Daily Schedule

CNBC contributor Charles Gasparino explains how the roots of the financial crisis lie in a cultural shift on Wall Street during the 1970s. Then, we’ll take a look at a new report on the impact of arts education on high school graduation rates. And Marcel Theroux discusses about his novel ...

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

California isn’t the only state on the brink of financial collapse. The Pew Center on the States has added New Jersey to their list of states in peril. Barb Rosewicz, spokesperson for the Pew Center and managing editor of Stateline.org, explains why. Plus, getting the swine flu vaccine in NYC; ...

From the 1920s through the '70s, New York City gave rise to an explosion of musical styles: from bebop and Latin, to punk and disco. Today, Tony Fletcher, the author of a new book on music in 20th-century New York explains what unites them all. Also: Rickie Lee Jones, the ...

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

This New Sounds program is devoted to music from Italy, featuring music from Enzo Avitabile using traditional percussion - that of barrels, scythes and sticks - to drive spirits away. We'll also listen to a requiem incorporating the accelerated ecstatic drumming of Alessandra Belloni, with its roots in pre-Christian music. ...