The UN recently put out a list of the top 10 underreported stories. It includes bad news, like the growing number of AIDS orphans in Africa and overfishing in our seas, but also some good news, like development of civil society in Tajikistan.
Arts Downtown
Etta Sanders reporter and contributor at the community newspaper Tribeca Trib discusses community reaction to the Freedom Center and Robin Pogrebin Cultural Reporter for the New York Times on the final selections for the cultural center on the formal World Trade Center site
Arts Downtown
Tom Bernstein Co-Founder and President of Chelsea Piers, and Originator of idea for Freedom Center with filmmaker Peter W. Kunhardt on his work planning the Freedom Center at the World Trade Center site
Rhyming Pundit
Calvin Trillin New Yorker staff writer, Nation Magazine "deadline poet" and author, Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme (Random House, 2004) on his new collection of political poems
While You Were Sleepin
Shashi Tharoor Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations gives the update on the world's top ten underreported news stories
Labor's Losses
Rob Hugh-Jones senior reporter in The World's London bureau
Deadline
Katey Chevigny Co-Producer/Co-Director of Deadline, a documentary to be screened this weekend (works with Big Mouth Productions)on her documentary about former Illinois Governor George Ryan giving clemency to all death row inmates on his departure and Larry Marshall Professor at Northwestern University and Director of the Center on ...
The Great Communicator
Please take a look at our extended blog entry, we have compiled some of your emails honoring Ray Charles.
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