WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, ...
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From WNYC, New York Public Radio, join WNYC's cultural attaché Sara Fishko for her personal radio essays on music, art, culture and media.
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Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues and gives an in-depth look into stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
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Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich use state-of-the-art sound design, mind-bending story-telling, and a sense of humor to ask big questions and blur the boundaries between science, philosophy, and human experience. Radiolab is produced in New York at WNYC, and heard on over 300 public radio stations across the country.
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Daily highlights from The Takeaway, the national morning news program that delivers the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what's ahead. The Takeaway, along with the BBC World Service, The New York Times and WGBH Boston, invites listeners every morning to learn more and be part of the American conversation on-air and online at thetakeaway.org.
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CRAFTED. is a show about great products and the people who make them. Incredible founders, makers, and innovators reveal how they build game-changing products and companies — and how you can, too. Honored twice by the Webby Awards as a top tech podcast. Discover the future of product development, technology, and AI on CRAFTED. Hosted by Dan Blumberg, an entrepreneur, product leader, and former public radio host. Each episode of CRAFTED. brings you closer to the founders, innovators, and tech ...
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A podcast about how and why gentrification happens. Season 3, produced in partnership with WLRN, Miami’s public radio station, introduces us to “climate gentrification,” reporting about the ways climate change, and our adaption to it, may seriously intensify the affordable housing crisis in many cities. In many parts of the US, black communities were pushed to low-lying flood prone areas. As Nadege Green reports, in Miami, the opposite is true. Black communities were built on high elevation ...
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Our friends at Eater New York just published their list of the 'iconic pizzerias' in the five boroughs. The Editor of Eater New York, Melissa McCart joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to hit some of the highlights.
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This Week in Politics: New York politicians head to the DNC
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The Democratic National Convention will get underway next week in Chicago, and several prominent New York elected officials are heading there too. WNYC's Jon Campbell and Elizabeth Kim join Weekend Edition host David Furst for a preview. Jon covers Albany and Liz covers city government.
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The 20-building LeFrak City housing complex in Corona is home to thousands of working-class and middle-income tenants, offering access to a swimming pool and park inside a secure campus near malls, subway lines and Queens’ famous food scene. But since the start of 2023, the 4,605-unit development has also been the site of more evictions than anywhe…
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Governor Phil Murphy declined to say what he was thinking about his pick to replace Sen. Bob Menendez, but then his decision to send his former chief of staff to Washington appeared in other news outlets shortly after the show. "No news to make in terms of names, but that'll be, you know, it's getting now to the point where it will be any moment ov…
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Christopher Rountree Designs a Musical Framework for Electro-Chamber Players
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Christopher Rountree is probably best known as the conductor of the LA-based new music ensemble known as Wild Up. Over the last 14 years he and that band have played with Bjork, done live film scores to movie screenings, and embarked on a multiyear recording project of the long forgotten and now rediscovered music of Julius Eastman. But Christopher…
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Is It Cake or a Muffin? How to Position Your Product and Drive More Sales | April Dunford (bestselling author and advisor)
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April Dunford is an expert at product positioning. She’s advised hundreds of B2B companies on how they can make their products Obviously Awesome — that’s also the title of her bestselling book on positioning. On this episode of CRAFTED., April shares tips on how you can make your product standout and how you can drive more sales — that’s the focus …
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An estimated 8 million Americans will reach voting age by the November election. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk recently teamed up with the group YVote to hear from young people eligible to vote in a presidential race for the first time this year. In this segment, we hear from Brooklyn resident Sonja Aibel.…
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Bette Smith Marries Gospel Fervor With Soul Moxie, In-Studio
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Brooklyn native Bette Smith reconnects with her Memphis and Mississippi roots on her latest, "Goodthing", full of songs that show off her voice -rich and raspy- and her band’s vintage soul and blues-rock sound. But the album also speaks to Smith’s spiritual side, embracing the gospel music she heard in church and around the house every weekend – li…
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As the Olympics wind down, we salute the athletes who represented us from New York and New Jersey
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The Olympics closing ceremony is almost upon us. It's been a fun summer, and as you've been hearing on WNYC, we've been especially interested in all of the New Yorkers and New Jerseyans who represented us in Paris. Sports reporter Priya Desai joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about our hometown heroes.…
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Where to get great Thai food in Elmhurst, Queens
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In this day and age, you can get Thai Food in most New York City neighborhoods. But many of the city's most beloved Thai spots can be found in Elhurst, Queens. Bangkok Supper Club co-owner Max Jermsurawong, 55 Hospitality's Chat Suansilphong and food writer Farideh Sadigen spoke with WNYC's Tiffany Hanssen to discuss the Thai food they tried togeth…
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When “Cats” left Broadway in 2000 after an 18-year run, many New York City theatergoers breathed a sigh of relief. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and international sensation, which existed in an uncanny valley of feline behavior, garnered equal amounts of praise and ridicule. But now the production is back, and bigger than ever.…
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Repairs to East River tunnels, ongoing work at Grand Central Madison and a tough lesson on the importance of the subways are featured in this week's On The Way roundup of New York City transit news.
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LA LOM Reflects the Diverse Musical Diaspora of Angelenos
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The band called LA LOM is a trio of LA natives who play an instrumental blend of twangy guitar melodies over Latin rhythms like the cumbia and bolero, drawing on the sounds of their city. The band got their start as a hotel band playing soul covers, and morphed into warm, vibe-heavy rock that blends Mexican, Cuban, and Peruvian traditions alongside…
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The piles of trash bags on New York City’s sidewalks are slated to disappear in the coming years thanks to Mayor Eric Adams' push to force property owners to put out their garbage in securely lidded bins. But there's hardly any room for bins on a block of East 10th Street whose bustling sidewalks are packed with row houses and restaurants. And with…
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Community and perseverance in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood
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WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk regularly teams up with the nonprofit, Street Lab, to highlight stories from neighborhoods across New York City. We recently set up shop at Myrtle Avenue Plaza in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood. Here's some of what we heard. The transcript of the voices we collected have been lightly edited for clarity. Sum…
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Families with young children are increasingly grappling with whether to leave the five boroughs in search of more affordable child care and housing. The exodus of families from the Big Apple worsened after the pandemic, but is reaching a fever pitch as housing costs increase and the cost of child care continues to rise, becoming a focal point among…
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Ticks are spreading into new sections of New York City, bringing diseases with them as they infest parks, Columbia University researchers say.
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A new agreement means "open skies" between the Dominican Republic and the United States
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Dominican New Yorkers are the largest Latino ethnic group in New York City, meaning thousands of people fly from New York City to Santo Domingo, the country's capital, each year. For those flyers, airplane tickets may be getting a little bit cheaper thanks to a new federal agreement. U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat is the first Dominican New …
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Mayor issues an order allowing restrictive measures, which the City Council describes as solitary confinement, at Rikers
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Over the weekend Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency in New York City jails. At the same time he issued an unusual executive order that allows city correction officers to continue using restrictive measures … which City Council describes as solitary confinement … on detainees at Rikers Island jails. The ban on solitary confinement was su…
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How Media Is Made Today: AI and a Modern CMS | Matt Monahan, President, Arc XP, The Washington Post
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Making media is hard. Distributing it to the right audience even more so. GenAI can help. Matt Monahan is the president of Arc XP at the Washington Post. On this episode, we're digging into the core technology of any media company: the content management system (CMS), why they’re so hard to build right and how new GenAI tools can reduce the toil re…
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NYPD Data shows most city shootings are contained to the same small areas, year after year. Just 4% of New York City’s 120,000 blocks account for nearly all of the city’s shootings, according to the data.
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Angélica Garcia Delivers Borderless Clublike Bangers, In-Studio
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Angélica Garcia has been on a journey – a musical journey – from “gothic storytelling, and swampy, blues-inflected rock” (Schaefer, 2016) to dance-floor Latin pop bangers with moody electronics, sung mostly in Spanish on her latest release, Gemelo. It’s a record that “untangles the Mexican and Salvadoran roots of the Californian-born artist, disman…
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Some major news stories this summer mean that the political landscape is shifting, and now with less than 100 days until the election, voters in our area have a lot to consider. As part of our election coverage, WNYC is using some laundromats across the New York metro area to find out what's on people's minds as they prepare to cast their ballots i…
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It's getting harder and harder to grab a booth and some late night disco fries in New York City. Just last weekend, the Neptune diner in Astoria, Queens closed to make way for a new housing development. That's another in a long line of the city's landmark diners to close their doors -- a trend that only accelerated with the Covid pandemic. For near…
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