May 7th is the anniversary of the start of the first general strike of hotel and restaurant workers in New York City in 1912. On that day over one hundred-fifty […]
Fran Lebowitz Talks Politics, NYC and Books
WORT 89.9FM Madison · Fran Lebowitz Talks Politics NYC And Books By the time she was 20 years old, Fran Lebowitz had already gotten herself expelled from high school, had […]
A History of ACT UP and AIDS Activism
It’s been almost thirty-five years since, in the midst of a different pandemic, a group of LGBT activists and people living with AIDS in New York came together in a […]
Tour the New York Hot Spots on New Years Eve on Strictly Jazz Sounds
This week’s edition of Strictly Jazz Sounds features a New Year’s Eve of clubbing in New York City. We’ll start at Birdland with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and […]
We Are Staying: A Story of Gentrification and Resilience
Today on the show, Ali kicks off WORT’s fall pledge drive with Jen Rubin, author of We Are Staying, an account of the shuttering of family-owned Radio Clinic and gentrification in […]
How a Family-Owned Radio Clinic Survived Through the Ages
Jen Rubin grew up in her father’s electronics store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In 1977, the largest blackout in U.S. history plunged all of New York City into darkness. […]
