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In this new kind of interview show, Randy Cohen talks to guests about a person, a place, and a thing they feel strongly about. The result: surprising stories from great talkers. Learn more a...
These veterinarians enjoy their work. He says, "I'm always excited when someone from exotics says, 'Hey, do you have time tomorrow? We need...
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...
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...
Having received many awards, this actor and playwright says that winning need not be so great nor losing so dreadful. "Some people can win s...
This Harlem fashion icon owns more than 600 hats. "There were times I would leave my house, get down the hill, and recognize it's the wrong...
His research on the neuroscience of aesthetics suggests that people crave the human touch. "If they think something is made by a person, the...
This scholar says, "What made American fashion different is that it was to be wearable, comfortable, practical." But not on the red carpet a...
I'm reluctant to declare an artist a success or failure. This Syrian-born composer and clarinetist has a better characterization: doing well...
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is an Episcopal church and more, says its Dean. "I have Jewish, Hindu, Muslim friends who pray here, be...
As portrayed by Michael Boriskin, director of Copland House. "I decided from the time I was in my mid-twenties that there was no such thing...
Can architecture be witty? At that scale? At those prices? This architect ponders. "It can certainly be smart, and it can do unexpected thin...
This playwright directed his When the Hurly Burly's Done in Kyiv. "It's about six young women putting on a play in the middle of a war, to b...
The leader of the Willie Mae Rock Camp describes a device she uses to teach girls about blues and STEM: "It is a collision of culture and te...
"There are only two reasons to be a journalist," says this one, "To bear witness—to see things that your viewers or readers or listeners can...
As head of NYC's Economic Development Corporation, he guided massive projects. "I knew in my twenties that I wanted to be in urban economic...
"My father was a pastor. My grandfather was a pastor. My great-grandfather was a pastor." Why didn't this composer go into the family busine...
This preservationist speaks movingly about his great great grandfather, Samuel Untermyer, "the super-lawyer who took on Hitler." It's the co...
These Jane Austen scholars note that she long had a diverse readership, but in post-war America that changed. "Publishers pushed her to wome...
The Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA enjoys work that surprises, up to a point. "I don't like gigantic provocations, I like small...
Celebrated for his use of light, this architect is moved by that from distant stars: "Those photons are around us—we can't see them—but they...
The heirs of deceased playwrights can be finicky about new productions—Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller—but the head of the Mint Theater has a...
The curator and executive director of the AKC Museum of the Dog recalls one owned by Charles Dickens. "It was a Maltese that was so flea-rid...
We tweaked our format to Cat Cat Cat for the author of The Cat Men of Gotham: Tales of Feline Friendship in Old New York. "A lot of my stori...
The head of New York City's Department of Transportation sees his task as building an egalitarian city. "Transportation is a human right, bu...
A conversation with the basic, free, web version, using its default voice. Like my human guests, it chose the three topics, and I did just t...
We tweaked our format to Tree Tree Tree for this arboreal photographer, who specializes in the immense and the ancient—2,000 years old, 3,00...
Brown, the founder of Evidence, a dance company, says, "You'll see yourself on stage." I hope he's speaking figuratively. Cabuag, its associ...
This set and costume designer worked on 80 Broadway shows, 30 films, several operas, and innumerable dance works. Here's a tip he gleaned co...
For decades after graduating, these architects avoided Cooper Union. "We would detour three or four blocks or else the PTSD would kick in."...
This preservationist, a wily veteran of decades of urban campaigns, is happy in his work: "I've never regretted being involved in saving a l...
When this playwright's grandfather faced a tough decision, "He sought the advice of Paul Robeson." Of course he did. Who wouldn't? And it al...
She and her neighbors—untrained, uncredentialed—revived the Bronx River and are taking on the hideous Cross Bronx Expressway. "We're just a...
"The least interesting thing about a book is its contents, assert the curators of the recent Grolier Club exhibition After Words: Visual and...
In 1972, his parents, Massimo and Lella, designed a map of the New York subway system. Many people hated it. I loved it. (I have one framed...
As a member of Manhattan Transfer, she won ten Grammy awards, but "I was not going to be a singer at all, actually; I was going to be a nurs...
Her father, Leonard Bernstein, thought "that if he could write a good enough song, maybe he could stop war." Not insane, aspiring. "It's rid...
He's a member of The Washington Post 's editorial board, a commentator on the PBS NewsHour, anchor of The Weekend on MSNBC, author of Yet He...
When this drummer was a kid, his father introduced him to an array of music, from Tito Puente to Dobie Gray. "He bought himself a La-Z-Boy c...
She's a special correspondent for BBC Studios, a regular contributor to MSNBC, and co-host, with Anthony Scaramucci, of the podcast The Rest...
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research makes many of the 24 million items in its archive available online, but there's an "electric moment o...
This Obie-winning actor created the role of Helen in the Classical Theatre of Harlem's Memnon . "It is definitely under-utilized. Underappre...
Decades ago, he shook hands with W. E. B. Du Bois, born in 1868. It seems impossible, but then again Einstein was a contemporary of Billy th...
These principals of the architectural firm WORKac found it challenging to design their own home. The psychological complexity of domestic li...
The artistic director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company summarizes his aesthetic: "The curtain goes up, twenty minutes happen, the curtain co...
He's worked from Hanoi to Berlin to America's old-growth forests. "As a photographer, it's only in getting lost that you move forward." As a...
He led the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and pretty much created theater at Lincoln Center. "The happiest moments of my life have been in rehea...
This lawyer works on health policy at Columbia's Mailman School: "Public health in a certain sense is about balancing, the rights we have as...
This children's book author— Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tiger Rising, The Tale of Despereaux —describes her innate ability: "I have a knack...
This graphic designer spent her early childhood in Germany. "My father told me, 'You are Korean, you are a visitor here, and what that means...
"We got it from Lauren Bacall," says this curator. The flu? Certainly not. An Elsa Peretti handbag, one of 700 items from Bacall's wardrobe...