November 2008
4 posts
This Week at 92Y →
Clockwise from top left: E.O. Wilson, Annie Leibovitz, Daniel Barenboim, Amy Sedaris
Mon, Dec 1
Reading Series: Amitav Ghosh and Aleksandar Hemon
Radical Islam and the…
92Y Podcast: Cornel West and Susan Neiman
On September 25, 2008, Cornel West and Susan Neiman appeared at the Y for a discussion on what roles race and religion play in the Presidential election, what they say about America today and how these roles affect the key issues concerning our country. The Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University, West is one of America’s most provocative public intellectuals and the author of Hope on...
92Y Video: Gloria Steinem and Patricia J. Williams...
Previously, we posted an audio excerpt from the September 10, 2008 program with Marie Wilson, executive director of The White House Project, activist/writer Gloria Steinem and prominent law critic Patricia J. Williams on women and politics. The video above offers more from the same evening, specifically an interesting conversation about what to make of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s...
David Alvarez: Finding Billy
Video: David Alvarez receives a standig ovation at the end of “Electricity” from Billy Elliot the Musical
Last May we introduced you to David Alvarez, one of “the best young dancers in the US at the moment” and one of the stars of Billy Elliot the Musical now playing on Broadway. Ben Brantley, theater critic for the New York Times, called his performance “excellent.” To supplement his dancing...
