Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz talks about the state of—and propects for—the economy, as part of our ongoing election series The Big Picture. Then, Grammy Award-winning vibraphonist Gary Burton, talks about his five decades in music. Also, R. Tripp Evans discusses the work and legacy of the painter Grant Wood. Plus, our word maven Patricia T. O’Conner takes your calls on the peculiarities of the English language.
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David Sedaris discusses his latest collection of short stories, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk. Then, on Underreported, an investigation onto what life is like for gay people in Iraq, and how the gay population has been targeted since the fall of Saddam. Plus, we’ll look at the impact that campaign donations can have on judicial elections long after the polls have closed.
Before CVS Pharmacy moved into the ground floor of Thompson and Bleecker in Greenwich Village, the Village Gate nightclub hosted a range of performances--notably jazz. Today, our week-long series revisits this legendary New York "vanished venue." Later: Singer-songwriter Jesse Harris explores the theme of night on his new album. He performs selections live in the studio.
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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.
Chideya and team go to Florida to talk about the ways the American Dream is colliding with reality, and what it means in the voting booth. Chideya speaks with Colonel Allen West, a black Tea Party candidate; residents of a historic black community, where the land has been contaminated by ...
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.
Before CVS Pharmacy moved into the ground floor of Thompson and Bleecker in Greenwich Village, the Village Gate nightclub hosted a range of performances--notably jazz. Today, our week-long series revisits this legendary New York "vanished venue." Later: Singer-songwriter Jesse Harris explores the theme of night on his new album. He performs selections live in the studio.
For this New Sounds, mutant trumpter/composer Ben Neill joins John Schaefer in the studio. Lately, he’s been working together with filmmaker Bill Morrison and singer Mimi Goese on a staging of the Persephone myth – Demeter’s daughter taken by Hades to the underworld against her will. The multimedia music theatre work, which will be staged at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) next week, is informed by rock, layered with electronica and silent film projections, and is reimagined as a 19th century theatre troupe’s "antidote to irony." We’ll hear songs from Persephone and catch up with Ben Neill.
