Why One Queens Neighborhood — Touched By Tragedy — Keeps Flooding
Hollis, in southeast Queens, is not on the water. It’s not in a flood zone. And yet residents have been dealing with flooding for years — most recently during Hurricane Ida. WNYC’s Elizabeth Kim...
View ArticleThe Get Out: Halloween in NYC Preview
WNYC culture editor Jay Vanasco drops by for another installment of our ongoing series, "The Get Out," to help us look forward to all the Halloween action around New York City this weekend. Plus, we...
View ArticleLocal Lawmakers Want To Ban Helicopter Sightseeing Tours Over New York City
Local lawmakers are calling on Congress to ban nonessential helicopter trips over New York City. WNYC's Katherine Fung has more.
View ArticleA Wondrous Afrofuturism Period Room Comes to the Met Museum
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art imagines an alternate future for a lost Black community. WNYC's Jennifer Vanasco explains. For the full story, listen to the audio above, and go to...
View ArticleWhat To Do In NYC With Jay Vanasco
WNYC's Jay Vanasco gives us her list of must see shows and exhibits in the city before they close.
View ArticleMichelle Buteau On Comedy After Lockdown
Comedians have been performing at more than 100 venues around the city during the New York Comedy Festival, including Carnegie Hall, Carolines on Broadway and the Apollo Theater. It's a huge change...
View ArticleThe Get Out — Nov. 18, 2021
Jennifer Vanasco, WNYC editor in the newsroom who writes about culture and theater, joins us to discuss what to do this weekend.
View ArticleDon't Miss It: Carrie Mae Weems, Black Theater Artists, & West Side Story
The arts and culture scene is thriving in the city. WNYC Culture Editor Jennifer Vanasco spoke with host David Furst for her regular series, “Don’t Miss It,” highlighting the best the city has to offer.
View ArticleWhy Finding A Christmas Tree May Be Harder This Year
In New York City, Christmas tree sales are in full swing. But as WNYC's Katherine Fung reports, you might have to look a little harder for your perfect tree this year, and pay a little more.
View ArticleMichael Steinhardt To Surrender 180 Stolen Antiquities: Manhattan DA
The Manhattan District Attorney's office has announced it's seizing almost 200 stolen antiquities from billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt. Leila Amineddoleh, an attorney specializing in art...
View Article'The Shape of Things': Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory
A new installation by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems called "The Shape of Things" has taken over the Park Avenue Armory. WNYC’s Jennifer Vanasco says it speaks to our current political moment using...
View ArticleLincoln Center Is Reckoning With Its Racist History
Long before Lincoln Center became one of the world’s foremost destinations for the performing arts, the land it sits on was at the heart of a thriving Black and Latino Upper West Side neighborhood...
View ArticleLincoln Center Is Now Reckoning With Its Racist History - And Remembering San...
Long before Lincoln Center became one of the world’s foremost destinations for the performing arts, the land it sits on was at the heart of a thriving Black and Latino Upper West Side neighborhood...
View ArticleUntangling the New York Trump Investigations
Former PresidentDonald Trump is the target of at least three separate investigations that are in the news this week. One in Congress, one being conducted by the New York State Attorney General, and one...
View ArticleAre Deepfakes As Scary As They Seem?
Videos created with the help of artificial intelligence are starting to flood the internet. A new exhibit looks deeper. WNYC's Jennifer Vanasco visits the Museum of the Moving Image.For the full story,...
View ArticleA Final 'The Get Out' with Jennifer Vanasco
Joining us from WNYC's newsroom culture desk, editor Jennifer Vanasco comes on All Of It for a final installment of her ongoing series The Get Out, where she discusses what to do in the city this...
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Mystery recordings will now be heard for the first time in about 100 years
Before audio playlists, before cassette tapes and even before records, there were wax cylinders — the earliest, mass-produced way people could both listen to commercial music and record themselves.In...
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Public art project 'Tender' explores the vulnerability of our economy and...
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She inscribed 120,000 NYC pennies with a pandemic message. Is one in your...
When artist Jill Magid was asked to do a public art work for the non-profit Creative Time in 2020, she had to take a step back."It's very hard to make a public art piece when there's no public and...
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List of the 2022 Tony Nominations
Nominations for the 2022 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre WingBest PlayClyde's, Lynn Nottage Hangmen, Martin McDonagh The Lehman Trilogy,...
View ArticleA Review of the Nominations for the 75th Tony Awards
The Tony Nominations were announced Monday. NPR editor Jay Vanasco talks about what stood out to her.
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Encore: She inscribed 120,000 pennies with a pandemic message. Is one in your...
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A new app guides visitors through NYC's Chinatown with hidden stories
Composer George Tsz-Kwan Lam has always liked writing music inspired by places."There are all these places in Chinatown that are both hidden and meaningful," he says, stepping out of the way of...
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Encore: A new app guides visitors through NYC's Chinatown with hidden stories
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The 2022 Tony Award winners
These are the nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards.Best PlayClyde's, Lynn NottageHangmen, Martin McDonaghThe Lehman Trilogy, Stefano Massini, Ben Power The Minutes, Tracy LettsSkeleton Crew, Dominique...
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6 takeaways from the 2022 Tony Awards
The 75th Annual Tony Awards celebrated Broadway's first full season after the pandemic shutdown. Many of the shows up for awards were supposed to open in 2020— until theaters unexpectedly closed for a...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Fat Ham' takes 'Hamlet' in unexpected directions
The character of Juicy is described in the new play Fat Ham as "a kind of Hamlet" - his father is dead and a ghost, his uncle has killed him, and that uncle is now married to his mother.This...
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A provocative exhibit at NYC's Met Museum takes a new point of view
Perhaps the most surprising object in the exhibit "Water Memories," now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is a denim jacket. It's a Wrangler knock-off, with a red felt thunderbird on the...
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A new NYC Met exhibit explores the complicated role water plays for...
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How to watch the Emmys on Monday night
The 74th Annual Emmy Awards, chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, are coming up on Monday, and we know you have questions. Luckily, we've got answers.When are the Emmy Awards this...
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This man's recordings spent years under a recliner — they've now found a new...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Lionel Mapleson, then the librarian at New York's Metropolitan Opera, did something new: He took an Edison "Home" model phonograph and recorded operas with an...
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When people are less important than beaches: Puerto Rican artists at the...
One of the most striking pieces in a new exhibit of Puerto Rican artists wrestling with life after (and before) Hurricane Maria is a simple electric post, suspended in the air as if a hurricane had...
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When people are less important than beaches: Puerto Rican artists at the...
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'Some Like It Hot' leads with 13 Tony Award nominations
Updated May 2, 2023 at 11:02 AM ETThe musical Some Like It Hot— a theatrical remake of the 1959 Billy Wilder movie musical — garnered 13 Tony nominations, the most in a season that saw many new plays...
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Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Josh Groban, cast of 'Hamilton' celebrate 'Sweeney...
Some fans had been waiting for four hours. But by a few minutes to showtime, hundreds pressed against metal barriers as the casts of Sweeney Todd - which opened in late March - and the Broadway hit...
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Our 5 favorite exhibits from 'This Is New York' — a gritty, stylish city...
Visiting New York City this summer? A fun, family-friendly exhibit celebrating movies, TV shows, music, books, fashion and art inspired by the city is now open at the Museum of the City of New...
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'This Is New York' exhibit is a gritty, stylish city celebration
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Where to watch Broadway's Tony Awards on Sunday night
It's been a tough few years for the Tony Awards, which celebrate Broadway's finest. They were canceled during the pandemic, and this year, it looked like they might be canceled because of the Writers...
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Tony Awards 2023: Here's the list of major winners with photos
Updated June 11, 2023 at 11:05 PM ETThe 76th Tony Awards wrapped up at the United Palace Sunday night. Below is the list of major 2023 Tony Award nominees with winners marked in bold. The complete list...
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6 takeaways from the 2023 Tony Awards
NEW YORK — This was an unusual year for the 76th Annual Tony Awards. It was almost canceled because of the Writers Guild of America strike. There was no script. It was held for the first time at the...
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A new free play at Federal Hall reveals the bumpy early days of the government
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Vibrating haptic suits give deaf people a new way to feel live music
When Daniel Belquer was first asked to join a team to make a better live music experience for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, he was struck by how they had developed work-arounds to enjoy concerts....
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Pee-wee Herman was more than a boy who never grew up
Updated August 1, 2023 at 9:54 AM ETPee-wee Herman, the comic creation of actor/writer Paul Reubens, would often toss taunts of the schoolyard into his casual conversation. It was one of the...
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Emmy Awards rescheduled to Jan. 15 due to Hollywood strikes
The Emmy Awards are now planned for Jan. 15, the Television Academy and Fox announced today. The 75th annual awards show honoring the best in television was originally scheduled to air in September,...
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A new kids' space at an art museum is actually about science
Education is part of the mission of most art museums. Programs usually help kids learn things like how to look at a painting, how to draw or the biographies of certain artists. But the Metropolitan...
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Free babysitting on Broadway? This nonprofit helps parents get to the theater
An arts non-profit has a big goal: to bring occasional free babysitting to every arts institution in the country. This weekend, PAAL, the Parent Artist Advocacy League for Performing Arts and Media, is...
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An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans
From the elevated platform of the 7 train in Queens, New York, a formerly-empty lot now looks like a carnival. There's lights and colorful posters and — wait. Is that a giant, talking beaver?Yes. Yes,...
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An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans
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NPR staffers pick their favorite food books from the 2023 Books We Love list
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Whitney Biennial, a showcase of American contemporary arts, is returning to NYC
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