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Episode 263: Invisible Viruses on the Big Screen
Dr. Steven Thrasher — curator of the Viruses on Film series screening at BAM now — talks about the experience of people coming together to watch movi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 262: Of Mayors and Mekons
A story about the time that Phil Banks said stop-and-frisk wasn't a thing, plus a post-credits mini-concert from Jon Langford of the Mekons, performi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 261: A Bad Look for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
The progressive icon didn’t pay her hair person or makeup artist until after the Congressional Ethics Committee started looking into her Met Gala app…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 260: A Pot Seller’s Post-Prohibition Plan
Bronxite Jason Morales has been selling pot, and racking up pot-related arrested, for 20-plus years. Now, he's thinking about a license and hoping fo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 259: Phil, Till the Next Episode
Was Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks’ “episode” — his word — in which he answered a couple pre-submitted questions from the public, but re…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 258: ‘Crazy’ Eddie Antar Was the Original Retail Gangster
Gary Weiss joins the pod to discuss "The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie" and his book about that.
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 257: Where Eric Adams and Ron DeSantis See Eye-to-Eye
A discussion of just some of the news from another jam-packed week in New York City with hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel.
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 256: A Portrait of the (Free) Portrait Artist
Rusty Zimmerman is spending the year making oil paintings of and collecting oral histories from 200 people living in South Brooklyn. That includes FA…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 255: George Santos Is Real-Life George Costanza
And there’s really nothing funny about it.
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 254: ‘It Was Very Easy to Survive, Except You Might Killed. (Probably Not.)’
Leonard Abrams, the founder and editor of the late, great East Village Eye (1979-1987) and Julie Golia, curator at the New York Public Library, which…
3 years, 4 months ago