mascot costumes and she's a very funny human being with a lot of stories to tell about the abuse heaped on mascots-- as you're about to discover. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Havenites reclaiming a beautiful park in their city got us thinking about urban parks in general. Frederick Law Olmsted is the undisputed father of American city parks, including Central Park itself. He came from Hartford, and he is buried here.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 "Logan's Run." It was set in the future, and there were no black characters in it. "That means white folks ain't planning for us to be there," he said.Media critic Eric Deggans joins us today, and one of his major theses is that extremism and division make for a bad public discourse and great television. Big media, says Deggans, thrive on division and tension, whether it's on cable news shows or reality TV.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 already one playing in Dublin at the Gate. There probably hasn't been one year in the last 50 when there wasn't a significant staging of this play.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"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 similar show, Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60," in which a fictional late night comedy show attempted to wow its audience with a song about itself set to the music of "A Modern Major General." Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.