This spring has seen the passing of two giants in the history of WNET. John Jay Iselin and James Day were collectively crucial to the development of WNET from the 1950s through the 1980s. Both former presidents of WNET, they helped define the development of public television into the medium it is today.
May 1, 2008, screenwriter, director and producer Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) made an appearance at the Apple Store Soho, discussing his new movie Mister Lonely, his love …
Christie’s International has put one of Andy Warhol’s famous paintings of Mao Zedong on sale for $120 million. The sale would look to set a record for an …
Parking on the street is one of the least pleasant aspects of living in New York, and it’s not even a fair sport: 142,000 drivers with special permits can occupy parking spaces where most of us would get a ticket. Recently, the city started a major initiative to cut back on parking permits, but will it solve the problem? Watch the story.
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 …
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 …
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. George Steinbrenner, Walter O’Malley, Patrick Ewing, and Roger Clemens inspire many a heated debate on the back page of the paper or at the end of the bar.
Narrated by Vincent Pastore (’Big Pussy’ from The Sopranos!), this great episode of New York Voices (aired June 2003) delved into the paragons and pariahs of New York sports.
With Earth Day upon us, we took a look back through the archives and found this episode of Bill Moyers Journal from 1973 that looked at the resistance to …
“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, …
