Arts and Ideas
Crackdown
The Leonard Lopate Show
Airs weekdays at noon
In the 1990s, then-mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted his zero-tolerance campaign in New York City. We look into how that crackdown continues to affect New Yorkers. Also: a new documentary about Mobile, Alabama's segregated Mardi Gras celebration.
States of the Union is all about Connecticut. And on Underreported: how former Liberian girl soldiers are adapting to life after that country’s long war.
“Just Because…”
Culturist
Just in time for your staycation, NYC has turned into one big stinky sauna. Thank heavens for YouTube. A gift, from the Culturist
Five Four Time
The Fishko Files
A new song by the popular Icelandic group Sigur Ros is notable for having no time signature at all; it’s impossible to count. It has WNYC’s Sara Fishko pondering time, music, and especially the number 5. Here is the next Fishko Files.
Fake Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Critic Lee Rosenbaum Discusses Forgeries of Ancient Sculpture
July 18, 2008
One third of the Brooklyn Museum's Coptic art collection is fake. And the museum plans to highlight that fact in an exhibition early next year. But critic Lee Rosenbaum says that could be good news for museums and museum patrons.
DJ Shadow Invades McCarren Pool
by Derek John
July 17, 2008
Thursday night in Williamsburg two of hip-hop’s most innovative turntablists DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist invade McCarren Pool. WNYC’s Derek John caught up with DJ Shadow about his lifelong obsession with records. The performance features 8 turntables spinning only 45 rpm records. 45s spin faster than a typical 12 inch, so it’s a real workout for the DJs— and the vinyl too. But Shadow says the records can handle it.
WNYC Broadcasts from New Studios
June 17, 2008
WNYC Radio broadcast live for the first time from its new studios at 160 Varick Street, joined by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
R. Stevie Moore
Spinning On Air
Airs Sunday at 7PM on 93.9 FM
Called "The Godfather of Home Taping," R. Stevie Moore has created, recorded, and distributed hundreds of his idiosyncratic songs and albums since the 1960s. Moore rarely performs outside his bedroom recording studio, but he brings his unique style to the WNYC Studio.
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Food and fairy tales
Selected Shorts
Airs Saturday and Sunday at 4PM on AM 820
Three celebrations of food, and a fairy tale. Award-winning actress Stockard Channing adds her elegant, smoky voice to a classic Grimm’s fairy tale, “The Old Woman in the Wood,” as the program’s opener. Also, works by Calvin Trillin, Molly Giles and Laurie Colwin.
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Chris & Don: A Love Story
by Soterios Johnson
June 11, 2008
A new film sheds light a long-term love affair between the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the American painter Don Bachardy. The documentary is called Chris & Don: A Love Story. It premiered here as part of the NewFest, New York’s LGBT Film festival, which is underway now.
Remembering Columbia, 1968
by Dorian Merina
April 27, 2008
This week marked the 40th Anniversary of the student protests at Columbia University. Dorian Merina spoke with some of those who took part in the protests and filed this report.
Colombian Author is Also Food Market "Delivery Guy"
by Kathleen Horan
April 23, 2008
The city sponsored Immigrant Heritage Week last week but really in New York it's possible to mark the immigrant experience and its effect every day. Writer Joaquin Botero is originally from Colombia. His book "El Jardin en Chelsea" describes working at the Garden of Eden food market on 23rd Street.
(So-Called) Life
Radio Lab
Airs Thursday at 3PM on 93.9 FM
What are the consequences when humans start playing with life? The human imagination has always dreamed up fantastic creatures, but now biotechnology is making it easier and easier for us to actually create forms of life that have never existed before.
Firecracker vs Confetti Tubes
Lunar New Year
Watch our movie to see how these tubes match up against firecrackers when it comes to celebrating the traditions of Lunar New Year. Plus Winnie Yang, editor for “Slow Food,” explains why noodles are forever. Explore the music, food, culture and spirituality of New York's Asian communities through our Lunar New Year Blog and New Moon Rises musical festival.
Blog: Lunar New Year
Video: Firecracker vs Confetti Tube
New Moon Rises Music Festival on WNYC
Map: Lunar New Year Events
Strange Genius:
Tesla + New York
Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City in 1884 with four cents in his pocket and went on to become one of the most revolutionary and controversial scientists of the age. A new book offers a fictional account of his last days and an interactive map explores Tesla’s life in the city during his years of discovery.
Tesla Map
Studio 360: Tesla's New York
Blog: Tesla Author Samantha Hunt
Book excerpt The Invention of Everything Else
Video: Men + Pigeons
Podcast: Get the complete Tesla narrative
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