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How to Give the Gift of Food

All Of It - May 16, 2024 18:19 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Food is a necessity, but when it’s made by someone who loves you, it can be a real gift. So if you love making and receiving gifts of food, or if food is your love language, you may want to whip something together to tell someone you are thinking about them. For this week’s installment of our “F...

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Nick Offerman and Helen Rebanks Reflect on Farm Life in Pastoral England

All Of It - May 16, 2024 18:19 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Helen Rebanks' new memoir, The Farmer's Wife, discusses modern day life on her farm in pastoral England. She shares the life with her husband, four children and animals. Her sustainable lifestyle has inspired many, including actor and comedian Nick Offerman, who has worked as a farmhand for her....

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Colm Tóibín Continues 'Brooklyn' Saga with 'Long Island'

All Of It - May 16, 2024 18:19 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Celebrated author Colm Tóibín picks up the story of Eilis Lacey years after we last left her in Brooklyn. In the new novel, Long Island, Eilis's life with her husband Tony is disrupted when a man claims that Tony is having an affair with his wife, and that the woman is having his child. Tóibín j...

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Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin, and Rebecca Frecknall on Bringing 'Cabaret' Back to Broadway

All Of It - May 16, 2024 18:19 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
The classic musical "Cabaret" is back on Broadway, this time transforming a theater into an immersive Kit Kat Klub experience. Tony nominated stars Eddie Redmayne (the emcee) and Gayle Rankin (Sally Bowles) join us alongside director Rebecca Frecknall to discuss the production, which has been no...

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How Artist Bony Ramirez Spent a Year Immersed in The Newark Museum of Art

All Of It - May 15, 2024 18:36 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
When he was a child, artist Bony Ramirez moved from his native Dominican Republic to New Jersey. The first museum he ever visited in his new home was The Newark Museum of Art. After working for years in construction while also painting in his mother's kitchen, Ramirez is now a full-time self-tau...

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A Story Told Through the Perspective of Two Imaginative Kids

All Of It - May 15, 2024 18:36 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Set in the early 1990s, a new film follows two imaginative 10-year-old boys, Malik and Eric, who live in the Cabrini-Green housing complex. It's titled, "We Grown Now." Director Minhal Baig joins us to discuss the film alongside actress and executive producer Jurnee Smollett who stars as Malik's...

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Kara Jackson on 'Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?' (Listening Party)

All Of It - May 15, 2024 18:36 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Kara Jackson is a former National Youth Poet Laureate who last year released her debut album, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?, to critical acclaim. Jackson combines acoustic folk-style guitars with unsurprisingly poetic lyrics. Ahead of her shows at Public Records in Brooklyn tonight ...

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A New Banksy Museum Opens in Lower Manhattan

All Of It - May 15, 2024 18:35 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
A new exhibition opens today features an exhaustive collection of work from the prolific—yet mysterious street artist, Banksy. We speak to the director of “The Banksy Museum,” William Meade.

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John Green and Director Hannah Marks Adapt 'Turtles All the Way Down'

All Of It - May 14, 2024 18:54 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Bestselling author John Green's novel about a teenager struggling with OCD, Turtles All the Way Down, has now been adapted into a Max original film. Green and director Hannah Marks join us to discuss bringing Green's novel to life. You can stream "Turtles All the Way Down" now on Max. This epis...

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'Dark Matter' Series Adapted from Blake Crouch Novel

All Of It - May 14, 2024 18:54 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
A new TV series is based on author Blake Crouch's bestselling novel, Dark Matter. It stars Joel Edgerton as a scientist who is abducted and dropped into another version of his life. Crouch is the series' showrunner and Matt Tolmach serves as EP. They both join to discuss. This episode is guest-...

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A Brash New Comedy About Friendship and Motherhood

All Of It - May 14, 2024 18:53 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
The new comedy, "Babes,"  stars Ilana Glazer (who also co-wrote the movie) and Michelle Buteau as childhood best friends. When Glazer's character becomes pregnant from a one-night stand and decides to keep it, she seeks solace--and guidance--from her best friend, a mother of two. It's the featur...

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The Murky Future of TikTok

All Of It - May 14, 2024 18:53 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Last month President Biden signed a bill into law that would ban the popular Chinese app TikTok from the United States unless it is sold, citing national security concerns. What implications could the move have for creators, and for free speech? Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times reporter covering...

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Poems From Your Neighborhoods

All Of It - May 13, 2024 18:12 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Over the course of April, which is Poetry Month, WNYC producers have been asking our audience to submit their own poems about the places that are important to them, and what’s happening there. We talk about the project, and hear some poems read by the poets themselves along with Amanda Rozon, as...

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Is There Really A Difference Between 'Good' and 'Instant' Coffee?

All Of It - May 13, 2024 18:11 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Some people swear by gourmet coffees and boutique roasts. Others say all coffee is good, as long as it perks you up. Novelist and non-fiction writer Peter C. Baker, whose recent piece in the New York Times Magazine is called "The Case Against ‘Good’ Coffee: Instant coffee tastes … just OK. And t...

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How Psychedelics Could Change Mental Health Treatment (Mental Health Mondays)

All Of It - May 13, 2024 18:11 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
When New York Times correspondent Ernesto Londoño was struggling with depression, he found relief from a surprising source: ayahuasca. Psychedelics are on the rise as a way to treat mental health conditions, but like any drug, they come with side effects and potential problems. We discuss Ernest...

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'The Wiz' Revival Eases on Down to WNYC

All Of It - May 13, 2024 18:11 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Right now, "The Wiz" is undergoing a revival on Broadway. The show, a musical spinoff of "The Wizard of Oz," first opened in 1975, but the story really became a beloved staple in homes around the country when Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor starred in the 1978 movie adaptation. Wi...

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'The Fall Guy' Stunt Designer Chris O'Hara

All Of It - May 10, 2024 19:36 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
The new Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt rom-com "The Fall Guy" is all about a stuntman. We speak with Chris O'Hara, the stunt designer for the film, about his work on the project and his career as a stuntman and stunt designer. 

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MoMA Surveys Artist-Activist LaToya Ruby Frazier

All Of It - May 10, 2024 19:36 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Opening this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art is the first wholistic survey of artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier, who was just named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Frazier was born in the industrial down of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and travels to working c...

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Mother's Day Weekend Plans

All Of It - May 10, 2024 19:36 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
It's Mother's Day Weekend! We talk about some of the things happening around the city such as the African Film Festival, the Tony-nominated musical Stereophonic, and the Kelly Reichardt career retrospective at the Metrograph. Listeners also share their recommendations for activities and events t...

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Last Chance to Submit to the 2024 Public Song Project!

All Of It - May 10, 2024 19:36 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
The final day to send a song into the Public Song Project is this Sunday, May 12! Producers Simon Close and Zach Gottehrer-Cohen explain how to submit, talk about how to think about adapting old works, and why this particular branch of intellectual property law is actually super exciting.

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Building Consistently

In the Sauce - May 09, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Jessica Bernheim is the Head of Marketing and Strategy at Daring Foods. On this episode of ITS, Jess walks Ali through an often-used, yet misunderstood concept: brand strategy. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support In The Sauce by becoming a member! ...

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New York's Underground Art Museum

All Of It - May 09, 2024 18:33 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Over the past four decades, hundreds of permanent artworks have been installed across New York City's transit system. The new book, Contemporary Art Underground: New York MTA Arts & Design, highlights more than a hundred recent installations that span the five boroughs. Co-authors Sandra Bloodwo...

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The Creative Team Behind the Tony Nominated Musical 'Illinoise'

All Of It - May 09, 2024 18:31 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 19TH, 2024] "Illinoise"  is a new dance adaptation of the seminal Sufjan Stevens album, with a story by Tony-winning choreographer Justin Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury. Drury and Peck, who also directed and choreographed the production, ...

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Director Kelly Reichardt on Her 30 Year Career Film Retrospective

All Of It - May 09, 2024 18:29 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has spent 30 years making films about everyday people set in the Pacific Northwest. A new retrospective at the Metrograph celebrates all eight of her films in the series American Landscapes: The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt. She joins us to discuss the retrospective and he...

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'Sweet Treats:' A New Cookbook from Mel Asseraf

All Of It - May 09, 2024 18:25 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
Mel Asseraf knew at an early age that baking was her passion. A graduate of culinary school, she's also a trained pastry chef who studied under established chefs in Paris and has been a winner of the show "Chopped" twice. Her first cookbook contains 100 recipes made with just 10 ingredients. It'...

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A Breakdown of the Drake and Kendrick Lamar Beef

All Of It - May 08, 2024 18:46 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
In the last few weeks, hip-hop fans have been following Drake and Kendrick Lamar in a beef for the ages. Vulture critic Craig Jenkins helps us understand where the feud between the two began and share some of the highlights from the diss tracks.

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Pulitzer-Winning Play, ‘Primary Trust’

All Of It - May 08, 2024 18:44 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
The 2023 Pulitzer-winning play from Eboni Booth tells the story of a bookstore worker named Kenneth who is forced to face everything he's been avoiding when he is laid off from his job.  William Jackson Harper, who stars in "Primary Trust" as Kenneth, discusses the play, alongside Booth.

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Wedding Music: Everybody On The Dance Floor

All Of It - May 08, 2024 18:43 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
When couples plan a celebration, one of the key decisions they have to make is about what songs to play to get people to dance. DJ Karin Fjellman has guided couples from the first dance to the final song of the evening. She discusses what works, and what songs you might want to avoid.

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'Stereophonic' Brings a Fictional Band to Life Onstage

All Of It - May 08, 2024 18:41 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
The new play "Stereophonic" recently became the most Tony Award-nominated play ever, receiving 13 nominations. It follows the story of a band recording a new album as their relationships with one another begin to fracture. We're joined by playwright David Adjmi, director Daniel Aukin, and compos...

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A Preview of the 2024 New York African Film Festival

All Of It - May 07, 2024 18:37 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 435 ratings
The theme for the 31st edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) is “Convergence of Time." This year's slate includes 50+ films from more than 25 countries, including titles such as "Over the Bridge," "Fight Like a Girl," and "The Rhythm and The Blues." NYAFF founder Mahen Bonetti pr...