{"id":2069,"date":"2016-02-19T03:24:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2024-02-13T20:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T20:23:41","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-ray-sawhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Ray Sawhill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ray Sawhill<\/a> worked as an arts and culture reporter for Newsweek. He has also written for Salon.com<\/a> and blogs at Uncouth Reflections<\/a> as Paleo Retiree<\/a>. He splits his time between New York and Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

Topics include:<\/p>\n

How Robert and Ray both have personal connections to Santa Barbara and how the city is almost too idyllic
\nCrime Fiction Novelist Ross Macdonald<\/a> who’s work captures Santa Barbara
\nSanta Barbara as a place with strict zoning laws that was modeled after Andalusia <\/a> in Spain
\nThe contrast between life in Santa Barbara and New York City
\nHow New York City has changed in Ray’s time there in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s
\nHow Cuisine is the one area that has seen increased innovation in New York
\nRay’s cameo in the film Exposed<\/a> set in New York in 1983 staring Nastassja Kinski
\nHow films such as Exposed and Taxi Driver<\/a> are documentaries for New York in that era
\nThe new peculiarly shaped skyscrapers going up in New York today
\n“See through buildings” where wealthy Foreigners are buying up real estate in New York and leaving them empty<\/a>
\nHow Ray is drawn to architecture because it is art you can experience and changes the world in a way that regular art doesn’t
\nHow most of the general public has little input and interest in architecture
\nHow places without zoning laws tend to lack any aesthetic value
\nHow the main rule in urbanism is not to do anything that harms the city
\nArt Deco<\/a> and how it succeeds in bringing tradition and modernity into one
\nArchitectual Revivalism<\/a> which seeks to recreate older forms of architecture
\nRobert Stark\u2019s Artwork<\/a>
\nRay’s work at Newsweek as a reporters covering art, culture, literature, film, and theatre
\nHow Ray’s most significant interviews were with Writers Philip, Roth, and John Updike, filmmakers Francis Coppola, and Robert Altman and Architect Christopher Alexander<\/a>
\nHow conservatives tend to avoid culture and leave that domain to the left
\nEnglish Philosopher Roger Scruton<\/a> as a model for a cultured conservative
\nFront Porch Anarchist Bill Kauffman<\/a>
\nNew Urbanism<\/a>
\nThe The Retro Cocktail<\/a> and Locavore<\/a> movements
\nJames Howard Kunstler<\/a>
\nRay’s involvement with Environmentalism and Bioregional<\/a> Anarchism
\nHow the environmental movement abandoned the overpopulation issue due to political correctness and mass immigration
\nThe Alternative Right
\nHow the real political divide is between globalism and decentralization
\nCultural trends and how Ray views himself as a cultural radar
\nThe trend towards a focus on muscles for young men and men are more self-conscious about their bodies
\nThe value of pleasure and leisure
\nErotica and the debate about what’s art and what’s pornography
\nControversial nude photographer Jock Sturges<\/a>, who Ray interviewed
\nHow society is a taking contradictory paths towards lewdness and prudishness
\nStudents Still Sweat, They Just Don\u2019t Shower<\/a>
\nHow having taste and style has become equated with homosexuality
\nYoung women moving to New York City because of Sex and the City
\n“Sex Scenes”<\/a> which is a raunchy, satirical audio entertainment that Ray created with his wife playwright Polly Frost<\/a>. Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ray-Sawhill-Interview.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click Here<\/a> to download!<\/p>\n

This show is brought to you by Robert Stark\u2019s Artwork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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