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Losing Ground
Astroland, Yankee Stadium, and Café La Fortuna are among the many New York City landmarks that closed down this year. Steve Zeitlin executive director of City Lore and Brooks of Sheffield, the author of the Lost City blog, offer a post-mortem of the local landmarks and institutions lost in 2008. Plus, was the $700 billion TARP bailout a bust?
Lost City
Steve Zeitlin executive director of City Lore and co-author of Hidden New York: A Guide to Places That Matter, and Brooks of Sheffield, the pseudonym of the author of the Lost City blog, offer a postmortem of the local establishments lost in 2008.
Question of the Day: What New York City establishment that closed in 2008 will you miss the most? Comment below.
Is the Bailout a Bust?
Nomi Prins senior fellow at Demos, former investment banker and author of piece on the Trouble Assets Relief Program in this week's The Nation Magazine, and Dan Gross senior editor at Newsweek, who has covered TARP's implementation, assess whether the Wall Street bailout is working.
2008 News Quiz: Another Chance
Here's another chance to test your wits. More quiz questions on the news of 2008.
Listen to the Monday's Brian Lehrer Show 2008 News Quiz (12/29/08)
Violence in Gaza
David Makovsky, a senior fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at The Washington Institute, and Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut and editor-at-large of The Daily Star newspaper, analyze the increasing violence in Gaza and what it means for the Middle East region.
Tying the Ribbon on 2008
We continue to look back at 2008 with a few more news quiz questions, and a call-in, year-end, question of the day:
If 2008 was a fable, what's the moral of the story? Comment below!- About the Brian Lehrer Show »
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
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")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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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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