During this hour of All Sides, we're getting a behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of the series.

We talk with a longtime employee and unofficial historian of a Toledo hot dog restaurant about how the business managed to become a legendary establishment.

On this hour of All Sides, we’ll discover what it was like to hitchhike across America in the summer of 1974 by talking to the author of a new memoir, which chronicles his journey.

Republicans and Democrats are tapping traditional and non-traditional means to get voters registered and to the polls on Nov. 5.

Gerrymandering is bad, right? Drawing congressional or statehouse districts to benefit one party at the expense of the other is wrong. Right? As we untangle redistricting this season, we wanted to unravel the belief that gerrymandering is bad. Guests include: Matt Huffman, Ohio Senate President (R-Lima); Maureen O’Connor, former chief justice of th…

Republicans want to keep watch over Ohio’s polling places this November. The GOP says it’s to protect our votes. Democrats think it could intimidate votes.And Ohio lawmakers begin the process of updating the law that lets college athletes negotiate endorsement deals.We’re talking about it today on the All Sides reporter roundtable.…

On Saturday, Archie Griffin will become only the third Ohio State coach or player to dot the I in Script Ohio – an honor reserved for a select few. The moment will come during the Ohio State marching band’s performance at the Buckeyes' first football game of the season. We’re talking with the head drum major and senior sousaphone player about the s…

It’s been nine months since Ted Carter took over as president of Ohio State University.During his tenure, OSU has hired a new athletic director, had a record number of students apply, seen protestors arrested and he’s begun developing a long-term strategic plan for the university.We’re talking about the academic year that just started and football.…

The Cleveland Browns want to build a new stadium in Brook Park, and they’re asking for public money to do it – $600 million and a $600 million bond.

The Democratic National Convention, for the first time, issued press credentials to influencers, along with traditional journalists, as did the Republican National Convention.

In the 1990s, Mary Kay Letourneau’s sexual assault of a student was framed as a kid who got lucky with his teacher.

Ohioans are going to the polls this November to vote on redistricting, again. It’s the fifth time in 20 years that we’ve been asked whether we want to change how we draw the boundaries for our statehouse and congressional districts.

The 2026 gubernatorial race got a little more interesting when Dr. Amy Acton last week floated a possible run. We'll discuss the next governor's race, the latest on the presidential campaign following the Democratic National Convention and more.

On this hour of All Sides, we're holding conversations with three unqiue people who have significant ties to the Buckeye state.

Ohio will soon have its first hotline to direct tips on suspected sex and labor trafficking.

The podcast looks at why no original tribes remain and how Native American nations are telling their history their own way and reasserting their presence in Ohio.

Anna Marie Tendler's new memoir Men Have Called Her Crazy details her battle with mental illness and the formative romantic and family relationships that shaped her.

Buckeye voters are being asked this November whether we want to change our process for drawing electoral boundaries. Mapmaking is a complicated process, and it could use a little untangling. Over the next five episodes, we'll untangle the history of redistricting, how to draw fair maps, how other states do redistricting, and let both sides of Issue…

Two reporters from the Washington Post recently looked at thousands of English-language conversations to learn more.

We’re talking about the treatment of women in politics during this hour of All Sides.

In her album Undersong, Simone Dinnerstein explores what it means to go to the same place again and again and to return home. The recording takes its name from the archaic word for a piece of music with a refrain, a passage of music that periodically repeats amid sections of contrasting music. It features musical works with refrains by Schumann, Co…

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the animated film Up, directed by Pete Docter, produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Set initially in Ohio, Up unfolds in dazzling visuals the outlandish adventures of an elderly widower and a young boy.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

September 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland, which opened the floodgates to World War II. On this occasion, this episode of SoundReels looks at a film set in the later years of the war.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

September 1, 2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the combined Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, which marked the start of World War II.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

Writer, director and producer Wes Anderson’s 2018 stop motion animation film Isle of Dogs was first screened at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

Some operas inspire reverence beyond who gets kissed and who gets killed. Francis Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites is chief among them.Oleh Christopher Purdy

In 1972, I saw a production of Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment ("The Daughter of the Regiment"), starring Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti. And in 1972, there were no two opera singers more famous, more skilled or greater.Oleh Christopher Purdy

Fifty years ago, a teacher gave me two tickets to see Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli in Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur.Oleh Christopher Purdy

Bring on the dancing. The Metropolitan Opera has a hot new production of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) complete with bacchanal.Oleh Christopher Purdy

The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD presentations, beamed into cinemas worldwide, begins a new season Saturday, Oct. 6. Anna Netrebko stars in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.Oleh Christopher Purdy

Even if you’ve never seen the 1957 hit musical West Side Story, I'll bet you can hum the tune from "Tonight," "Maria," "America" or any number of the show's signature songs and dance pieces on command.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

Lawrence of Arabia is, hands down, one of the classics.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

A violin with a past is fated to keep dooming the present.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

John Sturges' 1960 Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic film Seven Samurai features an intense musical score by one of the great composers of film music, Elmer Bernstein.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

Ah, the joys of summer — sunshine, long days, grilling on the patio — and movies.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the mother and mother-in-law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the music lover. And, thanks to the Notorious R.B.G. blog, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the unexpected pop-culture icon.Oleh Jennifer Hambrick

The Metropolitan Opera presents a new production of Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, screened live in HD at movie theaters worldwide at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 28.Oleh Christopher Purdy

The Metropolitan Opera presents Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide, broadcast live from New York in HD to movie theaters worldwide at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 10.Oleh Christopher Purdy

The Columbus Symphony and Opera Columbus present Giuseppe Verdi's Aida at the Ohio Theatre, at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4. Rossen Milanov conducts.Oleh Christopher Purdy

Opera Abbreviated is a Classical 101 podcast that previews The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series of performances beamed into cinemas worldwide.Oleh Christopher Purdy