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George Packer (glynnish/flickr)Wedge Issues
The Democrats are still battling it out in the here and now, but Republicans are already deeply worried about the November elections. New Yorker writer George Packer talks about his recent article, Have the Republicans Run Out of Ideas?. Also: food prices may be on the rise, but that doesn't seem to be pushing us to conserve it: a recent study shows that Americans generate 30 million tons of food waste a year. And: we continue our look at parks around the city with a visit to Travers Park in Jackson Heights, and author Carl Hiaasen talks about his twisted relationship with golf.
Republican Malaise
George Packer, New Yorker staff writer, talks about his article this week on Republican despair and the fall of the conservative movement.
Resistance Formula
Can organic formula make your children crave sweets when they get older? The ingredients in organic may make you want to think twice about that high price. Nina Planck, author of the upcoming, Real Food for Mother and Baby, and New York University professor of food studies Marion Nestle weigh in.
Clean Your Plate
New York Times business reporter Andrew Martin talks about Americans and food waste.
"One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal" (NYT, 5/18/08)
Shanks for the Memories
Author and columnist Carl Hiaasen wanted to be better at something in middle age than he was when he was young. So he foolishly reconnected with golf. He talks about his new memoir, The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport. Joining him is his golfing buddy, Paul Bogaards, executive director of publicity and media relations at Alfred A. Knopf.
Event: Carl Hiaasen will be reading tonight at Barnes and Noble Bookstore at Union Square at 7pm.
Are you a golfer in the city? What's it like to be an urban duffer? Comment below!
It’s My Park: Travers Park
As part of our series on parks around the five boroughs, Len Maniace, chairman of Friends of Travers Park in Jackson Heights, talks about his park.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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