We’ll look at Edgar Bronfman, Jr.'s, takeover of the Warner Music Group, and how he's remaking the music business. Then, two curators talk about the exhibit “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917,” at the Museum of Modern Art. And Anthony Doerr discusses his second collection of short stories, Memory Wall. Plus, our latest Underreported.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Reclaiming NYC’s waterfront; Anthony Weiner on financial reform; the state of hyper-local blogs; and do attractive people really get hired more easily?
Two publishing insiders suggest ways you can turn your book idea into an actual book. Then, Rubén Blades talks about his latest film, “Spoken Word.” Also, Beth Raymer tells stories about her time spent in the high-stakes, freewheeling world of sports betting. Plus, Please Explain is all about suntans and sunburns!
An outdoor concert series in Coney Island kicked off last week with a concert by Neil Sedaka, despite opposition from local synagogues and community groups over noise. Today, New York Times reporter Ben Sisario joins us to look at the tug-of-war over neighborhood summer concerts. Also: cellist Maya Beiser is an intrepid fixture on New York's Downtown music scene. She's here to share some of her latest album, which features modern works inspired by the music of Spain.
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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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.
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.
An outdoor concert series in Coney Island kicked off last week with a concert by Neil Sedaka, despite opposition from local synagogues and community groups over noise. Today, New York Times reporter Ben Sisario joins us to look at the tug-of-war over neighborhood summer concerts. Also: cellist Maya Beiser is an intrepid fixture on New York's Downtown music scene. She's here to share some of her latest album, which features modern works inspired by the music of Spain.
Hear some ambient electro-acoustic music by composer, pianist, and self-taught studio manipulator Jon Hopkins on this edition of New Sounds. Hopkins' music toes the lines between many genres, merging digital dance-trance coldness with shimmering deep textures.
