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News at 6 on WNUR News – January 31, 2022 Dolphin Show, Jamie Lynn Spears’s new book, Fleurotica, banana bread WNUR News broadcasts live at 6 pm CST on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays on WNUR 89.3 FM
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Speaker 1 00:00:13 Live from WMUR news. I'm Alison route. You're listening to the six o'clock news on w and you are 89.3 FM HD one Evanston Chicago. It's Monday, January 1st, 2022 tonight on w and you are news a look at this year's dolphin show. Finally, in person, Jamie Lynn Spears, his new book, and an update on our Floradix Radhika story from last quarter, as well as a rerun of our banana bread story, those stories, and more coming up now on WMUR news at six. Thanks for tuning in on this Monday evening dolphin show put on their first in-person performance since 2019 last weekend, reporter Trevor Duggins talked to the cast and crew of merrily. We roll along to learn more,
Speaker 2 00:01:09 Please silence your cell phones. And remember that masks are required during the duration of the performance. Thank you again for your support of the 79th annual dolphin show. We hope you enjoy our production of merrily. We roll along
Speaker 3 00:01:28 Northwestern dolphin show is an annual student run production with a rich history. Since 1939, Northwestern has put together productions of classic musicals every year, all performed, directed, and managed by students. Although for two consecutive years, when the COVID-19 pandemic stopped all student theater dolphin, show it to continue virtually in 2019 and 2020. This year, students prepared merrily. We roll along a Stephen Sondheim musical from 1981 and the Khan auditorium for the dolphin Joe's first in-person audience. Since 2019,
Speaker 4 00:02:02 We read through tons and tons of shows this year, and we wanted to choose a show. You know, that was challenging for all of the students involved. It's a Sondheim musical as very challenging music. The story about merrily we roll along is about these relationships that we make when we're young and the decisions we make moving forward, and you know, how we can either maintain or let those relationships fall apart.
Speaker 3 00:02:19 That was owned Kylie business producer of this year's production. Who's been working on the dolphin show for the past four years as business producer, he helped manage marketing sales and development for the show and was involved in making the final decision for what was going to be performed.
Speaker 4 00:02:36 We felt that the story was super universal to Northwestern students. And just trying to remind us that the relationships we're making here can continue into the future and the decisions we make in the future will affect those relationships and those friendships
Speaker 3 00:03:07 But with the pandemic looming, preparing for the show, turned out to be a major struggle for the cast and crew, to hear more about how COVID affected the show's timeline. I spoke to August Blanco, Rosenstein and Ruby Gibson, two of the main cast members who performed in this weekend's musical
Speaker 5 00:03:23 Winter break. We were expecting to come back on January 3rd in-person and get to put all of our scenes up on their feet. And, uh, that obviously did not happen when we got back because everything was remote for two weeks.
Speaker 6 00:03:38 It has been like crunch time for us over the past two weeks because of Wildcat wellness. We weren't, you know, going home over winter break, expecting that we would be losing two weeks of in-person rehearsal. Um, so we had been doing zoom rehearsals for those two weeks, which it was still really awesome to see everyone, but, you know, zoom rehearsals for like a live theater production are not always super productive. And so a lot of stuff changed when we got into our space.
Speaker 5 00:04:07 You know, it's been unconventional. I think, I think that goes across the board, probably for all theater experiences at Northwestern, at other schools professionally for the last two years, it's been a theater is just a weird thing to do in a social environment where you can't be near each other,
Speaker 3 00:04:24 Despite major challenges. The dolphin show drove hundreds of Northwestern and Evanston community members to con auditorium this weekend for multiple performances of the Sondheim musical. Many of the cast and crew members attribute the production success to the very people who made it possible in the first place.
Speaker 6 00:04:43 I love student leader. I participate in it probably too much, both on the administrative side. So I'm on one of the theater boards, but then also like I'm doing for the dolphin show I've formed. And I think that student theater is one of the most magical things that happens at Northwestern. It's, it's just a way for every one of us to learn what goes into a production. Like there's so many roles on the dolphin show and in student theater in general, that I didn't know existed until I got here. Like I never really knew what a producer did. And we have two amazing producers for this show, simmering and Owen. I honestly can't even like comprehend a quarter of the work that they're doing for the show. But knowing that the people that I'm working with are my peers just kind of makes me feel like safe and good about the room that I'm working in.
Speaker 4 00:05:32 One of the reasons I love the dolphin, show him one of the reasons I think the dolphin show is so special is that we bring together over 160 students. So there's so many students involved with this organization and there's so many opportunities. You know, people can work on finance. People can work on marketing. People can work on sales, but then they can also work on painting and carpentry. Um, and so I think, you know, the fact that it's student powered and student made is very unique and the scale of that is super unique and that it just offers really exciting opportunities for,
Speaker 5 00:05:59 And everyone involved there's comradery, there's understanding for each other's experiences. I think the creative team and the production team who have just been absolute like superheroes with all of the changes that they've made and not to mention all the changes that they've had to prepare for that have never had to have been made the idea of maybe, well, what if something happens and then we have to move this around or that around. And then how do we adjust this? I mean, they've been doing so much work behind the scenes. I think that them being students makes them not take anything for granted, understand that it all falls on them and gives them the opportunity to rise up to the challenge, which they've totally done for w
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Speaker 1 00:08:01 Welcome back to w and your news on to arts and entertainment. We here at WMUR news are ardent supporters of the hashtag free Brittany movement. It is our honor, and our duty to report on any updates, including sister Jamie Lynn Spears, his new memoir here's reporter Emily with the T
Speaker 9 00:08:21 Jamie Lynn Spears, new book, things I should have said, maybe should have stayed on. Said, if you haven't been keeping up with the hashtag free Brittany movement, let's catch you up to speed. Britney spirits has been a 13 year conservatorship where her father, Jamie Spears had control over her state and health and her attorney and your wallet managed your finances, though. This was meant to help Brittany to report mental health. At the time she ended up being taken advantage of Brittany wrote a letter, and the third person depicting her situation. The children were taken away and she did spin out of control, which any mother would in those circumstances though, on November 12th, 2021, after years of fighting judge, Brenda penny dissolved the conservatorship, granting Brittany with control over her life. Many would speculate that this would be the end of the story, a happy ending, but the story continues. Jamie Linsky is, comes out with a memoir things I should have said on January 18th and to garner press. She sat with Juju Chang on ABC's Nightline there. They discussed how in her memoir, Jamie Lynn described Brittany as being erratic, paranoid, and spiraling. She then claimed while holding her toddler, Ivy, Brittany came at her screaming and getting in her face
Speaker 10 00:09:42 First at me. And so I just walked out of the room cause I was like, ah, we're just all family under one roof. Like I'm not trying to argue. And when I tried to remove myself from the situation, that's when I guess she just got really angry
Speaker 9 00:09:57 Enter interviews, kept mentioning Brittany causing her to go off on Instagram because she was just disappointed by how her sister kept portraying her.
Speaker 11 00:10:08 And why do I say that you self-assess a little brat saying how weird and dumb it was that I bought a house for mama. She was so proud. And you told that interview girl, that it was just weird. Like, I guess I will just walk in these halls. Why did you say that? And why watching your at length interview really two hours or more, and the topic about the knife, which is ironically, the only lie you've ever told in your whole life. Why is that conversation? 20 minutes and the most degrading to me. Oh, but you don't want to keep talking about it because you don't want to hurt nobody's feelings. Then you let it linger forever saying you felt unsafe with me and weird
Speaker 9 00:10:48 This interview. Wasn't the only thing that garnered controversy. The book itself was accused of spreading false information. Jamie Lynn accused Brittany of threatening her with a knife and the Lexan Nicholas, her former CoStar on Zoe wanted one to have been a bully, both Brittany and Alexa has nine of these accusations.
Speaker 11 00:11:07 Congrats bay used to, to a whole new level of low. I've never been around you with a knife or would I ever even think to do so? So the only knife I ever saw you went at home was cutting a biggest piece of the squash I ever seen in my life. And it was way too big for me to cut. So please, please stop with these crazy lies for the Hollywood books now and only now, do I know only a scone person would make up such a things about someone I'm actually very confused about you making that up because it's honestly not like you at all around the kids. Jamie Lynn, seriously, come on. Congrats on introducing your older sister. The concept of getting low, lower, and low is because you win at that one day.
Speaker 12 00:11:45 That's what she was not bullied. Like I was, I was bullied, relentlessly
Speaker 11 00:11:54 Buy
Speaker 9 00:11:54 Her many speculate here, accusations where to garner more attention for the memoir. Even Brittany was skeptical.
Speaker 11 00:12:01 The two things that did bother me that my sister said was how my behavior was out of control. She was never around me most 15 years ago at that time. So why are they even talking about that? Unless she wants to sell a book at my expense, really
Speaker 9 00:12:16 These were, or weren't her intentions. We may never know, but the books still received a spot on the national best sellers list. Even through this tense situation,
Speaker 1 00:12:33 Looking over to oddities back in November, Chicago's Garfield park conservatory held their annual fundraiser fashion show. reporter Helen Bradshaw sat down with some of the designers to get a behind the scenes. Look
Speaker 15 00:12:50 In the fall Garfield park conservatory put on an unforgettable fashion show, Florida 2021, the conservatories annual fundraiser featured outfits made out of plants in a followup to WMUR is Floradix a story from November. I spoke with one of the designers, Stephanie season ton of pinky swear studio for her Floradix was more than just an opportunity to show off amazing florals. It was a celebration of life.
Speaker 14 00:13:18 Um, but for the Radhika, what's really nice is that it's free rein full creativity. You get to do whatever you want, uh, you know, very little requirements other than you need to be in the workshop by three that day. Um, and of course floral. So for this event specifically, it was dedicated to my friend's mother who passed away in 2020, um, not, not to COVID, but just in that unfortunate year where they couldn't set up a Memorial for them. Um, and so they had to wait almost an entire year to like gather and pee together. And you know, more than the loss of their mother, their friend, their sister, their daughter, their, you know, aunt grandmother, my friend had hired me to do her event to build an old friend of, for her in Detroit. After I did this event for Alma, um, I was really, really moved and touched. And, um, I asked if I could continue almost memory, um, by building her, uh, live action garment, uh, alter a front door for the runway and she was ecstatic. And she said, yes, of course. So I wouldn't have done it if she wouldn't have given me the okay. Obviously, cause this is something that I really wanted her to experience too, to be able to see this type of, uh, remembering someone in a different light, in a different way. That's high energy as well, just in a different capacity, but
Speaker 15 00:14:51 Even with an idea of fleshed out, making the garment was a whole other story.
Speaker 14 00:14:57 And I thought it would be pretty easy to be honest with you. Cause like, so I ordered 200 and for the event in Detroit, I ordered 500. So that's what I based it on. And I still didn't have enough. I had to, um, I had to trim down my design, but it wasn't very much, it was like maybe one, one square foot. Like it wasn't a lot, but I had to edit, obviously construction is a huge part of the design process. The person, uh, the art piece is going to be moving constantly. And how is that going to work with life floral, um, other pieces that are going to be attached to the garment? Um, how is it going to be, um, attached to the model? That's not going to fall off mid runway. What is it going to look like in those runway lights? What is it going to look like in the dim lights in the conservatory,
Speaker 15 00:16:00 But in the end, she's in Tom's model, strata down the runway and a bright miracle Cape. According to season Tom, all the work was worth it to create a living Memorial of almost life.
Speaker 14 00:16:11 It wasn't a lot of work. It wasn't a lot. It was fun though, like the process itself, like, and, and, and engineering a piece like this and like from beginning and to the final end to the very end and you finally see it and you're like, okay, it worked like I did it. It's not falling apart. He's not hurt. Um, it looks really great. It's, it's bright and lively and full of energy. And I was, I made it work
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Speaker 1 00:18:32 Welcome back to w and your news at six it's, 6:21 PM. And now a story so nice. We're playing it twice. Banana bread had its moment in quarantine kitchens, but why do overripe bananas continue to make our mouths water? Here's Sarah Kadara with an ode to the lushest loaf.
Speaker 20 00:19:00 British Vogue declared 2020, the banana bread Renaissance of the Corona virus pandemic as our bananas went spotty after days in quarantine. So did our sanity and out of the madness came loaves and loaves of dense deliciousness. Ari Sloss is a third year physics and math major. Have you ever made banana
Speaker 4 00:19:24 A million times? Yeah, really? I didn't realize it was a trend during the pandemic, but I just did it myself because I like banana bread always had bananas lying around at the end of the week. I ended up making like a loaf a week for a good six months. Would you say
Speaker 20 00:19:41 That you perfected how you like your banana bread?
Speaker 4 00:19:45 I don't know about perfected because it could probably always be made better, but there's a recipe in the better homes and gardens cookbook that my mom always used that I used to. And I've, I've changed it to be better. In my opinion,
Speaker 20 00:20:00 I too did my fair share of baking in 2020 and in 2021 and twice so far in 2022, with every new loaf, the comfort food comes closer to my heart. So imagine the bitterness offense resentment. I felt toward an October, 2021 headline from Nexstar media wire banana bread is so last year. Here's what we're starting to bake instead. Well, next star keep your peach cobbler, apple crumble and monkey bread. Out of my kitchen, the magic of turning a brown banana into a top tier treat is why it's endured generations. According to the king Arthur baking company, banana bread became popular in the early years of the great depression. Precious bananas were ripe for the baking. Once they went brown and chemical webinars like baking powder were newly mass produced the recent rise of the luscious loaf. Surely wouldn't have been possible without the internet. A search for banana bread on all recipes.com produced 6,816 results, including maple banana bread, paleo banana bread, mango banana bread, bang in banana bread, boozy banana bread, mommy's banana bread, mother's banana bread, grandma's banana bread best ever banana bread, low fat banana bread, lower fat banana bread, almost no fat banana bread.
Speaker 20 00:21:38 And perhaps the Internet's favorite with five stars and 10,033 reviews. Janet's rich banana bread. Thanks, Janet. The adoptability of the dish is undoubtedly a favorite feature. Nixey Straza editorial director for Northwestern spoon university magazine told me how she makes banana bread work for her.
Speaker 6 00:22:03 I've been vegan for about six years. I've been vegetarian since I was born. I actually happen to love bending their bread. So pretty common, especially for something that's fruit based like a banana bread. Obviously the main flavor profile is fruit for an Agra Placer. I would use applesauce, um, which is super cheap and it really great substitute. So I use that. I use coconut oil or earth balance for butter replacements. The banana is actually a really great banana is also used as an egg and a lot of vegan baked goods. So it's actually like worked out perfectly for, it's actually a really easy thing he gets,
Speaker 20 00:22:38 But wait,
Speaker 6 00:22:40 I think it's more of a cake. I mean, it has the consistency more of like a lemon pound cake and it does a sourdough
Speaker 20 00:22:50 Is banana bread bread.
Speaker 4 00:22:52 Yes. So I'm not like totally set on the culinary specifics, but I think it's something that has like less sugar in it than a cake. And it's not quite as rich as a cake. And it's something that you can like make a little more savory by adding spices to it, which is what I like to do
Speaker 20 00:23:13 For what it's worth. Here's. My favorite banana might not be a bread recipe, Lauren, Alan's our favorite banana bread on tastes better from scratch.com. I add a cup and a half of chocolate chips when I have them, but the crispy crust and immaculate insides stand alone delectably on this particular Wednesday night, the three overripe bananas in my kitchen lived to see another day, but only because I was producing a radio story in their honor for WMUR news. I'm Sarah Kadara
Speaker 1 00:23:54 In the headlines today. Northwestern saw an overall decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases, week four from the week prior. However, the positivity rates slightly increased as fewer people took tests. Students can get asymptomatic testing at the Jacobs center from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on weekdays with those displaying symptoms using the Northwest side testing entrance between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM on weekdays, a federal judge has rejected a plea agreement that would have averted, a hate crime trial for the man convicted of a murder of murdering a mod. Aubrey, our breeze parents had asked the judge to reject the proposed deal for Travis McMichael. The case will proceed to summon jurors next week, this year, super bowl contenders have been decided the NFL championship game on February 13th. We'll see the Cincinnati Bengals play against the Los Angeles Rams in Sophie stadium in LA in marks the second time in a row.
Speaker 1 00:24:55 And in history that a team plays the Superbowl on their home field. The bangles defeated the chiefs yesterday in overtime 27 to 24. After that the Rams beat the 49ers 2217, the super bowl will kick off on the 13th at five 30 central on NBC singer and entrepreneur Rihanna is pregnant as confirmed by photos that surfaced online this weekend. She and her partner rapper ASAP Rocky have been together for an unspecified amount of time, but officially announced their relationship in 2020, when Aston at 2021 interview about fatherhood. Rocky stated that quote, I would have a very fly child, very unquote. Hopefully he gets his wish. The white house says president Biden will meet with Senate judiciary leaders on Thursday to discuss the upcoming Supreme court vacancy, as well as Biden's promise to nominate a black woman to the high court judiciary chairman, Dick Durbin and ranking minority member.
Speaker 1 00:25:54 Chuck Grassley will meet with Biden to discuss potential nominees, to replace justice. Stephen Brier, who announced his retirement last week and the New York times has purchased Wordle. The sale announced this afternoon reflects the publication's emphasis on games to increase digital subscriptions to 10 million. By 2025, Wordle was purchased from creator, Josh Wardle for a price quote in the low seven figures. Unquote the New York times said the game will initially remain free to new and existing players taking a look at the weather right now. It's a balmy 33 degrees with partly sunny skies. Tonight. You can expect clouds with a low around 29 degrees and breezes up to 30 miles per hour. A small craft advisory is in effect from 6:00 PM central until 12:00 PM central time tomorrow STO so stay safe out there Tuesday and Wednesday, you can expect precipitation with a 40% chance of rain Tuesday afternoon and an 80% chance of snow on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 00:26:56 Temperatures will range throughout the twenties, snow chances decrease through Thursday night and heading into the weekend. Look for sunny and partly sunny skies with highs in the twenties and lows reaching into the tens and even single digits. That's all for w your news at 6:00 PM for more news updates and reports. Follow us on Twitter at w N U R news and Instagram at w N U R news 8 9 3. You can listen to these and other stories of the day on our Spotify, Google podcasts, and SoundCloud. You can also find us on our new website, w N U r.news. Our producer today is Zach McCrary. Our reporters are Trevor Duggins, Emily T Teo tip Tino Helen Bradshaw and Sarah Kadara I'm Alison route from all of us here at WMUR news. Thank you for listening. Catch our next show. This Wednesday, February 2nd, at 6:00 PM. Now back to scheduled programming.
