Lauren Lovette
This former principal with the New York City Ballet is a resident choreographer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, a daunting transition. "...
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20 of 119 episodesDavid LaMarche
Conductor and Music Director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, he began in the eighties as rehearsal pianist for the Dance Theatre of Harlem...
Myq Kaplan
"One of the great strengths of being a standup comedian," he says, "is that the person most likely to use things that will embarrass me, is...
Matias Tarnopolsky
The president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic describes their task: "It's about the creation of those incredible moments that lead up t...
Victoria Johnson
This authority on artist Frederic Church notes his confidence in America. "He's saying we in the United States are worthy of occupying a pla...
Ben Furnas
The head of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group for cyclists, pedestrians, and transit, says traveling by bus or subway is egalit...
Harold Holzer
If this historian could go back in time and attend any of Lincoln's speeches, he'd pick the Cooper Union address rather than the one you (I?...
Alondra Nelson
This social scientist and policy advisor finds hope in local resistance to data centers. "These are our neighbors saying we thought we had n...
Herb Gould
"Eye surgery now is so marvelous," says this ophthalmologist. "I'm amazed." At age 97, he's one of the innovators who made it amazing, and h...
James Snyder
Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington does not convey his actual appearance, says the Jewish Museum's director. "It's the way Washi...
Sandy Neubauer and Alan Klein
They note that the leaders of the Irish rebellion of 1916 "wrote plays and poems and were well known in Irish literary circles." I'd be happ...
Peter Aigner, Ted Knudsen
These historians note that our Revolutionary War was also a civil war. "In New York and Philadelphia and Charleston, it really was neighbor...
Christopher Payne
A little sadness tints his exultant photographs of subway repair shops: "I'm one step ahead of the wrecking ball, whether it's a factory tha...
Fake Abe Lincoln
When he asked Frederick Douglass to the White House, did he serve snacks? "We did offer some refreshments, perhaps tea and bread." Tea and b...
Marta Aznavoorian
From the day she was born, her father was determined to make her a musician: "When I was brought home, my father piped classical music throu...
Bishop Katrina Foster (pt 2)
The Lutheran Bishop of New York esteems the subway. "It doesn't discriminate based on age, race, gender identity, religion, lack of religion...
Bishop Katrina Foster (pt 1)
The Lutheran Bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod has a complex and nuanced view of God but unbridled affection for His son: "I'm a big...
Carly Fox and Dennis Slade
These veterinarians enjoy their work. He says, "I'm always excited when someone from exotics says, 'Hey, do you have time tomorrow? We need...
Jennifer Tipton
After a lifetime as a lighting designer for theater and dance, much of it working with gels, she received this honor: "There was a color tha...
Helen Shaw
The chief theater critic of the New York Times is a model of sophistication, but she didn't begin that way. "I was an extremely nerdy, very...