It seems the next big thing this week is controversial art (See Brooklyn Museum, Art). Wasn't that the last big thing? And the thing before that? We propose term limits for the next big thing, but we'll make an exception for ... Bill and Monica! This week, we invite you to listen in on a visit to a wax museum in Harlem -- near where Bill Clinton hopes to open his office. And those conversations with Monica Lewinsky secretly taped by Linda Tripp? Remember what good theater that made? Well, someone took that idea literally. You'll hear it on The Next Big Thing.

What's the Next Big Thing?
World Yo-Yo Champion Larry Sayco
Shahara Oliver of Harlem Homes Realty
Jacques Desbois, CEO of the Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada

Science for the everyday man
You know, like, you can't find your hat and your wearing it? Next Big Thing contributors Mark O'Donnell and David Rakoff unfold the genome map.

Holding out at The Hudson
The residents of the former SRO known as the Henry Hudson Hotel say more than the name has changed. A tale of two cities - under one roof. Annie Cheney reports.

In the still of the night
Actually... it was in the morning on the F Train. Music to miss your stop by.

"Snatches"
As they used to say on "Dragnet," the following is a true story ... but the names have not been changed to protect the innocent. It's a two-woman play culled from real conversations between Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky. Laura Strausfeld turned the transcripts into a play. Produced by Curtis Fox.

Who wants to be a bus driver?
Test your trivia on the M20 with your host, Tony Palombella. Produced by Emily Botein.

While we're on the subject of buses...
A story by one of our favorites, Sarah Thyre, who writes to reconcile her hillbilly upbringing with her current life in New York.

My name is Raven Chanticleer.
A visit to the African-American Wax and History Museum of Harlem. Among other curiosities, meet the material girl in blackface with host Dean Olsher.

"Blue Candy"
Somebody once said Carl Hancock Rux -- poet, musician, playwright -- has a voice that feels like a wide tree trunk. A Next Big Thing rendering of a poem about the nature of memory.

Down at the Fulton
Make that UP at Hunt's Point. Word is the city's moving the Fulton Fish Market to the Bronx. Visit what could vanish ... without waking up at 4 a.m.

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