A conversation with Sen. Raymond Lesniak, Democrat from the 20th District. Elected to the Assembly in 1977 and to the State Senate in 1983, Lesniak served as State Democratic Chairman from 1992 to 1994. He has long been known as one of New Jersey’s major power brokers, and he’s one of the few Democratic leaders [...]
Historian Gurewitsch recounts harrowing and inspiring stories of resistance and rebellion in the camps, taken from her compendium of oral histories, Mothers, Sisters, Resistors. Her talk is as part of this panel on women’s roles during the Holocaust.
Can exercises make you smarter? Can exercising make your brain more fit as well? The New York Times recently reported that a University of Michigan study showed that memory training exercises can increase intelligence.
Isiah Thomas is just one of a long line of New York sports characters who have fallen on both sides of the hero/villain divide. This great episode of New York Voices from June 2003 delved into the paragons and pariahs of New York sports. Narrated by Vincent Pastore from the Sopranos.
With Earth Day upon us, we took a look back through the archives and found this episode of Bill Moyers Journal from 1973. In it, he looked at the resistance to population growth in Oregon, and the nation’s first bottle bill in that same state, which was enacted in 1971.
“All of Andy’s work addresses this poetic sensibility and empathy he has with nature,” says Financial Times art critic Claire Henry, “[He] can take what is under our feet and use it to focus our thoughts on the great ephemerality of life.” In this episode of EGG, Andy Goldsworthy shares his frustrations with the precarious nature of his sculptures.
Do environmentalists utilize a politics of fear? Do progressive politics appeal to hopes and desires, or to nightmares? n+1 contributors Meghan Falvey, Alex Gourevitch, Mark Greif and Chad Harbach debate, as Benjamin Kunkel (co-founder of n+1) moderates. This event was presented on October 30, 2007 by the New York Public Library, with n+1, a [...]
An interview with Rep. Robert Andrews who against the wishes of the party establishment has announced his intention to challenge Sen. Frank Lautenberg as the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Congressman Andrews has served in the House of Representatives since 1990 and is promising to bring new vigor to the Washington, D.C. [...]
In the early days of public television, the medium was dominated by lectures given by instructors in front of plain backgrounds. One of the programs to break out of that mold was performer and historian Max Morath’s “The Ragtime Era” which was pioneering in its use of sets, costumes and make-up.
In this recently unearthed 1960 [...]
The word “nightlife” usually conjures images of dancing, drinking and genial debauchery, but here it’s all about the darker side of the night. Thirteen’s 51st State looked into nighttime in New York City in this amazing snapshot of our city in the ’70s. Not for the faint of heart, they follow a runaway (homeless, [...]
