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Choices, Choices
The Leonard Lopate Show
Airs weekdays at noon
Senator Harry Reid talks about his path from growing up in poverty in Nevada to becoming the Senate Majority Leader. Also: hear where to find America's best artisanal foods, from chocolate and cheese to old-fashioned sodas! Cynthia Ozick on her latest short story collection. And, a panel discussion about the complicated issue of reproductive choice.
Made in China
Studio 360
Airs Saturdays at 10AM on 93.9 FM and Sundays at 7PM on AM 820
China’s global spotlight didn’t start with the Olympics. Hear about China’s strategy for remaking its public image in time for the Games. Meet a musician who sings of the woes of 100 million migrant workers who have left rural homes for China's booming cities. And Kurt Andersen talks with Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, who negotiates the divide between Shanghai and Hollywood.
Hearing Voices
Airs Sundays at 7AM on AM 820
Hearing Voices from NPR® is new weekly hour series of The Best of Public Radio: a sixty-minute stream of “driveway moments."
Stealing the Sunshine to Light Up the Stage
by Jocelyn Gonzales
Aug. 5, 2008
On 23rd St, between the FDR Drive and the East river, sits an unassuming building with a patio that doubles as a stage. The Solar 1 Arts and Education center presents dance troupes, comedians, bands and theatre groups. What sets it apart? The place runs on sunshine.
Cooder, China, Cheetah Legs
Studio 360
Airs Saturdays at 10AM on 93.9 FM and Sundays at 7PM on AM 820
Kurt Andersen walks us through the astonishing architecture of the new Beijing. We’ll hear about the prosthetic limb that may change the future of track and field. Plus, music legend Ry Cooder on his new record I, Flathead -- the third in his trilogy about modern California and its people.
Another one bites the dust
Culturist
The Miller Theater's ambitious executive director, George Steel, is leaving to head the Dallas Opera. The Culturist doesn't get it.
Brooklyn Artists Respond to Waterfalls Guy
The Culture Blog
Inside the Repetti Gallery's new, crumbling warehouse space, Brooklyn artists have taken on the works of international artist Olafur Eliasson. The title of the show is an apt spoof on Eliasson's recent MOMA/PS.1 show "Take Your Time" called "It's About Time, Man.
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.
Street Shots: We Have A Winner!
Join WNYC in celebration of New York's long history of street photography
The winner of WNYC's Street Shots Challenge is 50-year-old self-taught photographer Joe Wigfall. Contest judge Luc Sante calls Wigfall's sensibilities Rembrandtesque. You can see Wigfall's work and that of other Street Shots Challenge participants at the Camera Club of New York (336 West 37th Street), Monday-Friday 12-6 p.m., and Saturdays 2-6 p.m.
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.
(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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