Survival Skills

Monday, June 29, 2009

Bernard Madoff is being sentenced today! Andy Borowitz has some suggestions for how Mr. Madoff can survive after he trades in his pin stripes for horizontal ones. Then, what art and science can learn from each other. Also, Michele Cohen gives us a comprehensive history of art projects in New York's Public Schools. Plus, journalist Paula Span shares the stories of several families taking care of elderly relatives that are too frail to live alone but are too healthy for a nursing home. We’ll also be joined by the president of the New York Chapter of Professional Geriatric Managers and a woman who is caring for an aging parent.

We Want Your Recipes!
Do you have a secret ingredient that transforms a recipe? A favorite dish that you’ve made your own? The Lopate Show is collecting your adapted recipes! Chef Michael Lomonaco will be reading them all, and he’ll be here in July to pick his favorite dish and cook it with the winner! It’s all part of our Food in the City series. Submit your recipe here. The deadline is July 1!

Land of Plenty

Friday, June 26, 2009

Veteran reporters Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman explain how hunger and malnutrition still exist in the modern world. Documentarian Havana Marking on her new film "Afghan Star," about the Kabul version of American Idol. Then, Werner Herzog discusses Conquest of the Useless, his recently published diary about the making of his film "Fitzcarraldo." Plus, Please Explain is all about dry cleaning!

We Want Your Recipes!
Do you have a secret ingredient that transforms a recipe? A favorite dish that you’ve made your own? The Lopate Show is collecting your adapted recipes! Chef Michael Lomonaco will be reading them all, and he’ll be here in July to pick his favorite dish and cook it with the winner! It’s all part of our Food in the City series. Submit your recipe here. The deadline is July 1!

Known Unknowns

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Washington Post reporter Bradley Graham analyzes Donald Rumsfeld’s tenure at the Pentagon. Then we’ll learn about the "Secret Policemen’s Film Festival," a series showcasing 30 years of comedy/rock benefit performances for Amnesty International. Then Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Gary Tinterow discusses the first major exhibition in 20 years devoted to the work of Francis Bacon. Plus, our latest Underreported looks at political corruption in Kenya.

We Want Your Recipes!
Do you have a secret ingredient that transforms a recipe? A favorite dish that you’ve made your own? The Lopate Show is collecting your adapted recipes! Chef Michael Lomonaco will be reading them all, and he’ll be here in July to pick his favorite dish and cook it with the winner! It’s all part of our Food in the City series. Submit your recipe here. The deadline is July 1!

Drama and Dreamers

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Anne Hathaway and Raul Esparza talk about their roles in the latest Shakespeare in the Park production of "Twelfth Night." Justine Hardy describes living for twenty years in the disputed province of Kashmir. Then, Slate’s Fred Kaplan on the three key events in 1959 that changed the world. Plus, Peter G. Peterson of The Blackstone Group shares his thoughts on the current state of the economy.

We Want Your Recipes!
Do you have a secret ingredient that transforms a recipe? A favorite dish that you’ve made your own? The Lopate Show is collecting your adapted recipes! Chef Michael Lomonaco will be reading them all, and he’ll be here in July to pick his favorite dish and cook it with the winner! It’s all part of our Food in the City series. Submit your recipe here. The deadline is July 1!

The Earth and Beyond

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin looks back at landing on the moon 40 years ago, and the turns his life has taken since then. Dean Olsher on the history and psychology of crossword puzzles. Then, the directors of the film "Mrs. Goundo's Daughter," about a Malian mother's fight to protect her daughter for genital mutilation by seeking asylum in the United States. Plus, a look at some independent farmers who are fighting against agribusiness.

We Want Your Recipes!
Do you have a secret ingredient that transforms a recipe? A favorite dish that you’ve made your own? The Lopate Show is collecting your adapted recipes! Chef Michael Lomonaco will be reading them all, and he’ll be here in July to pick his favorite dish and cook it with the winner! It’s all part of our Food in the City series. Submit your recipe here.

From Cooking to Conducting

Monday, June 22, 2009

In part three of our Food in the City series, New York Times food writer Melissa Clark talks about cooking in a small kitchen. Then, Bill Wasik, senior editor at Harper’s magazine, on how the Internet is changing not only the way we communicate but also how we think. Filmmaker Naftaly Gliksberg talks abuot his new documentary about anti-Semitism around the world today. Plus, Lorin Maazel, soon to be the former Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, on life after Lincoln Center.

We want your "New York" recipes!
Share your recipes – from your New York. They can be recipes you brought with you from somewhere else and adapted to your new home here in the city or just personal touches you’ve added to classic recipes over the years. Submit your recipe here.

Something in the Air

Friday, June 19, 2009

Why is Lyme disease so often misdiagnosed? The director of the documentary "Under Our Skin" investigates the emerging epidemic. Patricia Clarkson and Evan Rachel Wood talk about their roles in the new Woody Allen film "Whatever Works." Then, we’ll "put our nose to the grindstone" and investigate the history of idioms. Plus, Please Explain is all about the atmosphere.

We want your "New York" recipes!
Share your recipes – from your New York. They can be recipes you brought with you from somewhere else and adapted to your new home here in the city or just personal touches you’ve added to classic recipes over the years. Submit your recipe here.

On the Brink

Thursday, June 18, 2009

We’ll get an update on human trafficking and slavery taking place right here in the United States. Then, Susan Sellers on the relationship between sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. And Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne on why 1939 was such a great year for films. Also, the latest on the Iranian political crisis and its effect on its troubled neighbor, Iraq. Plus, Underreported examines why the Brazilian government is building walls around Rio de Janeiro’s shantytowns.

We want your "New York" recipes!
Share your recipes – from your New York. They can be recipes you brought with you from somewhere else and adapted to your new home here in the city or just personal touches you’ve added to classic recipes over the years. Submit your recipe here.

Secrets

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Premier Zhao Ziyang was one of China’s leading liberal reformers until he was purged from the government and arrested after the Tiananmen Square Protests. On today's show, we’ll talk to veteran human rights activist Bao Pu, the editor and translator of a new book based on secret tapes made by Premier Zhao that were smuggled out of the country. Then, a survivor tells the story of Air New England flight 248, which crashed on Cape Cod thirty years ago. And Isabel Fonseca discusses her novel Attachment, about a woman’s midlife crisis on a remote island in the Indian ocean. Plus, word maven Patricia T. O’Conner takes your calls about grammar and the English language.

We want your "New York" recipes!
Share your recipes – from your New York. They can be recipes you brought with you from somewhere else and adapted to your new home here in the city or just personal touches you’ve added to classic recipes over the years. Submit your recipe here.

Food for Thought

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

We're coming to you live today from WNYC’s street-level Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, on the corner of Varick and Charlton Streets. And to start us off, Peter Hoffman, the chef/owner of Savoy and Back Forty, joins us for part two of our new series Food in the City—to reveal what a chef looks for when buying produce at a green market. Then, Gourmet magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl and Slow Food USA’s Josh Viertel on whether healthy meals can also be affordable. And we mark the 40th anniversary of Stonewall by looking at how the LGBT community has been portrayed on film over the past four decades, as part of our Projections series.

Blood and Politics

Monday, June 15, 2009

Just days after the shootings at the Holocaust Museum, Leonard Zeskind gives us insight into the psychology of white supremacists over the past three decades. Then, Francis Ford Coppola discusses his latest film "Tetro." We’ll get a preview of BAMcinemaFEST. Plus, Alistair Horne on Henry Kissinger and the pivotal year of 1973—from Vietnam to Watergate to the Arab oil embargo.

Click here for more information about our Food in the City recipe contest.

RSVP to the Lopate Show’s Projections screening of "Parting Glances" on June 16th at WNYC’s Greene Space here: projections@wnyc.org

The Birds and the Bees

Friday, June 12, 2009

Today we’ll have an on-air barbeque taste test with two famous pitmasters. Then, the phrase "bird brain" is used as a put-down, but we’ll talk to a leading neurobiologist and a cognitive scientist about the parallels between human and bird brain development. We’ll go an expedition to discover the origins of the universe by using a telescope in a balloon...with filmmaker Paul Devlin and a scientist. And we'll hear the latest on the Iranian elections from Christiane Amanpour in Tehran. Plus, Please Explain is all about bees.

RSVP to the Lopate Show’s Projections screening of "Parting Glances" on June 16th at WNYC’s Greene Space here: projections@wnyc.org

From Food to Fatherhood

Thursday, June 11, 2009

We kick off our new series, Food in the City—about reinterpreting and adapting recipes for New York City living—with chef Michael Lomonaco. Then, we’ll talk about the highs and lows of being a dad with the editor of, and contributors to, a new anthology about fatherhood. Plus, our latest Underreported segments.

RSVP to the Lopate Show’s Projections screening of "Parting Glances" on June 16th at WNYC’s Greene Space here: projections@wnyc.org

Picking a Winner

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi judged the entries to our t-shirt design contest, and on today's show he speaks with the winners. Frances Osborne tells the tale of her great-grandmother, a notorious British flapper. Then, Pamela Yates discusses her new documentary "The Reckoning," about the International Criminal Court. Plus, Al and Larry Ubell answer your questions about home repair.

RSVP to the Lopate Show’s Projections screening of "Parting Glances" on June 16th at WNYC’s Greene Space here: projections@wnyc.org

Take Me Out

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Keith Hernandez gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the Mets’ final season at Shea Stadium. Then, Michael Shapiro explains the controversy that threatened the future of baseball in the 1950s. Judith Jamison, Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, on the company’s 50th anniversary performances at BAM. Plus, we discuss reintegrating convicts into society with justice system reformer Sunny Schwartz and a former prison inmate.

RSVP to the Lopate Show’s Projections screening of "Parting Glances" on June 16th at WNYC’s Greene Space here:projections@wnyc.org

What They Knew

Monday, June 08, 2009

Vanity Fair contributing editor David Margolick gives us some insight into lives of Bernard Madoff’s sons and what they knew about what their father was doing. We’ll hear about a new series at MoMA on the diverse world of contemporary Indian cinema. Rick Steves talks about how his travels around the globe have changed his political perspectives. Plus, a son's investigation into the murder of his father--a Ugandan chief who was allegedly killed by Idi Amin's men in 1972.

Away We Go

Friday, June 05, 2009

Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes discusses his latest film. And Guillermo del Toro on his novel about vampires. Plus, this week’s Please Explain is all about how we hear.

It's a Leonard Lopate Show listener contest! Let's get creative! Click here to find out more about our listener contest with designer Isaac Mizrahi to design your own t-shirt! or you can submit your design directly to Flickr here.

But hurry! Today is the deadline for entries!

Reaping What You Sow

Thursday, June 04, 2009

A growing number of Americans are paying closer attention than ever to where our food comes from, who controls the food supply, and what choices to make at the grocery store. Molecular biologist Lisa H. Weasel takes us into the center of the debate over genetically modified foods. Plus, our latest Underreported.

It's a Leonard Lopate Show listener contest! Let's get creative! Click here to find out more about our listener contest with designer Isaac Mizrahi to design your own t-shirt! or you can submit your design directly to Flickr here.

But hurry! The deadline for entries is Friday, June 5th.

Challenging Expectations

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

On today’s show: Dr. Maria Siemionow on leading the team that performed the first face transplant in the United States. Then, Warren St. John tells us about a soccer program for war refugees. Plus, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel and director Megumi Sasaki on a new documentary about how the Vogels amassed an impressive art collection a modest incomes.

It's a Leonard Lopate Show listener contest! Let's get creative! Click here to find out more about our listener contest with designer Isaac Mizrahi to design your own t-shirt! or you can submit your design directly to Flickr here

Course Corrections

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

On today’s show: David Sedaris on his latest collection of essays. Then, Megan Mylan, director of the Oscar winning documentary "Smile Pinki." Plus, Andy Raskin talks about how meeting the inventor of instant Ramen noodles saved his love life.

It's a Leonard Lopate Show listener contest! Let's get creative! Click here to find out more about our listener contest with designer Isaac Mizrahi to design your own t-shirt! or you can submit your design directly to Flickr here

From Reading to Reynolds

Monday, June 01, 2009

On today’s show: a panel discussion about e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle. Then, Michael Lewis on his experience of fatherhood. Plus, Debbie Reynolds.

It's a Leonard Lopate Show listener contest! Let's get creative! Click here to find out more about our listener contest with designer Isaac Mizrahi to design your own t-shirt! or you can submit your design directly to Flickr here