The Midterm Takeaway
Join us for a special midterms FB Live! featuring some awesome speakers and recaps from our special series "SHElection!" and "DOWNBALLOT"
Eunbi Kim Presents It Feels Like...MOM
What does it mean to be a mom? Do moms really have super powers?
Being a mom is complicated…and having a mom is complicated too. In this interactive and intimate episode, host pianist Eunbi Kim and guests shower the audience with reflections ranging from the madcap to the mournful, and the familiar to the foreign. Kim performs the world premiere of Pauchi Sasaki’s Mother’s Hand, Healing Hand with violinist Lauren Cauley and cellist Wick Simmons. Later in the program, Kim is joined by guests including the zany musical comedy duo Slanty Eyed Mama, and violinist, author and mom Rebecca Fischer
Get Lit with All Of It: Jennifer Egan with Musical Guest Steve Earle
Get Lit with All Of It
Get Lit is back in The Greene Space! All of It host Alison Stewart continues her book club series IN PERSON with The Candy House by Jennifer Egan. Grammy-winner and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Steve Earle stops by for a musical performance.
Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery [Trailer]
🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨
What happened to a prominent couple killed in their New Jersey home? WNYC's Nancy Solomon takes us on a journey into the crazy world of Garden State crime and politics in Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery. Listen to the first episode today: https://link.chtbl.com/deadendpodcast?sid=facebook
Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery [Trailer]
🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨
A prominent couple dies. The investigation is a mess. Their son looks for the truth. Coming April 26, true crime meets political corruption in the Garden State. Subscribe today to Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery — https://bit.ly/38UUBr3
"Normal, you see" by Megan Valle
As part of our poetry month challenge, Megan Valle submitted "Normal, you see."
"Can you see it? Can you feel it?
The pulse of NYC is back
Or has it been lingering?
It's always been normal, you see...to us New Yorkers"
Our theme this year is "normalcy," whatever that means to you in this particular moment. Submit your poems by responding to this tweet or emailing us at [email protected] We may read your poem on the air!
Women Leading Locally
In partnership with the Center for American Women and Politics, The Takeaway presents Women Leading Locally, a Women's History Month special focused on highlighting women breaking barriers, holding office, and making change.
SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned
After the Hormel union strikes of the 1980s, a new immigrant workforce finds opportunity in SPAMtown, U.S.A. But soon …workers start getting sick.
Listen to the final episode of “SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned” from The Experiment podcast: https://bit.ly/33VHYtO
SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned
This week on The Experiment podcast: how a strike at the Hormel meatpacking plant pit brother against brother, captured the world’s attention, and tried to turn back an inevitable tide. Listen to part two of “SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned” today: https://bit.ly/33VHYtO
SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned
In producer Gabrielle Berbey’s Filipino-American household, canned SPAM is a beloved delicacy. But how did a meat product from the American heartland find its way into the hearts and cuisines of people across the Pacific? Listen to the first part of “SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned," a three-part miniseries from The Experiment podcast: https://bit.ly/33VHYtO
SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned
America, shall I compare thee to a can of SPAM? A new miniseries from The Experiment podcast tells a story of U.S. food, work and family through the history of the canned meat. Coming February 3. Listen to the trailer today: https://bit.ly/33VHYtO
Apple Podcasts Names The Experiment One of the Best Podcasts of 2021
Apple Podcasts has just named The Experiment one of the best podcasts of 2021. From WNYC Studios and The Atlantic, The Experiment looks at what happens when individual people confront deeply held American ideals in their own lives. Listen to it here: https://apple.co/podcastsbestof2021
WNYC reads 'The Raven'
ICYMI: In honor of Halloween, WNYC's Sean Carlson reads Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven' on All Of It With Alison Stewart
Click here to listen to the full reading:
🎧 https://www.wnyc.org/story/reading-raven 🎧
Get Lit with All of It: Lauren Groff
LIVE NOW: Our virtual book club series Get Lit with All Of It With Alison Stewart continues tonight with Lauren Groff’s latest novel, MATRIX. All of It host Alison Stewart and Groff will discuss the engrossing tale of female desire, passion, creativity, and power set in a medieval abbey, and the sisterly trio The Staves stop by for a musical performance.
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Get Lit with All of It: Jonathan Lee
LIVE NOW: Our virtual book club series Get Lit with All Of It With Alison Stewart continues tonight with Jonathan Lee’s The Great Mistake. All of It host Alison Stewart and the author will discuss the novel about a mysterious murder in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, and NYC’s own Claudi of the band Pinc Louds will share a couple of songs.
Long-Awaited Bike Lane Opens On Brooklyn Bridge
Gothamist's Jake Offenhartz took a ride on the long-awaited Brooklyn Bridge bike lane, now open to public. At just 8 feet wide, the new lane allows little room for error.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3lrvor0
"That day was a military assault on unarmed inmates": Three men remember the Attica Uprising
"That day was a military assault on unarmed inmates," a former inmate at Attica Correctional Facility tells WNYC's Joseph Gedeon. 50 years ago, prisoners took control of the state prison to demand humane treatment. Days later, 29 of them were dead.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3kgLuEB
The Takeaway presents "Muslim Girl" in America: 20 years after 9/11
“Muslim Girl” in America: 20 Years After 9/11, a Facebook Live conversation.
Amani, the founder of MuslimGirl.com, and activist, journalist and author Mona Eltahawy, join host Melissa Harris-Perry to talk about the cultural, social and political context Muslim women have faced for the last two decades.
How The NYPD Infiltrated A Muslim Charity In The Years After 9/11
“It came to the point where I was literally being followed by two cops, and I told myself it was in my head."
Soon after 9/11, NYPD informants and plainclothes officers were placed around the NYC area and beyond to monitor Muslim communities.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3DXKX1W
Blindspot: The Road to 9/11
Twenty years later, there’s still a sense that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks came out of nowhere. They didn’t. In the podcast Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 from HISTORY and WNYC Studios, reporter Jim O'Grady traces the long, strange wind-up to the attacks that remade the world — and the chances we had to stop them. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3kDN16C
Get Lit with All of It: Nghi Vo
LIVE NOW: Our virtual book club series Get Lit with All Of It With Alison Stewart continues tonight with Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful. All of It host Alison Stewart will discuss the novel, which puts a magical realism lens on The Great Gatsby, with the author and musical guest, pianist Emmet Cohen @heyemmet, will transport us back to the Jazz Age.
80-Pound Cougar Cub Removed From Bronx Apartment
"I’ve never seen a cougar in the wild, but I’ve seen them on leashes, smashed into cages, and crying for their mothers when breeders rip them away. I’ve also seen the heartbreak of owners," says Kelly Donithan of the Humane Society of the United States.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3ypW0wR
Here’s What A Ride On The Times Square Ferris Wheel Looks Like
Senator Schumer and Bronx Borough President Diaz Jr. rapping during NYC Homecoming Week