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Smoke rising in sunlight (© Joel Meyerowitz/Aftermath)Before and After 9/11
We devote our full show today to remembering the 9/11 attacks, and exploring their continuing impact. First, Lawrence Wright's groundbreaking account of the events leading up to the attacks. Then, Joel Meyerowitz shares his Ground Zero photos. And we hear the firsthand accounts of students who were in school in lower Manhattan on 9/11. Plus, we ask how architects have responded in the wake of the attacks.
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright examines the terrorist plans and intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on 9/11 in The Looming Tower.
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Photos from Ground Zero
Joel Meyerowitz tells us what he saw during the nine months he spent photographing Ground Zero. His new collection of photos is Aftermath.
Slideshow: Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
Events: Joel Meyerowitz will be speaking and presenting a slideshow as part of a commemoration of 9/11
Monday, September 11 at 7 pm
The New York Public Library
The Rose Main Reading Room
For tickets, visit The New York Public Library website
Joel Meyerowitz will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, September 12 at 7 pm
Union Square Barnes & Noble
Growing Up with 9/11
Three students who were in school in lower Manhattan tell us what they remember about the 9/11 attacks, and talk about their impact on their lives. Dakota Straub is a freshman at Barnard, who was attending Stuyvesant High School five years ago. Sam Hausner-Levine, was going to St. Ann's at the time, and is a senior there now. And Julia Delmedico was a first grader attending her second day at school at PS 234.
Architecture Post 9/11
Eugene Kohn, the chairman of the NYC-based architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, structural engineer Leslie Robertson, who has been responsible for hundreds of buildings around the world including the World Trade Center, and Carol Willis, the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper Museum, talk about architecture in a post-9/11 world. They discuss how the collapse of the towers has influenced the way architects have thought about tall buildings ever since.
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Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.
