Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
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S15E584 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 bread? Great Emancipator, chintzy host. A conversation with…
S15E583 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 throughout the house and in our bedrooms. All night. Newborns!…
S15E582 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, none of those things." Not just a public good, "a…
S15E581 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 fan of Jesus; we go way back." The first of a two-part…
S15E580 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 to try to get a screw out of a macaw.'" A sentence never…
S15E579 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 that was named after me. They don't make it anymore." And thus…
S15E578 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 braces-wearing, awkward girl from Kansas." Not just…
S15E577 David Greenspan
Having received many awards, this actor and playwright says that winning need not be so great nor losing so dreadful. "Some people can win something and lose their minds. I don't know that losing has…
S15E576 Lana Turner
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 hat." She'd turn around and march back up that hill, with…
S15E575 Anjan Chatterjee
His research on the neuroscience of aesthetics suggests that people crave the human touch. "If they think something is made by a person, they like it more; if they think it's made by a machine they…
S15E574 Elizabeth Way
This scholar says, "What made American fashion different is that it was to be wearable, comfortable, practical." But not on the red carpet at the Oscars, she did not add. We spoke in conjunction with…
S15E573 Kinan Azmeh
I'm reluctant to declare an artist a success or failure. This Syrian-born composer and clarinetist has a better characterization: doing well. "Staying true to what I wanted to do, and leading a…
S15E572 Rev. Winnie Varghese
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, because it feels like a holy place." My house shall be a…
S15E571 the late Aaron Copland
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 as a rival or a competitor, that we were all colleagues."…
S15E570 Charles Renfro
Can architecture be witty? At that scale? At those prices? This architect ponders. "It can certainly be smart, and it can do unexpected things, which doesn't necessarily make it witty. That might…
S15E569 Richard Nelson
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 be performed by six young women putting on this play in the…
S15E568 LaFrae Sci
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 technology and future possibilities." One of those robot…
S15E567 Ali Velshi
"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't see themselves—and then to use that to hold power to…
S15E566 Andrew Kimball
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 development. I actually knew from being a little kid." When…
S15E565 Carlos Simon
"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 business? Perhaps he did. "I'm doing some of the same things as…
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