Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, talks to WNYC's Leonard Lopate about her new memoir about family life in Iran.

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Matt Miller, columnist for Fortune, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, host of "Left, Right & Center," and the author of The "Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity" (Times Books, 2009), talks about how Americans should let go of certain long-held assumptions, for instance, that "your children will earn more than you do." http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/01/06/segments/120227 Left, Right & Center airs on AM 820 WNYC on Sundays at 6:30am

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WNYC's Performance Critic Claudia La Rocco stopped by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet to preview a rehearsal of Didy Veldman's new dance, "Frame of View." The show is part of Cedar Lake's winter season and runs January 8-18th, 2009. WNYC's Performance club will be attending on the 12th and you should join them. Visit the Art.Cult blog for more information. http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture Produced by Claudia La Rocco and Andrea Silenzi

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Fred Mogul, WNYC reporter, reports on people participating in drug trials for the cash. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/01/05/segments/120136

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D. W. Young's documentary "A Hole in a Fence" was filmed in Red Hook, Brooklyn in Spring 2006, Pre-Ikea. With WNYC's film critic Nathan Lee, the two revisit the empty lot where "A Hole in a Fence" was filmed.

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When then Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Judge Judith Kaye to the New York State Court of Appeals in 1983 she was the first woman to serve on the state's highest court. Now 25 years later she has served longer than any other chief judge in New York history. On the eve of her retirement, Judge Judith Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York, joins us to reflect on her time on the bench.

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Of Montreal performed live on WNYCs Soundcheck on Dec. 16, 2008. Visit WNYC.org to hear the full interview and two live songs from the bands album Skeletal Lamping. After the interview, frontman Kevin Barnes and guitarist Kevin Barnes talked about their favorite on-stage costumes -- and Kevin revealed a secret about shaving cream. All images in the video are copyright Paige Parsons http://www.flickr.com/people/paigekparsons/

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Travelers trying to get a head start on their holiday vacations are running into delays, as a snow storm from the Midwest sweeps through the area.

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Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton talks about his new position as senior minister of Riverside Church and progressive Christianity. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/12/19/segments/118846

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In SoHo, New York there is a second-floor loft full of dirt. It's called the New York Earth Room, and is a Dia Foundation Project. The artist is Walter De Maria, and he installed it here in 1977. Bill Dilworth has cared for the Earth Room for 19 years. Produced by Benjamen Walker and Andrea Silenzi for WNYC Culture

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Watch Brian Lehrer's top five web video video picks as broadcast on his weekly show on CUNY TV, then check out the rest of the show on at http://brianlehrer.tv The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lehrer/

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WNYC's Siddhartha Mitter looks at some of the cultural details emerging about Obama's swearing in ceremony.

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Jeanne Flavin, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Fordham University, member of the board at the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and the author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Womens Reproduction in America, looks at the expanding role of the criminal justice system in womens reproductive health. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/12/16/segments/118421

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Watch Brian Lehrer's top five web video video picks as broadcast on his weekly show on CUNY TV, then check out the rest of the show on at http://www.brianlehrer.tv The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lehrer/

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Before Xeroxing and digital images, businesses would take their orders for menus, posters and receipt booklets to a local printer to be set in type and pressed to paper. Henington Press in Park Slope, Brooklyn was just that kind of place. Its a family business that started in 1912 and is going to close this winter. Before the presses stop, WNYC's Kathleen Horan dropped by and talked with the press's owner, David Harris. Produced by Kathleen Horan and Andrea Silenzi

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Watch Brian Lehrer's top five web video video picks (with Guest Host Marty Goldensohn) as broadcast on his weekly show on CUNY TV, then check out the rest of the show on at http://www.Brianlehrer.tv The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lehrer/

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Check out the Art.Cult blog at WNYC.org to hear Performance critic Claudia La Rocco's response to this video, courtesy of the Boston Ballet. http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2008/12/12/and-now-for-your-halftime-pleasure/

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Khaled Hosseini, U.S. envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and author of "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and "The Kite Runner," talks about his second novel and his work with the UNHCR in Afghanistan on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/12/04/segments/117341

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The broadcast Radio Rookies Brooklyn workshop is being held in partnership with the High School for Global Citizenship (HSGC) in Crown Heights. HSGC strives to create a learning environment that encourages, Peace, Justice, Sustainability, Diversity, and Democratic Participation. This year is the schools first graduating class since its establishment in 2004. The Crown Heights rookies all attend HSGC and are from the Flatbush and Crown Heights neighborhoods. The Brooklyn workshop began in March meeting two to three times a week after school and on Saturday mornings at HSGC. During their first two months the Rookies learned about radio documentaries, how to use their recording equipment, interviewing techniques, basic digital audio editing and storytelling skill and how to develop their story ideas.

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