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The Next Big Thing

Saturday, June 22, 2002

What’s the Next Big Thing?

You tell us, at nextbigthing.org. Host Dean Olsher heads to Bedford Stuyvesant, locale of Sal’s Pizza in Spike Lee’s movie “Do the Right Thing,” to ask the question, “What’s the next big thing?”

A Slice of Celebrity

Those signed celebrity photos hanging on the walls of pizza parlors throughout the city – are they for real? Reporter Jesse Wegman gets to the bottom of the question, with this NBT I-Team Special Report.

The Search for the Original Ray’s

The Manhattan phone book lists 23 pizzerias called Ray’s - or Original Ray’s, or Famous Original Ray’s… you get the idea. This is a mostly true story about one man’s search for the REAL Ray. Based on “Original, Original: The Search for the Original Ray” a film produced by Paul Kamuf and Paul Starkman, and featuring actor Sam Marks.

Chowhound Orders a Stack

Potato pancakes… in a Pancake House? What was he thinking? Chowhound Jim Leff takes a wrong turn in New Jersey.

Holy Soul

For many teens coming of age in the 1970s, the Beat poets served as rebel heroes. Matt Power was no different. Then he met Allen Ginsberg. In the flesh. Power’s recollections first appeared in an essay in the new magazine Heeb.

Cat Call

Having cat troubles? Cat lover but not necessarily cat expert Alice Furlaud takes your calls.

Street Dogs

Every day street kids in Seattle have to figure out where to sleep, where to find their next meal, how to survive. And yet some are willing to take on the additional responsibility of caring for another being. Produced by Jake Warga and Matt Perry, with help from Transom.org.