Fishko Files is a series of culture stories told by WNYC Radio’s Sara Fishko. Tweets signed SF are from Sara Fishko, all others from Associate Producer.
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I always learn something and feel elevated after listening to the Fishko Files. I got my love of absolutely stuffing a piece with sound from her!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️ wnyc.org/story/vast-wastelan…
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I took a picture! nitter.cf/julesdwit/status/40509…
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one morning a few years ago, I was listening to WNYC. My cat Pip suddenly came to attention, big-eyed, as if a bell had gone off...
...what alarmed Pip was a cat's meow, recorded in the 1950s, and inserted into a piece by @fishkofiles
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The great Sara Fishko ponders the anniversary of Newton Minow's "vast wasteland" speech and his call for programming in the public interest. LISTEN: wnyc.org/story/vast-wastelan… by @FishkoFiles @wnyc
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"It's almost huggable." @FishkoFiles looks at the enduring appeal of the 90 year old Empire State Building. wnyc.org/story/empire-state-…
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Today marks the 81st bday of @herbiehancock! Hancock rose to international prominence as the pianist in #MilesDavis' iconic "Second Great Quintet." In the past half century he has continued to explore new terrain in jazz & his work reminds us of this music's limitless potential.
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Charlie Chaplin found inspiration in the work of the painter Granville Redmond, and even offered him a room to paint on his studio lot. On breaks, Chaplin would visit Redmond there and sit motionless, watching him work. nyti.ms/39Ww1DT
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The song "There’ll Be Some Changes Made" is an inspiration as we look for our own era's page turned to the next chapter.
@FishkoFiles discusses embracing change a hundred years ago and today. wnyc.org/story/therell-be-so…
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The new and third season of Aria Code launches on Mar 10! Bigger and better than ever. If you are an opera connoisseur or opera curious, you can listen every other week for 18 episodes! Join us. wnycstudios.org/podcasts/ari… @WNYCStudios @WQXR @MetOpera @RhiannonGiddens
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🇵🇷NEW SHOW🇵🇷 "La Brega" is a series created by Puerto Rican journalists, musicians and artists—hosted by @AlanaLlama—about life, history, and power in Puerto Rico. Listen (in English AND Spanish) now (1/3): labregapodcast.org
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Breaking News: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and publisher who nurtured the Beat movement from his famed San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, has died. He was 101. nyti.ms/3aNwRny
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R.I.P. Chick Corea, June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021. Here he is playing electric piano with Miles Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Dave Holland on bass, and Jack DeJohnette on drums in France in 1969.
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“This is Black art. And it matters. And it’s been going on for two hundred years. Deal with it.”
So declares the art historian Maurice Berger in “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” an absorbing documentary debuting on HBO Tuesday night. nyti.ms/2Okybp5
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❄️ Brrr...stay safe inside today, friends! This view of West 47th Street, looking east from Sixth Avenue, was taken after a heavy snow in 1929.
📷 William J. Roege
ALT Image of an old car down driving down a building-lined city street. On either side are large snow banks obscuring.
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Cicely Tyson, Pioneering Hollywood Icon, Dies at 96 variety.com/2020/tv/news/cic…
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listened to like eight @FishkoFiles yesterday, there is honestly no better antidote to twitter than a little film noir plus jazz history
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As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, the new documentary film MLK/FBI is a dark and revealing update to civil rights movement history.
Hear about two #MLK films on this edition of @FishkoFiles. wnyc.org/story/mlk-2-films
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And @FishkoFiles looks at films exploring the dark history of FBI interference in the civil rights movement. wnyc.org/story/mlk-2-films
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@FishkoFiles Former colleague of mine was Dave Brubeck's grandson. Brubeck frequently offered to teach him piano. Grandson was like "Nah." wnyc.org/story/256128-an-hou…