The Point

Wendy Taucher’s Dance Opera Theatre is performing a comic adaptation of Don Pasquale, on Martha's Vineyard. It's part of a new Salon Opera Series, where adaptations of comic classics honor the music as written while providing a context for a contemporary audience. We sit in on a rehearsal and talk with some of the performers.

On The Point, we hear about some of the films coming to this year’s Woods Hole Film Festival. And Hannah Garfield and Casey Robidoux share their thoughts about the life of Film Festival interns. 

On The Point, host Mindy Todd sits down with Dr. Michael Abbruzzese, psychologist, and Dr. Marc Whaley, psychiatrist, to talk about the mysterious world of memory.

On The Point, horticulturist Roberta Clark joins our host Mindy Todd in the studio to talk about garden delights at summers' peak, and also the challenges such as pests, weeds, and correct watering practices.

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week.  His guests include Sean Driscoll of the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard Times; Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Ann Wood of the Provincetown Banner; and George Brennan of the Martha's Vineyard Times.

George Bernard Shaw was a well-known playwright at the turn of the 20th century, but he was also a journalist whose advocacy on behalf of the press helped shape modern journalism. On The Point, Kathryn Eident talks with Shaw scholar and Massachusetts Maritime Academy professor Nelson Ritschel about his new book, "Bernard Shaw, W.T. Stead, and the New Journalism." 

Summer on the Cape and Island is a busy time for our bird population. Mark Faherty, ornithologist and science coordinator at Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, sits down in The Point studio with our host Mindy Todd to catch up on the latest Bird News.

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week.  His guests include Chris Lindahl of the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Andy Tomolonis with South Coast Today; Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Ann Wood of the Provincetown Banner; and George Brennan of the Martha's Vineyard Times.

Birds are astonishingly smart creatures. Researchers are finding some birds rival primates, and even humans, in their remarkable forms of intelligence. On The Point, we talk with Jennifer Ackerman, who traveled the world to talk with bird researchers. Her book The Genius of Birds not only tells the story of how birds demonstrate their smarts, it delves into the latest findings about the brains of birds and what it means to be intelligent.
 

This time of year several species of sea turtles can be found in the waters off the Cape and Islands, all of whom are endangered. On The Point, we discuss research using TurtleCams to learn more about sea turtle behavior and movements, and a new website to help boaters avoid sea turtles in our waters. To report a  seat turtle sighting, or to find out where sea turtles have been seen, link to seaturtlesightings.org