Jon Kalish appears in the following:
A Brief Tour Of The Alimentary Canal, From Spit To You Know What
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter Dies At 76
Monday, April 21, 2014
Classical Pranksters Don't Just Play Music: They Play With It
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Collective Cadenza — CDZA for short — is a loose-knit group of musicians in New York that makes videos. Sounds pretty ordinary, right? But what sets CDZA apart is that these conservatory-trained musicians don't just play music in front of a camera: They play with it, often turning familiar pieces ...
Catching Up With A Pioneer Of The DIY Movement
Thursday, August 29, 2013
If you’ve ever dreamed of being self-sufficient — living off the grid, in a home you built yourself — meet Lloyd Kahn.
He’s an advocate of building your own shelter. His 1973 book, Shelter, is considered one of the seminal works in do-it-yourself building ...
Bread And Puppet Marks 50 Years Of Paper Mache And Protest
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Bread and Puppet Theater has been a familiar presence at political demonstrations since the anti-war protests of the 1960s. Its giant puppets and raucous brass band also marched against wars in Central America, Afghanistan and Iraq. In 1982, Bread and Puppet led a parade in New York that, according to ...
Beloved Yiddish Singer Adrienne Cooper Mourned by Colleagues
Friday, December 30, 2011
Chelsea Record Collector Creates Eclectic Christmas Mixtape
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
If you’re one of those people who say, “Bah, Humbug!” when you hear yet another version of “Silent Night” on the store muzak systems, give a listen to the eclectic holiday mixtape that Chelsea resident Bill Adler has been doing for close to 30 years.
Photo Essay | A Floating Flophouse in the Rockaways
Saturday, July 09, 2011
For $50, guests can spend a night aboard a makeshift flotilla in the Rockaways known as the Boggsville Boatel — a group of five abandoned boats tied together on a dock in an inlet off Jamaica Bay. But the maritime accommodations aren't for everyone.
"Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish" Makes Big Screen Debut
Friday, January 14, 2011
The film "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish," which stars first-time actors who left theirclose-knit Chasidic communities in Brooklyn, debuts at the New York Jewish Film Festival on Sunday at Lincoln Center.
Theater Named After Playwright August Wilson
Monday, October 17, 2005
New York, NY —
Last night Broadway's Virginia Theater was named after playwright August Wilson, who passed away two weeks ago at the age of 60. It is the first theater on the Great White Way to be named after an African-American. Jon Kalish reports.
REPORTER: The rededication ceremony included ...
Orthodox Folk
Saturday, May 03, 2003
Monsey, NY —
A 38 year-old orthodox rabbi in upstate Monsey has been performing his original folk-rock compositions in an East Village nightclub. Jon Kalish has a report on the artist know as Rav Shmuel.On Guard! NY Boasts Great Fencer
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
New York, NY —
One of the greatest American fencers, it turns out, is from the New York area. Peter Westbrook won a bronze medal in sabre fencing at the 1984 Olympics in Atlanta. He fenced competitively into his 40's, which is unheard of in the sport. Westbrook is ...Now Playing: Old Timey Music
Saturday, January 18, 2003
Portland Oregon is the unlikely center of old-timey, jug-band music. The city just wrapped up its the fourth annual Old-Time Music Gathering and the people who came out to out to hear and play early gospel, country, and folk weren’t the nineteen-sixties holdovers you'd expect. Some have blue hair ...
Urban Fish Farm
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Bronx, New York —
Inner City Oceans is an aquaculture company started by a scientist and a lawyer in The Bronx. It operates a fish farm in the basement of an industrial building in the South Bronx, just a stone's throw from the East River. The company raisies tilapia, ...Best Violins in America
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
New York, NY —
Sam Zygmontowicz is considered by many to be one of the best violin makers in America. The 45 year-old Brooklyn craftsman makes instruments in a loft off Flatbush Avenue. Jon Kalish visited his workshop and prepared this report.Orthodox Jews & Organ Transplants
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
New York, NY —
When an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn with failing kidneys appealed for a kidney donor in religious newspapers, he got what by all accounts was an extraordinary number of responses, including one that saved his life. Jon Kalish reports.Fish Out Of Water
Friday, January 12, 2001
Santa Monica, CA —
Paul Krassner is 68 years old but he doesn't look a day older than 55. He is a rarity among Angelenos in that he doesn't drive an automobile. Never got a license.Krassner: I'm a walker but I know how to put 50 cents in the ...
Cyber Guide: Comedy World
Monday, October 30, 2000
Santa Monica, CA —
The technological and business operations for Comedy World are up north in San Francisco but the fledgling network's producers and on-air talent are housed in a kind of trailer park inside a 55,000 square foot warehouse in a section of L.A. known as Marina Del ...
