Guilty Pleasure Television, Art House Cinema, the Secret to Productivity

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 4, 2016

Does reality television exploit or empower women? Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Timothy Egan talks about the incredible life of Irish-American hero Thomas Francis Meagher. Metrograph at Ludlow and Canal Street is a new two-screen independent art house cinema which will play both 35 millimeter and digital films. Why some companies are more productive than others, and how this applies to your workplace.

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