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The Next Big Thing Archive
August 2002
Everything About a Pool
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Next Big Thing host Dean Olsher weaves together a tale of many voices and one big pool. Which pool? A giant WPA-era pool in north Brooklyn. Everyone in the neighborhood, it seems, has a story to tell about the major public work that, for better and for worse, was built in their backyard – from Loretta Nunziata, who used to perform water ballet in the pool to Phyllis Yampolsky, who has made enemies on the pool’s behalf. The McCarren Park Pool hour was produced by Amanda Aronczyk and Emily Botein
View a slideshow of the McCarren Park Pool
Voice Tour of New York City
Sunday, August 18, 2002
The Next Big Thing invites out-of-towners and locals alike to take a voice tour of New York City. We go back-stage at the Amato Opera, which, it turns out, isn’t all that far from the back row. We follow playwright and poet Carl Hancock Rux down the hallway of one of his earliest memories. And we meet the changing characters of performer Sarah Jones.
Music to Your Ears
Sunday, August 11, 2002
The Next Big Thing is music, music, music, from the Dominican Republic, Italy, Norway, the Phillipines and West Africa, all by way of New York.
Relief
Sunday, August 04, 2002
The Next Big Thing is relief from the heat… comic, and otherwise. We (briefly) cede the airwaves to an uninvited talk show host named Jonathan Katz, visit with the founders of a camp for Cabbage Patch dolls, and call up the ghosts of anarchists past.