The Artists Index is an AHA! partner and this is the March AHA! episode in our continuing series of livestream podcasts from Play Arcade co-hosted by our livestream partner and friend Adam Katz. This month’s theme was a repeat of February’s: I AM NB – Storytyelling Series.

Thursday, March 13th (from 6 to 7:30 pm.) invited guests joining podcast host Ron Fortier were, once again, Max Wikermayer, The Artists Index’s Man On The Street. Also joining us was our friend, America’s Master Mentalist Jon Stetson, whose career was the inspiration for the CBS hit television series “The Mentalist”. We swapped stories of life experiences! It all happened at in the Living Room at Play Arcade “an old-school 80’s style arcade offering a full-service bar, craft-made drinks, and food…” and over 40 vintage arcade games and a rooftop deck overlooking the working waterfront in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park.

Our guests offered their views, opinions, and great conversational skills on a variety of subjects. Jon also mentioned his new, soon to be released book, the Art of Knowing.

AHA! (Arts, History, Architecture) has presented New Bedford and the South Coast with free arts and culture nights. It celebrated its 25th anniversary this September! AHA! Nights are held every second Thursday of the month to recall and honor the nostalgic late shopping night offered in New Bedford from the 1940s through the 1960s. This revival has brought a new and lasting vibrancy to downtown.

If you would like to be a guest on The Artists Index or have a suggestion, please let us know! The Artists Index records our podcasts at our Spectrum Marketing Group studio. We also use Zoom to accommodate our guests’ schedules or for those who no longer live on the South Coast of Massachusetts. 

The Artists Index provides our listeners and readers with up close and personal conversations with artists, supporters of the arts, and the cultural impresarios of the South Coast’s remarkable creative community.

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* Leia Onofrey featured photo credit

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