After a bid that ended early in 2016, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is expected to announce another run for president next week.

WNYC's Culture and Arts Editor Steve Smith recommends some free events to kick off the month of June.

Employers added a whopping 339,000 jobs in May, far above expectations, according to a report from the Labor Department on Friday. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7%, from 3.4% in April.

Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks about the debt ceiling compromise, reintroducing paid family leave, the origins of the COVID pandemic and more.

Each weekday, we’ll bring you three timely updates of top stories, breaking news and in-depth coverage, plus special investigations and feature-length reports.

What exactly IS American food? And what makes us American?

A Queens Museum exhibition depicts the humanity of Corona, Queens residents through paintings of artist Aliza Nisenbaum.

For the past month, The Public Theater's Mobile Unit has been performing a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" in community spaces around New York City.

Marshall talks with Naomi Fry about his live-action remake of the Disney classic, and the right-wing backlash against the casting of a Black woman as Princess Ariel.

The Federal Trade Commission has accused the online retailer of harboring children's data even when parents request it to be deleted, as well giving its Ring employees access to users' videos.

After Wisconsin mom Annie McGrath's teenage son died in a YouTube blackout challenge, she's confronting shareholders at an annual meeting of its parent company.

Micah Loewinger recorded Oath Keepers storming the Capitol. Then he received a subpoena. 

This week, things get weird in songs by The God In Hackney and Goldfeather, and a half century of dance moves from Alex Anwandter and Monsieur Perine. Plus, a Doc Watson tribute album.  

The blues singer and guitarist Ruthie Foster has worked with the Allman Brothers, Blind Boys of Alabama, and pedal steel master Robert Randolph. She plays her feel-good blues in-studio.

Composer and songwriter Yasmin Williams is a fingerstyle lap-tapping guitar player who plays/taps from above. Hear her new score to Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid', from Brookfield Place.

Pearla, the Brooklyn-based artist Nicole Rodriguez, makes off-kilter folk-pop that mixes reality and the surreal. She and her band play weird and wonderful new songs in-studio.

Hakim’s songs can sound a little like Nick Drake fronting a psychedelic soul band from the early 70s. Nick Hakim and his band perform songs from his latest, Cometa, in-studio. 

Join drag performance artist and violinist Thorgy Thor for a celebration as we kick-off Pride Month! 

Latin GRAMMY Award-winning Colombian stars Monsieur Periné perform songs from their new album Bolero Apocaliptico live in The Greene Space, hosted by Latino USA’s Marta Martinez!

As part of The Greene Space’s Wanderlust Wednesdays series, artist and educator Michael Roberson examines the history of the once underground Black and Latinx Ball community from its roots during the Harlem Renaissance as a Black Trans-womanist theological discourse, a Black freedom movement, and a spiritual formation.

The evening will explore the community’s artistic and cultural productions as survival methods in the face of oppression, and how they used the art form “vogue” and the creation of kinship systems as political movements.

Exploring virtually every aspect of the guitar’s personality, the New York Guitar Festival, since 1999, has presented many of the world’s most influential guitarists at iconic venues across the city. From multi GRAMMY Award-winners to emerging artists, performers have included masters of the classical repertoire, pop and indie rock, folk and Americana, sounds of Central and South America and genre-defying innovators. Hosted by New Sounds' John Schaefer.