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The Leonard Lopate Show
December 05, 2008
After water, tea is the most widely-consumed drink in the world. Please Explain is all about tea! Find out why it’s so popular, and how it’s shaped world history.
Sondheim’s Road Show
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 05, 2008
Stephen Sondheim’s musical, "Road Show," tells the story of two brothers on a quest for the American Dream. It’s now at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette St.) through Dec. 28.
Intersexuality
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 05, 2008
About 1% of babies are born with some degree of sexual ambiguity. We look into how people who are have ambiguous genitalia or a combination of male and female body parts cope in a gender-based society.
Jazz Photography
The Fishko Files
December 05, 2008
An exhibition of classic jazz photographs is now showing in New York. It inspired WNYC’s Sara Fishko to talk about the art of photographing jazz with a couple of it’s most admired practitioners. Here is the next Fishko Files...
Click HERE to watch a slideshow of some of the jazz photographs by Herman Leonard and Roy Decarava. Also included are three photos from Three Wishes, a new book by The Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter(aka Nica).
Red Hot +Rio
December 03, 2008
Almost 20 years ago, the "Red Hot" organization came up with a strategy to raise awareness and money around HIV/AIDS prevention. They presented big benefit concerts and multi-cultural, multi-artist ....
Kay Scarpetta in New York City
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 04, 2008
The latest in
Dawn Upshaw in "Ainadamar"
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 04, 2008
Soprano
Event:
Dawn Upshaw will be performing
Sun. Dec. 7 at 2:00 PM
at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
Tickets and info here
Guns and Football
December 03, 2008
Guns and football. It's a combination that's far more common than just the Plaxico Burress incident this weekend. The Giants put an end to the star wide receiver's season and suspended him for acti....
Path to Peace in the Middle East
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 03, 2008
Peace in the Middle East is one of the most pressing items on President-Elect Obama’s long to-do list. Former Speaker of the Knesset
Event: Avraham Burg will be answering questions on WNYC's Art.Cult blog as part of the New York Public Library’s “Live” series! Submit your questions here.
19th-Century Calcutta
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 03, 2008
Event:
Amitav Ghosh will be speaking with Kwame Anthony Appiah
Mon. Dec. 15, 7-9 pm
Asia Society
725 Park Ave.
Tickets and more info here
Patti LaBelle’s Recipes for the Good Life
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 03, 2008
Singer, author and actress
The Real McCoy
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 03, 2008
Great jazz pianist
Frank Langella
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 04, 2008
Not every actor can be seen as a Catholic martyr and a disgraced US President in the same day. Three-time Tony Award winner
Seating the Mayor at the New Yankees Stadium
December 01, 2008
Hundreds of pages of e-mails, made public over the holiday weekend, are detailing the Bloomberg Administration's efforts to secure the free use of a a luxury suite at the new Yankee Stadium. The May....
Star Wide Reciever Catches Bloomberg's Wrath
December 01, 2008
Giants receiver Plaxico Burress pleaded not guilty today to two charges of criminal possession of an unlicensed handgun, after accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub. Mayor Bloomberg....
The Jazz Ear
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 02, 2008
We look into how listening to jazz music can be a collaborative experience. New York Times music critic
Event:
Ben Ratliff will be interviewing Gal Costa & Cassandra Wilson
about the music that has mattered most to them
Sun. Jan. 11 at 2:00 PM
TimesCenter Stage
242 W. 41st St.
Juliana Hatfield Grows Up
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 02, 2008
Singer/songwriter
Leaving the Family Business
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 02, 2008
Conductor
The Man Who Owns the News
The Leonard Lopate Show
December 02, 2008
Find out how far-reaching Rupert Murdoch’s $70 billion media kingdom is, and how it shapes the news we get every day.
Event:
Michael Wolff will give a talk
Wed. Jan. 14 at 12 noon
92Y Tribeca
200 Hudson Street
Virtually Classical
Soundcheck
December 02, 2008
You can practice your way to Carnegie Hall, or you can YouTube your musical ambitions. Yesterday, Google announced the YouTube Symphony Orchestra a new marketing project designed to take classical music out of pricey concert halls and bring it to the masses. It involves a series of organizations including Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Today,
