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(Sherry Ortner's yearbook)
Digging around in strange places for insight, talent, and humor. Anthropologist Sherry Ortner searches for the Class of ’58, Weequahic High, Newark, NJ. Karen Michel goes back to Alaska to find out why she lost her husband to gold fever. We dig for talent at Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. And we poke around in American history, and in the unconscious, to better understand our President.
News from the Not So Distant Future
All the news you haven’t heard before, but might hear someday, in the not so distant future. Produced by Curtis Fox.
Star of Tomorrow
| Michael Locke, Jr., 9 years old |
The Music of Your Life: Dispatches from the Front
Your music is a battlefield. Host Dean Olsher on the war between generations, as fought to the beat of the bossa nova, the Rolling Stones, disco, and Public Enemy. For Dean’s musical selections, click here.
Presidential Dreams
The workings of President Bush’s mind remain a mystery to most of us… but not to Next Big Thing contributor Alice Furlaud. Here, she gets inside the head of our country’s leader, with the help of improv comedian Charlie Schroeder. Produced by Curtis Fox.
Roosevelt Rides Again
When looking for a historical precedent for our current president, some have pointed to Teddy Roosevelt. As Roosevelt scholar Edmund Morris tells Dean Olsher, the theory has some merits, but also some pitfalls. Produced by Michael Kavanagh.
Digging for Gold
Karen Michel’s marriage was destroyed by gold fever. Twenty years later, she attempts to find out how prospecting stole her husband’s heart. Michel is an independent radio producer based in New York.
Anthro 101: Welcome to Weequahic High
Anthropologist Sherry Ortner is best known for her work on the Sherpas in Nepal. In her forthcoming book, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture and the Class of ’58, she brings her ethnographic methods home – to her own high school graduating class.
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