February 7, 2025 - Week in Review: Emilia Pérez controversy, a state poet laureate for Mass, and Uncle O'Grimacey
About The Episode
Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.
First up, Emilia Pérez. Two weeks ago the movie seemed destined for Oscars gold with 13 nominations. Now leading actress Karla Sofía Gascón’s Academy Award campaign is in tatters amid a string of controversies that has Netflix distancing itself from her.
Plus some of the greatest poets have called Massachusetts home– from Robert Frost to Robert Pinsky, Emily Dickenson to Tracy K. Smith, but the state didn't have a home for them. That all changed on Monday when Governor Healey signed an executive order, creating a poet laureate of Massachusetts.
And McDonald's Shamrock Shake is back and so is its long lost mascot–who looks like he’s gathered some moss–the verdant Uncle O'Grimacey.
Finally, it’s an auction with strings attached. A Stradivarius violin could fetch a record 18 million dollars.
