Sarah Montague appears in the following:
Turning the Tables at Happy Ending
Thursday, June 10, 2010
If you know what 33 1/3 means, you're either over sixty, an audiophile, or a DJ.
Finding Your Inner Snark: New Yorker Cartoonists at Happy Ending
Monday, May 24, 2010
Like rich people, cartoonists are different from you and me. They see the world as a series of absurd scenes awaiting captions.
Writing on the Dark Side
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Sex and crime—genre fiction mainstays—come together with "literary" writing in a new anthology edited by bestselling crime writer SJ Rozan and Jonathan Santlofer.
There is No Farewell to Arms: War and the Novel at PEN
Friday, May 14, 2010
Four novelists from Afghanistan, Israel, Romania, and Spain discuss how war has influenced their lives and their works at the PEN World Voice Festival. Listen to the event here.
Love, Marriage, and Cruelty: Alan Rickman Explains Strindberg’s 'Creditors'
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Actor/director Alan Rickman spoke with the New York Public Library's Paul Holdengraber about his new staging of of Strindberg’s Creditors. Listen to their discussion here.
Searching for Silence at the NYPL
Friday, April 30, 2010
Talk to Me: 'Eight White Nights' with André Aciman
Friday, April 09, 2010
Writer André Aciman spoke about love, literature and his new novel Eight White Nights with NYPL President Paul LeClerc. Listen to their conversation here.
Talk to Me: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Family and Ancestry
Friday, April 02, 2010
Historian and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. discussed geneaology, genetics and American history at the New-York Historical Society. Listen to Gates talks about his own family history.
Talk To Me: Mark Morris' Mind in Motion
Friday, March 26, 2010
Choreographer Mark Morris spoke with neuroscientist Bevil R. Conway about mind and movement for the Rubin Museum of Art's Brainwave series. Listen to their discussion here.
Talk To Me: Celebrating Humorist Sholem Aleichem
Friday, March 26, 2010
Laughter filled The Cornelia Street Café at an event in late March honoring the 150th birthday of Yiddish humorist and humanist Sholem Aleichem.
A Confederacy of Dogs: Crufts 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
In Walt Disney’s 'Fantasia,' one sequence in the section about evolution shows various fish being sequentially swallowed by yet larger fish.
I was reminded of this when I arrived in England to attend Crufts (or dfs Crufts, to give its major corporate sponsor, the furniture retailer DFS, ...
Violent Delights: The Red Bull Theater's Duchess of Malfi
Friday, March 05, 2010
Download a love scene from the Red Bull Theater's new production of the 17th century Jacobean hit, The Duchess of Malfi.
Charles Addams' "New York"
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
There is the New York of skyscrapers and brownstones, plazas and parks, busy streets and isolated nooks. And then there is Charles Addams’ New York — the same landscape, but suddenly filled with ogres, trolls, witches, and just plain weirdness.
Talk To Me: Authors' Worlds Collide
Friday, February 19, 2010
Joshua Ferris, Ron Carlson and Padgett Powell join forces at Joe's Pub as part of the Happy Ending series.
Hotel for Dogs
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show concluded this week, and as the winner, Sadie the Scottish Terrier, makes the rounds in New York,the staff of the Hotel Pennsylvania, opposite Madison Square Garden, return to life as normal.
...Sadie the Scottish Terrier Wins Westminster Dog Show
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
For show dogs, it all came down to last night's results. After weeks of grooming, pampering and prepping, the officials at the Westminster Dog Show declared Sadie, a four-year-old Scottish Terrier, the "Best in Show."
Comments on The Takeaway's Dog Show Contestants
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Sarah Montague has a keen eye for dogs, and took some time before covering the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show for WNYC to pick eight of our many, many Takeaway Dog Show contestants and offer some trenchant commentary.
Fetching: Notes From the 2010 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The mythic village of Brigadoon appears only once every hundred years, but the ephemeral, tumultuous world of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, held at Madison Square Garden, transforms New York once a year. Each ...