Arts and Ideas
Stop-Loss, Bell Labs, Burke
Studio 360
Airs Saturdays at 10AM on 93.9 FM and Sundays at 7PM on AM 820
Filmmaker Kimberly Peirce talks about taking inspiration from soldiers’ videos, shot in Iraq and posted to YouTube. Her movie “Stop-Loss” is just out on DVD. We’ll also hear about the legendary scientific lab in New Jersey that invented nearly everything. Plus, soul singer Solomon Burke masters country music.
The Unthinkable
The Leonard Lopate Show
Airs weekdays at noon
Ever wonder whether you would survive a disaster? Amanda Ripley discusses how science and real-life stories can help you answer that question. Also, Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher thriller. And Guillaume Canet on adapting Harlan Coben’s novel for the silver screen. Plus, an epidemiologist who believes that the billions spent on preventing AIDS isn’t going to the people who need it most.
WNYC Broadcasts from New Studios
June 17, 2008
WNYC Radio broadcast live for the first time from its new studios at 160 Varick Street, joined by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
R. Stevie Moore
Spinning On Air
Airs Sunday at 7PM on 93.9 FM
Called "The Godfather of Home Taping," R. Stevie Moore has created, recorded, and distributed hundreds of his idiosyncratic songs and albums since the 1960s. Moore rarely performs outside his bedroom recording studio, but he brings his unique style to the WNYC Studio.
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Food and fairy tales
Selected Shorts
Airs Saturday and Sunday at 4PM on AM 820
Three celebrations of food, and a fairy tale. Award-winning actress Stockard Channing adds her elegant, smoky voice to a classic Grimm’s fairy tale, “The Old Woman in the Wood,” as the program’s opener. Also, works by Calvin Trillin, Molly Giles and Laurie Colwin.
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Lalo Schifrin
The Fishko Files
A new book by composer Lalo Schifrin is called “Mission Impossible” – after Schifrin’s famous TV theme. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, Schifrin’s musical life has been rich with possibilities. Here is the next Fishko Files…
Chris & Don: A Love Story
by Soterios Johnson
June 11, 2008
A new film sheds light a long-term love affair between the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the American painter Don Bachardy. The documentary is called Chris & Don: A Love Story. It premiered here as part of the NewFest, New York’s LGBT Film festival, which is underway now.
Remembering Columbia, 1968
by Dorian Merina
April 27, 2008
This week marked the 40th Anniversary of the student protests at Columbia University. Dorian Merina spoke with some of those who took part in the protests and filed this report.
Colombian Author is Also Food Market "Delivery Guy"
by Kathleen Horan
April 23, 2008
The city sponsored Immigrant Heritage Week last week but really in New York it's possible to mark the immigrant experience and its effect every day. Writer Joaquin Botero is originally from Colombia. His book "El Jardin en Chelsea" describes working at the Garden of Eden food market on 23rd Street.
Tribeca Film Festival Opens
by Soterios Johnson
April 22, 2008
The Tribeca Film Festival gets underway tomorrow. This year, its hosting 120 features selected from over two thousand submissions from 41 countries. Bilge Ebiri covers film for New York Magazine.
He came by the studio to discuss this year's offerings.
See trailers and find out more on WNYC's film blog
Celebrating Philip Roth’s 75th Birthday
Listen On Demand
Friends and colleagues of novelist Philip Roth marked his 75th birthday on Friday, Aprill 11, with a tribute before a capacity crowd at Columbia University's Miller Theater.
Listen to the event online, or download it for your MP3 player.
(So-Called) Life
Radio Lab
Airs Thursday at 3PM on 93.9 FM
What are the consequences when humans start playing with life? The human imagination has always dreamed up fantastic creatures, but now biotechnology is making it easier and easier for us to actually create forms of life that have never existed before.
Firecracker vs Confetti Tubes
Lunar New Year
Watch our movie to see how these tubes match up against firecrackers when it comes to celebrating the traditions of Lunar New Year. Plus Winnie Yang, editor for “Slow Food,” explains why noodles are forever. Explore the music, food, culture and spirituality of New York's Asian communities through our Lunar New Year Blog and New Moon Rises musical festival.
Blog: Lunar New Year
Video: Firecracker vs Confetti Tube
New Moon Rises Music Festival on WNYC
Map: Lunar New Year Events
Strange Genius:
Tesla + New York
Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City in 1884 with four cents in his pocket and went on to become one of the most revolutionary and controversial scientists of the age. A new book offers a fictional account of his last days and an interactive map explores Tesla’s life in the city during his years of discovery.
Tesla Map
Studio 360: Tesla's New York
Blog: Tesla Author Samantha Hunt
Book excerpt The Invention of Everything Else
Video: Men + Pigeons
Podcast: Get the complete Tesla narrative
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