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If the battle for the presidency comes down to how the West is won, New Mexico's large Hispanic and Latino electorate could tip the vote...
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October 10th, 2008 at 8:44 am
How does a congregation deal when their beloved pastor is terminally ill? See this piece about perhaps this country’s best known Unitarian-Universalist minister, Reverend Forrest Church of New York. Watch. (Originally aired: 10/3/08).
October 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Fall for Dance is a wildly successful annual festival at New York City Center featuring $10 tickets and an amazing range of dance companies, 28 total. Read more…
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
We interviewed a number of novice teachers, and asked them to recount the realities of a special education classroom. Below is a glimpse into the Teaching Fellows program and the problems with the program’s crash-course training.
New York Voices
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Recent bankruptcies and buy-outs of America’s largest and oldest financial institutions including Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG have affected tens of thousands of New Yorkers – on and off Wall Street. Thirteen/WNET’s award-winning public affairs series NEW YORK VOICES examines how the downfall of these major financial powerhouses will affect the city’s economy. The special also takes a personal look at the hardships in Queens, where the subprime mortgage crisis hit hardest in the city.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Upcoming documentary The Bungalows of Rockaway, delves into the rich history of the bungalows on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, NY, over the past 100 years. Co-producers Jennifer …
September 26th, 2008 at 9:34 am
The Lure of the Program Meets the Reality of the Classroom
“You remember your first-grade teacher’s name. Who will remember yours?” asks The New York City Teaching Fellows site ad for their alternative teacher certification program.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Across NYC today, parking spaces will be filled by mini-parks, a project of national ‘Parking Day’, to highlight awareness of how we use public spaces in cities, which started in …
September 10th, 2008 at 7:25 am
In 1973, Local Thirteen program The 51st State aired this video ode to the World Trade Center in honor of its grand opening. It’s abstract and a little strange; stranger still today. Read more about The 51st State and this segment.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
From King Kong climbing the Empire State Building to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man lumbering through Columbus Circle, New York has been the setting for some of the most recognizable moments on film. Join filmmaker and author James Sanders for an illustrated lecture about the nexus between New York City filmmaking and New York City planning.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:00 am
Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, SundayArts blogger Susan Yung stepped over a dead baby bird on Prince Street, and then some oily treacle running down the Bowery. It was a suitable overture to the show, which “surveys a landscape… darkened by uncertain catastrophe.” Read more…
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In this profile, Neal Shapiro, president of Thirteen/WNET, interviews Ellen Futter, the president of the American Museum of Natural History.
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Selected press items featuring WNET.org, its programs, projects and services from the period Friday, October 3 through Thursday, October 9.
A group of WNET executives were...
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