Star Tribune’s Gail Rosenblum’s Feature on CG
Recently I had the privilege of being interviewed by Star Tribune award-winning writer and author Gail Rosenblum. We sat down in Minneapolis just after Christmas over a cup of coffee. This is the result, published on January 12, 2013… Rosenblum: Classically trained actor steps into new role: Radio host
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer: A Measured Voice of Reason on Climate Change (audio)
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He’s also been a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His extensive body of work is as impressive [...]
Marc Levin: Director, HBO’s “Hard Times: Lost on Long Island” (audio)
Marc Levin is an award-winning flimmaker of independent films, episodic television and documentaries. His enormous body of work includes a 20-year relationship with HBO, producing 12 films for their America Undercover series that garnered him Emmy and CableACE awards. For Showtime, he executive produced the verite-styled television series Street Time, directing 10 episodes. His Twilight Los Angeles was an [...]
Laura Roesler: Talent, Class and Grace (audio)
Every now and then, an athlete comes along who makes even the most casual fan of a particular sport stop and take notice of their brilliance. University of Oregon track sensation Laura Roesler is one of those athletes. While attending Fargo South High School (North Dakota), she dominated her sport so thoroughly, it wouldn’t have surprised anyone if [...]
Listener Email: Barry, The God Agenda, and CG (audio)
Every chance we get, we effort to include listeners into our program in ways beyond taking their calls or reading their emails while breaking down a topic or when a guest is on with me. Sometimes we’ll invite a listener to do a movie review. Other times we’ll make one of them our Elite Basketball Mind. [...]
Minot Bishop Ryan Softball: Winners on the Field, Winners in Life (audio)
It happens when you least expect it. The chance meeting, the proverbial door opening up to opportunity… or, a moment of clarity provided at the most unlikely time by an equally unlikely source. Enter, the Bishop Ryan High School (Minot, ND) softball team. On Friday, June 1st, I did my radio program from Scheels. To understand [...]
The Definition of Character: Samantha Meyer (audio)
Every now and again you meet someone, or perhaps you read about them, who makes you take a breath to think about the things you believe are weighing you down in your everyday life. Bills, a nagging cold that takes too long to go away, your children not going to bed at night… you get the [...]
Christine Brennan: A Writer’s Writer (audio)
There are writers. And then there are writers. I’m a writer. Most who sit at a computer, whether they’re a monthly blogger in Kansas or a twice-weekly columnist for a major newspaper in New York City, rarely rise to the level of italics. However, when we’re discussing, say, Mitch Albom or Michael Wilbon – they’re writers. That class of writer is [...]
Jay Wilkinson: Dear Jay, Love Dad (audio)
Bud Wilkinson was one of the most prolific college football coaches of all time. With a record of 145-29-4, three national championships, 14 Big 8 championships and inclusion into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969, he did for Oklahoma football what John Wooden did for UCLA basketball and Bear Bryant did for Alabama football. The [...]
Chris Lower on LVAD’s and Keeping Your Heart Happy (audio)
Chris Lower has been a good friend for a number of years now. A former football player, happily married, three beautiful children and wonderfully successful as the director of marketing, PR and social media for Minneapolis-based Sterling Cross Communications (he’s also co-owner). For as long as I’ve known him he’s been a high-energy, “all systems [...]
Barry Weiss: Road Trip to Fargo (audio)
The only thing better than having Barry Weiss, the breakout star from A&E’s Storage Wars, live on the phone is having him live in studio for The Christopher Gabriel Program. Dinner with Barry on Sunday night, two hours on the program Monday, lunch that afternoon… toss in Tim Beers, Jr. and Tim Urian, producers from Original Productions [...]
Andrew Young on Martin Luther King, Jr. (audio)
Andrew Young was there. In Birmingham, in Selma, in Memphis… he was there. He watched history in the making. Thinking about him over the years, that’s what I’d say when his name would come up in discussion. Shortly before Mr. Young came on my program I told a WDAY colleague, “Andrew Young is a connection to [...]
Gingerbread People: The Controversy (audio)
One of the most intense controversies sweeping America: Gingerbread People. I’ve been overwhelmed with emails and phone calls asking if I would do a little digging to better understand what’s at the bottom of gingerbread people. Specifically, the gingerbread men – they appear to be naked. The women, however – clothed. That’s the crux of [...]
Lessons in Ethics from The Bolles School (audio)
One of the things I’ve spoken about on my program many times is the seeming lack of athletic stories involving character, dignity and class. Sadly, it’s something in step with our country both socially and culturally. But it manifests itself most prominently in athletics. Drugs, fights in bars, cheating by coaches and athletes alike… the [...]
John Nichols (audio)
John Nichols is one of the most respected voices in Washington when the subject is politics and the media. And in Washington, when isn’t there discussion on politics and the media? Mr. Nichols is the associate editor of The Capital Times (Madison, WI) and is the author of seven books on politics and the media. He writes about [...]
