Karen Frillmann

As part of our series on American Icons, WNYC's Karen Frillmann takes a look at how the racial politics of Gone with the Wind play out in 2006, and explores why the story still speaks to readers and viewers today.

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Last night the Jazz Foundation of America took over the Apollo Theater and raised the roof as well as some money to support older jazz and blues musicians, and bring awareness to the continuing need for instruments and affordable housing for musicians in New Orleans.

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Last Night at the New York Buddhist Church on Riverside Drive, there was a commemoration to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. WNYC'S Karen Frillmann was there.

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Today is the third and last day of the Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade. 75,000 people are expected at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens this afternoon despite the 90 ninety degree plus temperatures.

WNYC’s Karen Frillmann went and has this audio postcard.

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Veteran choreographer Bill T. Jones, sultry singer Cassandra Wilson and up-and-coming composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain are collaborating on a project called "Another Evening." This work features the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and will be performed this weekend at Aaron Davis Hall. ...

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The classic way to take a tour around Manhattan is to board one of the Circle Line boats, and spend a few hours on the water. But what about circumnavigating the island on foot? Each year on the first Saturday in May there is a ...

In the year after the September 11^th attacks, Karen Frillman has been thinking about all the ways she's turned to artists to help her understand what's happened.

A Russian painter and his son pass on their knowledge to a new group of iconographers in Santa Fe.

(Originally aired: November 10, 2001)

Karen Frillman offers a portrait of the labor leader and cultural impresario Moe Foner, who died last week at the age of 86. Foner was the executive secretary of the New York's Health and Human Service Union — Local 1199 — and helped it win important battles over wages and ...

A Russian painter and his son pass on their knowledge to a new group of iconographers in Santa Fe.

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A profile of photographer O. Winston Link, who captured the romance and beauty of steam engine trains during the final years of the Norfolk and Western Line. Produced by Karen Frillman.