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Jazz Photography (The Fishko Files: Friday, 05 December 2008)

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:00 GMT

An exhibition of classic jazz photographs is now showing in New York. It inspired WNYC’s Sara Fishko to talk about the art of photographing jazz with a couple of it’s most admired practitioners. Here is the next Fishko Files...

Click HERE to watch a slideshow of some of the jazz photographs by Herman Leonard and Roy Decarava. Also included are three photos from Three Wishes, a new book by The Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter(aka Nica).

Deficit Dove (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 December 2008)

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:01 GMT

Matt Miller, columnist for Fortune, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, host of KCRW’s Left, Right & Center and the author of the forthcoming The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity (Times Books, 2009) discusses his latest column "How to Love Trillion Dollar Deficits".

Red Hot +Rio

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:33 GMT

Almost 20 years ago, the "Red Hot" organization came up with a strategy to raise awareness and money around HIV/AIDS prevention. They presented big benefit concerts and multi-cultural, multi-artist ....

Goodwill to All (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 December 2008)

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:42 GMT

Khaled Hosseini, author of two best-selling novels set in Afghanistan, talks about his role as a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Also, Fortune columnist and “Left, Right & Center” host Matt Miller explains how he “stopped worrying and learned to love trillion dollar deficits.”

Kay Scarpetta in New York City (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 04 December 2008)

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:00 GMT

The latest in Patricia Cornwell's best-selling crime series, Scarpetta, follows forensic psychologist Kay Scarpetta on an assignment in New York City that starts at Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward.

Miguel Zenon (Soundcheck: Thursday, 04 December 2008)

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:00 GMT

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Miguel Zenon saved money to come to the U.S. by playing in salsa bands with friends. Now, at 31, the New York-based saxophonist has received the MacArthur Genius Award for his blend of jazz and Puerto Rican jibaro music. He joins us for an interview.

Two Sides (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 04 December 2008)

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:00 GMT

Not every actor can be seen in the same day portraying a Catholic martyr and a disgraced US President! Frank Langella talks about his current roles as Richard Nixon and Sir Thomas More. Also: soprano Dawn Upshaw and crime writer Patricia Cornwell. And on Underreported: find out about the physical scars torture leaves.

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