In 1997, the City of New York made a formal agreement with the Upstate communities from which it gets its water. How well has the agreement held up, and is NYC’s water supply in jeopardy? See forum lecture here.

Whitman, America’s poet, was born on this day in 1819. See a few programs that have aired on PBS in the past, watchable online.

This particularly good Bill Moyers Essay examines why so many of our public servants in the highest levels of the Bush Administration have resigned or been forced to resign in the last few years. Watch the entire segment or read the transcript here….

Jennifer 8. Lee is a New York Times reporter, blogger and author best known for her writing about technology, immigrants and contemporary culture. She talks about how a lot of food that we think of as ‘Chinese’ is actually thoroughly American in origin.
Lee’s first book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles — which quickly climbed to [...]

Operatic bass Hao Jiang Tian reminisces about and performs the songs that highlight his tumultuous journey from the Cultural Revolution to the Metropolitan Opera. See video…

A member of the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur was shot and killed in a refugee camp outside the North Darfur capital El Fasher. The unarmed Ugandan police officer, John Kennedy Okecha, is the first international peacekeeper to be killed since the joint mission took over from an African Union mission in December. Read more…

Last week, you voted on three films that capture the evolving character of New York City–one on an old luncheonette, another a poetic ode to mass, a third on a Brooklyn spoken-word group. But we can only air one this Saturday night on Reel 13. So which did you choose?

Read about the animals, plants, and insects that are being recruited by a special breed of forensic scientists to solve the most seemingly impenetrable of crimes. Explore the fascinating world of wildlife-related forensics.

In the singing biz, they talk about money notes — the notes a singer hits that make your spine tingle, the ones that often get a singer hired in the first place. Are the first “money notes” you think of high notes? They’re pretty hard to ignore, but let’s talk for a moment about rich, [...]

Brown shares his experience so far in working as part of the Wide Angle team, and calls for not just feedback, but to be informed as to YOUR expectations for the series…what you want to see, how you want to see the stories presented. See Wide Angle….