The Dinner Party Download featuring Paul Giamatti
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This week on the Dinner Party Download...
Icebreaker:
Singer-songwriter Henry Wolfe (look for his new album "Linda Vista" soon) gets his hooks into a joke.
Small Talk: Reyhan Harmanci
Reyhan Harmanci -- culture editor of San Francisco's The Bay Citizen -- tells us about artist Jeff Koons' overinflated sense of intellectual property rights.
A History Lesson with Booze: The Dem Donkey and "The Jackass Neck"
Learn about how a staunch Republican came to symbolize the Democrats... Then throttle a "Jackass Neck" - a custom cocktail courtesy of Alex Bookless, bar manager of The Passenger in Washington D.C.
Guest of Honor: Paul Giamatti
The actor who singlehandedly decimated Merlot sales in the United States is up for a Golden Globe award this weekend for his starring role in the movie "Barney's Version." Paul speaks to Rico about Canadian fan boys, being a n-oenophile, and his acting stature.
To hear a longer version of that interview with Paul Giamatti -- plus a primer on why anyone would want to garnish a cocktail with whale cholesterol -- head to dinnerpartydownload.org.
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