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Karyn Miller-Medzon @KBMM

Here and Now (NPR) radio producer, runner, reader, writer, baker, eater, theatre-lover, chronic overscheduler

Joined March 2009
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Congrats 2 @SadieSink & playwright #KimberlyBelflower on @TheTonyAwards nods for powerhouse #Broadway #play @johnproctorbway exploring gray area btwn #hero & #predator w/ gut-wrenching drama and humor. Hear them @hereandnow @hereandnowrobin #TheCrucible wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/05/…

Broadway's 'John Proctor is the Villain' turns 'The Crucible' on its head

What if the virtuous John Proctor, the hero of Arthur Miller’s acclaimed play "The Crucible" about the Salem witch trials, is not the hero?

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#Broadway’s @MHEmusical #helperbots ask life’s most human question: is the joy of love worth invevitable loss? @DarrenCriss, #HelenJShen join @hereandnow @hereandnowrobin on the show, acting, spotlighting #Asian actors & talent. wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/04/…

Poignant, powerful and maybe prophetic: Broadway’s 'Maybe Happy Ending' packs a big punch

"Maybe Happy Ending," as funny as it is poignant, is also the first show to land on Broadway from South Korea featuring a mostly Asian cast.

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Magical show! Stay tuned Monday for our piece @hereandnow
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#joy. #dazzling. #MaybeHappyEnding. Stars @DarrenChriss and #HelenJShen as bots whose hardware is failing.But isn’t that last part true of all of us? Lucky ⁦@KBMM⁩ and me, wonderful backstage talk! Airing this week on radio and hereandnow.com ⁦@mhemusical⁩
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10,000 victims of #torture, #sexualviolence, loss, #starvation in #SubSaharan #Africa conflicts lost critical #mentalhealth support w/ @USAID cuts to Ethiopia's #CenterForVictimsofTorure @CVTorg. @hereandnowrobin talks to @AlemMedhanye wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/… #USAIDcuts #DOGE

Head of Center for Victims of Torture says USAID cuts leave thousands suffering without support

The cuts led to the closure of the group's clinics in Ethiopia.

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RT @PeterHotez: Remember: 200,000 Americans needlessly perished bc they refused Covid vaccines in 2021-22 5X increase in pertussis cases…
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.@GRM_Global trains #healthcareworkers on battlefield in war zones like #Ukraine. Recently they brought docs, nurses, residents to @BMC_EM @The_BMC to learn/practice life-saving procedures. Had the privilege to report it for @hereandnow @NPR wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/11/…

Ukrainian doctors, nurses learn skills to heal their decimated health care system

In Ukraine, the World Health Organization's last tally in August counted 1940 attacks on health care facilities and 34 health care workers killed in the first eight months of this year. That's 10...

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24 Oct 2024
Want a lovely distraction? here's our talk with cake goddess @FlourRose about her new #cakebible. producing partner @KBMM, who just about every year wins the @NPR cake contest, studied Rose's books, we all benefitted. Someday I will manage her Bakery. wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/10/…

Iconic 'Cake Bible' celebrates 35 years with revised edition featuring new tools, old classics

When Rose Levy Benanbaum’s “Cake Bible” was first published in 1988, it was as though the wheel had been re-invented.

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C’mon ⁦@amazon⁩ ! This is the last straw in term of #overpackaging. Common sense please! #waste #overuse #saveresources
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.@AyannaPressley joins @HereandNow's @DonGonyea on #JoeBiden @KamalaHarris & what's at stake 4 democrats. #Pressley touts #Harris' record on #reproductiverights, #healthcare justice, #studentdebt cancellation & more. Will it be enough to win 'undecideds'? wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/07/…

Ayanna Pressley on Biden, Harris and Democrats' future

“Kamala Harris, I’m all in. Let’s go!,”  Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley wrote Sunday afternoon in a tweet that also thanked President Biden for his service.

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The disintegration of #democracy is a slow process - sometimes imperceptible to those who’ve never experienced autocratic rule says @Levitsky2. He tells @ljmullinsworld @hereandnow Americans need 2 understand threats. #democracy #Election2024 #DonaldTrump wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/07/…

U.S. democracy is fragile. How can Americans protect it?

Americans, most of whom have never lived under autocratic rule, may have trouble recognizing what he believes is happening in the U.S.

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Pumpkin bread infused w/ Nutella! Chocolate caked w/ Amaretto and coffee! Minne Di Sant’Agata! @Renatopoliafito’s new #Dolci Cookbook is perfect marriage btwn Italian & American flavors. He joins @hereandnow @tongscott 2 discuss Dolci! & its inspirations wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/07/…

'Dolci' cookbook desserts are a marriage of Italian and American flavors

When Renato Poliafito decided to leave advertising to open a bakery, it was American pastries he paid homage to. And then, the Italian influences started creeping in.

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GREAT questions @asmamk. @NPR @JoeBiden press conference. First woman to ask a question tonight. About time 🙂
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Need a friend? How about an #AI friend? 1000s are creating them for companionship, romance, maybe a little therapy. @nytimes #tech columnist @kevinroose talks 2 @Hereandnow @tongscott about his gang of #AI friends, sometimes great, sometimes off the rails. wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/06/…

Need a companion? Therapist? Romance? Some are turning to AI friends

Kevin Roose recently wrote about a few of his friends: Peter, a therapist who lives in San Francisco; Ariana, who specializes in career advice; Naomi, a social worker named; and Jared, a fitness...

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10 years ago, reporter/healthwriter @zimmerman082 lost her husband -- #MIT professor, father, free spirit to #suicide. At 1st, she hid the story. Now, she brings it 2 light in #memoir of love/loss/living again. She talks 2 @hereandnowrobin @hereandnow wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/06/…

'Us, After' memoir tackles suicide, grief and learning to love life again

When Rachel Zimmerman's husband Seth died by suicide in 2014, she had more questions than answers.

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#Ethiopian @DebaBuzunesh waited 8 yrs 4 the @BAA to give her $75k she won when initial 2014 #BostonMarathon winner DQ'd for doping. In May a Philly businessman stepped in & wrote the check. @hereandnow @tongscott talks to #DougGuyer about why he did it. wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/06/…

Philadelphia businessman pays $75k to Boston Marathon winner who didn't get her prize

Rita Jeptoo was originally crowned the winner of the 2013 Boston Marathon. When she was disqualified for doping, Buzunesh “Buza” Deba became the official winner. But she never got her prize money.

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Thanks @annkpowers talking to @hereandnow about #Traveling, a deep-diving, insightful new #biography of #JoniMitchel. So much info on pple, cultural moments & drive that launched J's 60 year career. Quirky, talent, inspired, inspiring. @hereandnowrobin wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/06/…

Joni Mitchell biography 'Traveling' tracks a journey that changed popular music

The Canadian singer — an only child born on the prairies — reinvented herself repeatedly, famously singing “I’m on a lonely road, and I am traveling, traveling, traveling, looking for something, what...

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Not every day u have historical icon like #AlexanderButterfield, 98, on your show. He talks 2 @hereandnowrobin on testifying against #Nixon in #watergate hearings & parallels 2 today, incl how #CassidyHutchinson saw him as #rolemodel for Jan 6 testimony. wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/05/…

What's it like to testify against a president? Alexander Butterfield recalls Watergate testimony

Butterfield, former President Richard Nixon’s deputy assistant, 1973 testimony, blew the lid off the Watergate hearings by revealing Nixon’s clandestine taping of Whitehouse phone conversations.

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.@ethanjsacks & #NaomiSacks join @hereandnow 2 talk about their #graphicnovel #AHauntedGirl, a horror #comic weaving protagonist's triumph over #mentalhealth challenges w/ #supernatural #ghost tale. @hereandnowrobin. Take a listen! wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/05/… #suicidehotline: 988

'A Haunted Girl' graphic novel explores mental illness through horror

On the surface, the new graphic novel “A Haunted Girl” is the story of a teenage girl who has to fight giant supernatural monsters to save the world. But it’s also a poignant depiction of mental...

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Congrats @des_linden on crushing the @bostonmarathon course yesterday. And @karagoucher on that @BAA 5K - goal ✔️. And of course THANK YOU for joining us @hereandnow to talk about all-things-running. Role models for runners everywhere. #running #marathon wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/04/…

Runners Kara Goucher and Des Linden talk women athletes, doping, Boston and their new podcast

Their podcast is a deep dive into everything from shoes to doping to the nitty gritty of elite training programs.

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Boston’s best #running wknd started w/ visit to @hereandnow by @karagoucher & @Des_Linden (stay tuned for convo on #MarathonMonday!), then their moving @WBURCitySpace event, BAA 5K Sat, & Monday #DesLinden runs @bostonmarathon! How’d your 5K go Kara? My ribs held out! I finished!
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