The First Cell Phone Call
Last week marked the anniversary of the first public cell phone call. It was 1973, ten years before cell phones would become commercially available and many more years before they would become wildly...
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Happy Birthday, TLDR
One year ago today, PJ and I began blogging at TLDR. Looking back over the first couple of articles, it's clear we weren't entirely sure what we were doing, but we continued to plug away at it, and a...
View ArticleSeptember 11th Online
Yesterday was the 13th anniversary of the september 11th attacks, and it passed with the usual volume of memorials, think pieces, and status reports on the forever changed post 9-11 America. But one...
View ArticleSky High: NASA Looks Back at the Moon Landing
Four decades ago, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and "Buzz" Aldrin took off in the Apollo 11 spacecraft, headed straight to the moon. The tour was one small step for man, and one giant...
View ArticleWe Have Liftoff: When Apollo 11 Left the Lunar Surface
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. We've heard about the trip to the moon, the landing, the first footsteps. But one of the biggest challenges that NASA scientists faced...
View Article8 Years Later: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, and we take a look back at the start of the war, when President George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom. We also hear the...
View ArticleFive AD: Katrina After the Deluge
For most people living outside of the Gulf, Hurricane Katrina was a tragedy represented by tens of thousands of nameless faces. People waved frantically from rooftops or crowded into the Superdome,...
View ArticleFifty Years Since Kennedy Beat Nixon
It was 50 years ago today that a young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the first 20th-century born President of the United States, defeating incumbent vice-President Richard Nixon.We remember...
View ArticleFrom Haiti to Brooklyn: Earthquake Memoirs at PS 269
It’s been exactly a year since thousands of Haitian immigrants in the New York area got word that an earthquake had shaken their capitol city to pieces. Since then, many have taken in relatives from...
View ArticleFormer Teen CIA Recruit on The Bay of Pigs
In the Spring of 1960, the CIA began a covert plan to overthrow the Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. The idea was to invade Cuba in a coup d’etat. There were already counter-revolutionary forces in...
View Article150 Years of BAM
Brooklyn Academy of Music president Karen Brooks Hopkins and Sharon Lehner, director of the BAM archives, talk about the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 150 years of history and its contributions to their...
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Listen | Remembering Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Later
In the early morning hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on a naval base that many Americans had never heard of before: Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This attack brought...
View ArticleRemembering Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 was a grim rude awakening for the United States. America was part of a world dissolving into global industrial scale bloodshed. The attack on Pearl Harbor exposed the vulnerability and...
View ArticleJapanese American WWII Veterans Look Back on Pearl Harbor
Seventy years ago today, Japan attacked a naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing and wounding thousands of Americans. The enemy might have been Japan, but in the American melting pot there were...
View ArticleBangladesh on its 40th Anniversary
On Friday, Bangladesh marks its 40th anniversary. The Takeaway spends a few minutes on one American hero tied to this anniversary, a former U.S. diplomat who served in what was then known as East...
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Off Off Broadway Theater Groups Celebrate 20 Years in Business
On Friday, the non-profit, Obie-winning, Off Off Broadway theater company New Georges celebrates its 20th anniversary with performances, a dance party, food and cocktails.Artistic Director Susan...
View ArticleSinging the Titanic Blues
100 years ago today, the Titanic was in the midst of its ill-fated voyage across the Atlantic. As the centennial of the ship sinking disaster approaches, we listen back to songs inspired by the event -...
View ArticleAustrian Painter Gustav Klimt Back in the Spotlight
Vienna is declaring 2012 to be the year of Gustav Klimt. This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the birthday of the Austrian painter whose work later met a tragic fate under Nazi occupation.Dozens...
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Nation's First Incorporated African-American Town Gets Streetscape Makeover...
New Gateway Welcomes Visitors to Historic Eatonville Near Orlando(Nicole Creston, WMFE -- Orlando, Fla.) The small town of Eatonville, Fla. just north of Orlando is best known for being the oldest...
View ArticleThe Catskills Work Towards Recovery One Year After Hurricane Irene
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Irene, the storm that swept its way into New York State and the Catskills last summer, devastating the region and its residents.Days after Irene hit,...
View ArticleOne Year Later, Assessing Occupy’s Impact
For the first time in several months, the Occupy Wall Street movement grabbed headlines with protests marking its first anniversary. The movement that introduced the chant "We are the 99-percent" to...
View ArticleUE 92/12: 20th Anniversary, explores the lives of people born into one...
The Greene Space has partnered with TCG to present TCG Playwrights in Conversation, a series of events featuring TCG authors and featured artists. The evenings will be part of The Greene Space...
View ArticleTop Five 2013 Anniversaries That Aren't for Verdi or Wagner
A pair of operatic lions dominates the classical music celebrations in 2013. Both Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi turn 200 this year and already the two are grabbing headlines: controversy erupted in...
View ArticleHow the American Invasion Shaped Iraq
On the 10 year anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, the war that defined the start of the 21st century continues to exceed resolve for many Americans.It was sparked by an attack in our...
View ArticleOn Claude Debussy's 151st Birthday, 3 Recordings From His Era
Claude Debussy was born 151 years ago Thursday in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, an anniversary that might be largely overlooked in the classical music field, where focus is usually on big-numbered...
View ArticleWhat a Year in Public Radio Has Taught Me (+Happy Birthday, New Tech City!)
"Happy Birthday, New Tech City! You are 1 year old this week. Your daddy, Charlie Herman, and I are very proud." This week marks one year of public radio for me. Last September, the first New Tech City...
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Five Reasons Why C.P.E. Bach Matters
You might think that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach would be better known today, considering that he held such a pivotal position between the Baroque and the Romantic musical periods.Arguably the most...
View ArticleMary Poppins: Still Practically Perfect After 50 Years
Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke stepped in time 50 years ago this week. Mary Poppins is the queen of Disney live action musicals, and the grown-up issues at the heart of this children's classic are as...
View Article"25 Years in 25 Days" in Two Hours
The Brian Lehrer Show is not live today, so we won't be taking any calls. As always, you can join the conversation online through our comments section (links below), on Facebook, or on Twitter through...
View ArticleHappy 30th Anniversary, Leonard Lopate!
Our 30th anniversary is coming up on The Leonard Lopate Show, and we could not have done it without our dedicated listeners. And now, we want to hear from you!We want to know more about you. Let us...
View ArticleOklahoma City: 20 Years of Healing Continues
This weekend, the nation will pause to remember a dark moment in American history: the Oklahoma City Bombing, which took place 20 years ago this Sunday.Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols...
View Article11 Composer Anniversaries and Birthdays to Celebrate in the 2015-16 Season
Last season, fans of Scandanavian music were treated to an abundance of works by Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius as musicians around the world celebrated both composers' 150th birthdays (though...
View ArticleStoryCorps 440: On the Other Side of Death
StoryCorps and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum are recording one interview for each person lost on 9/11/2001. In this episode, you’ll hear from family and friends remembering their loved...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo, a Year Later
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.It's been one year since the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo was attacked by terrorists in Paris, when the Kouachi brothers killed 11...
View ArticleNigeria Moves From Bloody History to Bright Future
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Today marks the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's first coup d'etat. The country, previously under British rule, had officially become a democracy in...
View Article7 Ways To Celebrate Shakespeare in NYC
Not to discount the many deaths that William Shakespeare penned during his lifetime, but his own passing was and is, perhaps, the most legendary.April 23, 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of...
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50 Years at the New Metropolitan Opera House
In my most recent article I described why it was necessary to build a new Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center and why, unfortunately, the old Met was destroyed in the process.In 1966-67, I was a...
View ArticleJFK and TV
In the days following September 11th, television united Americans as it had few times before. In this special edition for On the Media, WNYC's Sara Fishko takes us back to November 22nd, 1963 - the...
View ArticleThe New York Philharmonic at 175
Tune in Thursday at 9 pm to hear New York Philharmonic This Week celebrate 175 years of the ensemble with a special episode including some of the world's best conductors of the modern era. Program...
View ArticleThe Wartime Origins of The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle, joins us to discuss the 75th anniversary of the paper’s legendary puzzle. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a New York...
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