The Buckminster Fuller exhibit at the Whitney may be all the rage but there are a few other Fuller events and exhibits around the city as well. At the Center for Architecture you can spend some time in the Dymaxion Study Center (open untill September 14th). And across ...

Street Photography is a popular genre, but there is by no means a consensus on what exactly its contours are. In fact all of our Street Shots cast members have different approaches and methods. And check out the 4700+ photos in our contest, again a wide range of themes ...

WNYC Radio and our contest judge Luc Sante are pleased to announce the winner of the Street Shots Challenge: Joe Wigfall.

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The response to our Street Shots contest has been truly overwhelming: 7000+ pictures and 800+ participants. The WNYC culture staff is hard at work identifying potential winners, but we are bringing in a judge with a fine eye to make the final call. Luc Sante, is an author, ...

This morning at 10AM, WNYC Radio broadcast live for the first time from its new studios at 160 Varick Street. Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined WNYC president Laura Walker to welcome the station to its "new digs," the station's new home after 84 years in the Municipal Building at 1 Centre ...

We think we know the ones we love.

Our husbands, our wives. We know them—we are them, sometimes; when separated at a party we find ourselves voicing their opinions, their taste in food or books, telling an anecdote that never happened to us but happened to them. We watch their tics ...

While we we were making our video of Jamel Shabazz, he stopped to talk with a group of street fighters in Union Square. They were tough looking guys, with hoods over their heads, tear drop tattoos, and their fists were raised.

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The New York Photo Festival is underway in Dumbo. Curators from around the world are presenting their ideas regarding the newest and most important trends in contemporary photography, each exhibited in their own pavilion. Andrea Silenzi stopped by as the show was going up, and she found that the festival ...

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Prologue

The Quality of Life Task Force: four sweatshirts in a bogus taxi set up on the corner of Clinton Street alongside the Williamsburg Bridge off-ramp to profile the incoming salmon run; their mantra: Dope, guns, overtime; their motto: Everyone's got something to lose.

"Is dead tonight." ...

WNYC airs a five part series, East Meets West, which examines the ancient and complex relationships among communities found along the Silk Road, produced by the staff of Wisconsin Public Radio’s To The Best of Our Knowledge. Series topics include spirituality, politics, music, movies, trade and art.

Clash Of ...

WNYC.org features two guest bloggers to report on the festivities and culture of the Lunar New Year holiday for two weeks starting Thursday, February 7th.

Composer Huang Ruo Huang Ruo, whose work is featured in WNYC’s “New Moon Rises” Music Festival and who is part of WNYC's New ...

The Third Coast Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program called the 2007 Third Coast Festival Broadcast. The featured documentaries, all winners of the seventh annual TCF / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, represent radio at its finest: moving, insightful, ...

8 p.m. Handel’s Belshazzar broadcast from St. Ignatius Loyola Church.

AM 820

7 p.m. A Conversation with Lidia: Family, Friends and Food - ...

The DNA Files, the award-winning NPR series that explores the mysterious world of the genome and its impact on life in the 21st century, returns to public radio with five new one-hour documentaries. Produced by Berkeley, California-based SoundVision Productions®, the shows are anchored by Peabody- and Emmy-winning correspondent ...

The City’s observance will take place at Zuccotti Park, on Liberty Street between Broadway and Church Streets, on the morning of Tuesday, September 11th. The ceremony will officially begin at 8:40 AM. Families of those who died on September 11th may start arriving at 7:00 AM. Responders to the attack ...

“Stories from the Heart of the Land,” is a 5-part radio series hosted by Jay Allison and produced by WNYC alum Emily Botein. “Stories” features award-winning producers and reporters, including Elizabeth Arnold, Scott Carrier, Sean Cole, The Kitchen Sisters and Jonathan Goldstein. The series documents the variety of ways in ...

“Only in America” tells the story of Jewish immigration from 1654 to the present, and includes profiles of key historical figures including Asser Levy, Levi Strauss, Irving Berlin and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Series

No Dogs or Jews Allowed: The Story of anti-Semitism in America
The story begins ...