A Dog Day Afternoon, a blog post, an mp3 file, and AI … What an intriguing exploration.
To me, AI is at the same time wonderfully promising and dreadfully frightening …
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She snatched an audience member’s cell phone. She’s the fabulous Patti LuPone.
Jacob grinned from ear to ear during the taxi ride back to the hotel—and for the next several …
Listen to an extraordinary performance of Handel’s Messiah from Trinity Church, Wall Street NYC.
New York City’s Trinity Church and Handel’s Messiah have a long, long relationship dating back to 1770 when the historic church …
Radio horror shows and Halloween are great partners; add Vincent Price and Ida Lupino, and you have gold.
Lucille Fletcher, one of the twentieth century’s scriptwriters, wrote several episodes of the radio series, Suspense. Her most famous is “Sorry, …
Tonight: Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala. You can listen in thanks to their partnership with WQXR.
Carnegie Hall and WQXR have united for the 12th season to present Carnegie Hall Live, a series of acclaimed broadcast concerts. Tonight’s opening night gala …
Never forget. Listen to the magnitude of our 9/ll loss, hour by tragic hour. 1010 WINS Archive.
This weekend marks the 21st anniversary of September 11, 2001—a miserable day that forever changed America. Today, as part of …
Listen and learn how a Baltimore public radio station navigated the pandemic.
Photo above: Aaron Henkin / WYPR From Aaron Henkin and Jamyla Krempel: When Maryland went into lockdown at the onset …
Creepy. Crawley. Cursed. From CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, E.G. Marshall narrates Black Widow.
It’s no secret—spiders aren’t on my list of cool critters. I know spiders do good things and are a necessary …
A Halloween treat: Cary Grant stars in an intense episode of Suspense—On A Country Road.
Suspense was a radio drama series broadcast on CBS from 1940 through 1962. It was one of the premier drama programs of radio’s golden age, and …
Happy days are here again! Macy’s July 4th Fireworks celebration returns to NYC for 2021.
Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks first burst over the New York City skyline with a special U.S. bicentennial show in 1976. …
Marilyn Maye. Streaming a new concert from Feinstein’s/54 Below. Meet her; get your tickets.
Long before sunrise on a Sunday morning 50-some years ago, I walked into the music library at KARD FM in …
50 years ago, I dug deep into my piggy bank and took my best friend to see Ella Fitzgerald.
A dear friend called one evening 50 years ago to let me know he was coming to New York to …
A good tune makes our days in isolation more bearable. Tonight, I’m remembering Harry Nilsson.
I love working from home, and I have a great WFH space. Yet oddly, from time to time over the …
Asked about Naples, Florida on a ’70s TV talk show I said, “It’s like a giant Valium.”
I was working for Norman Lear at Tandem-TAT Productions. Mahlon thought I might …
Happy 40th birthday to NPR’s Morning Edition. We came close to never hearing the show.
Above, original staff member, Jay Kernis edits tape for Morning Edition in the late 1970s. George Geesey/NPR When I received an …
On revisiting a 52-year-old newspaper clipping, my first job in radio, and an argyle sweater.
Time flies; memories are rich.
Miracle on 34th Street; versions differ. Screen Directors Playhouse gives insight into Santa’s motives.
It’s always seemed odd to me that Santa Claus—Kris Kringle, in the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street—lifted his cane …
“Fake News” ruled the airwaves on the night of October 30, 1938. Here’s a recording of the broadcast.
The War of the Worlds, the 17th episode of the radio drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, was performed …
You love New York City? You’ll love Tom Meyers and Greg Young, the Bowery Boys, and their podcast.
When I was in school, history was one of my two least favorite subjects. I’ve come to the conclusion that …
A Thanksgiving Tradition: Based on an actual event from 1965, Arlo Gutherie’s Alice’s Restaurant
According to Wikipedia,”Alice’s Restaurant was first performed publicly with Guthrie singing live on Radio Unnameable, the overnight program hosted by Bob …