This Week on MNN: Summertime, and the living’s easy…

Gorgeous summer days like this one make us want to streamline and simplify to fully enjoy the sunny glory days of the season. With efficiency as our guide, our shows this week do double-duty to help you optimize these precious days of warm-weather perfection. An actor/physical therapist shares his tales on “GingerNewYork,” while “Something to Offer” presents an educator turned marketer turned actress/producer. “The Facts” combine music and story in a compelling tale, and “The Woman’s Connection” features tips for staying healthy during this high season of travel.  Plus “The B.J. Rubin Show” presents a mélange of music for your summer soundtrack. 

“The Woman’s Connection”

Monday, July 11, 11:00 pm

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“The Woman's Connection®” is about events shaping women's lives and how to help women gain authentic power on a personal or professional basis.  This week, watch as host Barrie-Louise Switzen talks with travel consultant Cassandra Santoro about tips to stay healthy while traveling this summer.

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“The Woman’s Connection” on the Web

“The Woman’s Connection” on YouTube

“The BJ Rubin Show: In The Realms Of The Irreal”

Tuesday, July 12, 11:00 pm

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"The BJ Rubin Show" airs weekly and features trippy, rapid-fire musical performances interwoven with interviews, cartoons, animations, sketches, and short films. Catch the next chapter in the show’s eight-chapter summer episodes, which this week features Glockabelle, Colleen Green, Jerry Paper, Frankie Cosmos, Shannon Hayden, Deradoorian, Dieter Moebius, Alice Cohen, Laetitia Sadier, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, Sur Back, Trummors, Zazie, Mossenek, Jeffrey Lewis, and Cotton Candy.

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“The BJ Rubin Show” on Facebook

“The BJ Rubin Show” on Twitter

“The BJ Rubin Show” on YouTube

“The Facts:  Building a Character”

Tuesday, July 12, 11:30 pm

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Each episode of “The Facts” is either a music-story (using composed and improvised music and story), or a rehearsal for a music-story, or a discussion between scholars and experts.  This July, the series of music-stories and discussions explores people reacting to their circumstances. Watch this week’s episode, a music-story about developing a realistic picture for an art work. Featuring Lenore Von Stein, Andrew Bolotowsky, Beth Griffin, and Bern Nix.

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“The Facts” on the Web
“The Facts” on YouTube
“The Facts” on LinkedIn

“The Facts” on Twitter

“GingerNewYork”

Friday, July 15, 2:00 pm
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New Yorker Adrian Miranda grew up in Washington Heights and graduated Ithaca College with a degree in physical therapy. Falling into the arts by accident in college, he now performs with the Heights Players in Brooklyn, and stars in the one man show “A Chronic Line,” based on his actual work as a physical therapist.

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“GingerNewYork” on Facebook

“GingerNewYork” on YouTube
“GingerNewYork” on Twitter

“Something to Offer”

Saturday, July 16, 7:30 pm

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Lori Hamilton is an actress, producer, educator, marketing strategist, and entrepreneur at the heart of Lori Hamilton Enterprises, where she serves as CEO and president. The multi-talented renaissance woman joins host AnneMarie Offer in discussion this week.

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“Something to Offer” on the Web