Runway Painters & Star Shepherds: Unsung Heroes of Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week, which kicked off Thursday, generates more than $400 million and draws roughly 230,000, including fashion elite, style mavens and A-list celebrities. But it also temporarily...
View ArticlePainting New York's Skyline
Painter Thomas Hemmerick is slathering a coat of black paint on a segment of a four-story Adidas advertisement in SoHo. He's standing on scaffolding 150 feet above the ground. "I've seen amazing...
View ArticleNYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's Wall Street Forecast
New York State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli discusses his Wall Street forecast, and the role that the financial sector plays in the local economy.→ Add Your Comments, Listen, and Read a Recap at It's A...
View ArticleThe Rise of Dave Grohl; Wall In-Studio
In this episode: In just over a year’s time, Dave Grohl has won five Grammys for his latest Foo Fighters album, released the documentary Sound City, reunited the other surviving members of Nirvana to...
View ArticleWall Of Steel Rising Between A Train and Jamaica Bay
It's official: New York is Holland now. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is building a wall to keep out the sea along a two-mile stretch of the A line on its way to the Rockaways. The wall is...
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Subway Sea Wall Of Steel Rising Between A Train And Jamaica Bay
Pile driver installs a section of steel wall between A train tracks in the foreground and Jamaica Bay behind. (photo by Jim O'Grady)(New York, NY - WNYC) New York is Holland now: the NY Metropolitan...
View ArticleSoundcheck Writers Club: Crime Novelist Ian Rankin's Pick Three
Soundcheck Writers Club is a week-long series showcasing some of our favorite interviews with novelists and writers who are inspired by music, and musicians who are inspired by literature. In this...
View ArticleDomestic Violins
Produced at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Beyond Radio conference, featuring performances by Amie McKenna, Michele Durman, Michael Whalley, and Martin Dingle Wall. Produced by Ed...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: Wolfie is My Safe Word Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss "The Wolf of Wall Street," the BBC's "Call the Midwife Christmas Special," and Britney Spears' Vegas comeback.
View ArticleNick Paumgarten on the financial crisis
Nick Paumgarten on understanding the financial crisis.
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, “Beyoncé’s Cafeteria” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Occupy Wall Street, Beyoncé’s dance plagiarism, and the films of Pedro Almodóvar.
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Explain It To Me Like I’m a Golden Retriever...
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner review the new Wall Street drama Margin Call and Showtime’s new series Homeland. For their final segment,...
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Domestic Violins
Produced at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Beyond Radio conference, featuring performances by Amie McKenna, Michele Durman, Michael Whalley, and Martin Dingle Wall. Produced by Ed...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: Wolfie is My Safe Word Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss "The Wolf of Wall Street," the BBC's "Call the Midwife Christmas Special," and Britney Spears' Vegas comeback.
View ArticleThis Folk Opera Predicted the Biggest Themes of the 2016 Election
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Ten years before there was Donald Trump declaring he'll build walls, Vermont-based folk singer Anaïs Mitchell was writing "Why We Build the...
View ArticleFixing Immigration Without Building a Bigger Wall
The New York Times "Economic Scene" columnist Eduardo Porter calls Donald Trump’s proposal to end illegal immigration “a fake solution,” since there’s currently a fence across large stretches of the...
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