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ALL OF IT is a show about culture and its consumers. ALL OF IT is a show about culture and context. ALL OF IT is a show about culture and the culture. Our aim is to engage the thinkers, doers, makers, and creators, about the what and why of their work. People make the culture and we hope, need, and want the WNYC community to be a part of our show. As we build a community around ALL OF IT, we know that every guest and listener has an opinion. We won’t always agree, but our varied perspectives and diversity of experience is what makes New York City great. ALL OF IT will be both companion for and curator of the myriad culture this city has to offer. In the words of Cristina De Rossi, anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College, London: "Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things." ...In other words, ALL OF IT. --- Join us for ALL OF IT with Alison Stewart, weekdays from 12:00 - 2:00PM on WNYC.

ALL OF IT is a show about culture and its consumers. ALL OF IT is a show about culture and context. ALL OF IT is a show about culture and the culture. Our aim is to engage the thinkers, doers, makers, and creators, about the what and why of their work. People make the culture and we hope, need, and want the WNYC community to be a part of our show. As we build a community around ALL OF IT, we know that every guest and listener has an opinion. We won’t always agree, but our varied perspectives and diversity of experience is what makes New York City great. ALL OF IT will be both companion for and curator of the myriad culture this city has to offer. In the words of Cristina De Rossi, anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College, London: "Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things." ...In other words, ALL OF IT. --- Join us for ALL OF IT with Alison Stewart, weekdays from 12:00 - 2:00PM on WNYC.

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New York, NY

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ALL OF IT is a show about culture and its consumers. ALL OF IT is a show about culture and context. ALL OF IT is a show about culture and the culture. Our aim is to engage the thinkers, doers, makers, and creators, about the what and why of their work. People make the culture and we hope, need, and want the WNYC community to be a part of our show. As we build a community around ALL OF IT, we know that every guest and listener has an opinion. We won’t always agree, but our varied perspectives and diversity of experience is what makes New York City great. ALL OF IT will be both companion for and curator of the myriad culture this city has to offer. In the words of Cristina De Rossi, anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College, London: "Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things." ...In other words, ALL OF IT. --- Join us for ALL OF IT with Alison Stewart, weekdays from 12:00 - 2:00PM on WNYC.

Language:

English

Contact:

WNYC Radio 160 Varick St. New York, NY 10013

Episodes

Debate Recap

10/23/2020
Joan Walsh, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and a political analyst at CNN, joins to recap the final presidential debate of the 2020 election season.

Duration:00:23:23

FULL BIO: 'The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X' (Part 5)

10/23/2020
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Les Payne worked on The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X for 28 years before his death. In this final conversation, his daughter and principal researcher Tamara Payne describes how seeing Malcolm X speak in 1963 changed her father’s life, what drew him to investigative journalism, how he was able to uncover the details of important episodes in Malcolm X’s life that had never been reported before, and how she completed the book.

Duration:00:16:24

Saxelby Guide to Cheese

10/23/2020
Anne Saxelby, the founder of Saxelby Cheesemongers, Manhattan’s first cheese shop dedicated to American artisanal cheese, joins us to discuss her book, The New Rules of Cheese: A Freewheeling & Informative Guide.

Duration:00:20:03

'Art Hiding in New York'

10/23/2020
Lori Zimmer, curator, author, and founder of the popular art history blog Art Nerd New York, joins us to discuss her new book, Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret Masterpieces. The book was recently highlighted by Forbes, who called it “not only a 280-page love letter to her adopted home town, but a reminder of why NYC will always be a thriving, creative, bustling epicenter for the world.” It was also included in Lit Hub’s list of “12 Books You Should Read in...

Duration:00:21:04

'This Is What Democracy Looked Like' at Cooper Union

10/22/2020
Ahead of the start of early voting in New York, we take a look at what ballots have looked like throughout history. Alicia Cheng, author of This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot, joins us to discuss curating an exhibit of the same name at Cooper Union. The exhibit follows the history of American elections through print reproductions of 26 individual ballots and will be on view from October 19, 2020 through November 7, 2020 on the Foundation Building’s...

Duration:00:16:06

COVID Etiquette for Autumn

10/22/2020
As the weather gets cooler and the holidays approach, many of us are having to navigate totally new etiquette dilemmas because of COVID-19: How do you figure out Thanksgiving when your friends and family have precautions are different than your own? Or curtail the guest list because you're worried about social distancing? How do you set the ground rules for your kid's playdate with a new friend? New York Times Social Q's columnist Philip Galanes shares his advice on some of these quandaries...

Duration:00:21:58

FULL BIO: 'The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X' (Part 4)

10/22/2020
Malcolm X officially left the Nation of Islam in March 1964. Less than a year later, he was assassinated in a Harlem ballroom. In the fourth of five conversations, Tamara Payne describes the final year of Malcolm’s life and how traveling the world changed his perspective on faith and race. She discusses what her father learned about Malcolm X’s assassination of February 1965 for the new biography, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.

Duration:00:19:17

Lenny Kravitz's First Memoir

10/22/2020
Four-time Grammy-winner Lenny Kravitz joins us to discuss his new memoir, Let Love Rule, in which he reflects on the first 25 years of his life, from childhood to the release of his debut album.

Duration:00:25:11

How WeWork Did NotWork

10/21/2020
New York Magazine contributing editor Reeves Wiedeman joins us to discuss his latest book, Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork, which tells the inside story of the once $47 billion start-up, its 2019 bankruptcy and its founder's subsequent fall from grace.

Duration:00:23:22

City Center's Digital Fall For Dance

10/21/2020
Fall for Dance, City Center's program featuring ensembles from across the country, has become a staple of the fall arts calendar. And, like so much else in 2020, this year it's going digital. City Center's Vice President of Programming, Stanford Makishi gives us a preview of this year's program, including the world premiere of four commissioned pieces.

Duration:00:19:55

Misty Copeland's Children's Book

10/21/2020
Ballerina Misty Copeland, who in 2015 became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theater's 75-year history, joins us to discuss her new children's book Bunheads, the first in a series of picture books inspired by Misty's own early experiences in ballet.

Duration:00:16:42

FULL BIO: 'The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X' (Part 3)

10/21/2020
After he left prison, Malcolm X rose quickly through the ranks of the Nation of Islam, becoming its national spokesman. In the third of five conversations, Tamara Payne explains what drew Malcolm X to the organization and how he in turn recruited others with his fiery speeches; plus, a look at his relationship with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Payne was the principal researcher for the new book, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, which her father Les Payne worked on...

Duration:00:22:24

FULL BIO: 'The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X' (Part 2)

10/20/2020
After his father’s sudden death, Malcolm X was a teenager set adrift. In the second of five conversations, principal researcher Tamara Payne for the new biography, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, describes the impact that being in foster homes had on a young Malcolm X, what took him to Boston and then New York – and how he ended up in jail at the age of 20, where he joined the Nation of Islam.

Duration:00:22:35

Michael Tilson Thomas, an 'American Master'

10/20/2020
11-time Grammy-winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas joins us to discuss the new documentary about his life for PBS American Masters, "Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is" that premieres Friday, October 23 on PBS.

Duration:00:21:18

Kate Has a Plan

10/20/2020
WNYC planning editor Kate Hinds joins us to discuss the stories the newsroom is following this week.

Duration:00:04:08

Meet the Room Rater Duo

10/20/2020
One of the perks of working--and broadcasting--remotely is the voyeuristic thrill of seeing into someone's home. Partners Jessie Bahrey and Claude Taylor, who is also a political activist, have become a Twitter sensation for rating the rooms of pundits and celebs and will join us to talk about this endeavor and their efforts to raise funds for personal protective equipment.

Duration:00:20:13

Kevin Young on African American Poetry Anthology

10/20/2020
Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor at the New Yorker, joins us to discuss editing the new anthology, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song.

Duration:00:19:50

Julie Andrews and Her Daughter on Hollywood Memoir

10/19/2020
Julie Andrews joins us along with her daughter, writer and producer Emma Walton Hamilton, to discuss her memoir Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, now out in paperback. In this New York Times-bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as "Mary Poppins," "The Sound of Music," and "Victor/Victoria."

Duration:00:26:28

FULL BIO: 'The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X' (Part 1)

10/19/2020
Investigative journalist Les Payne spent 28 years working on his biography, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, but died before the book could be completed. This week, we speak with his daughter Tamara Payne, who was his chief research on the project and finished the book. In the first of five conversations, Payne discusses Malcolm X’s early life, when he was Malcolm Little, and how the ideas of Marcus Garvey influenced generations of the Little family as they faced segregation and...

Duration:00:17:20

Walter Winchell Documentary

10/19/2020
Director Ben Loeterman joins us to discuss his documentary "Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip," premiering on PBS American Masters on October 20th. It follows the rise and fall of famed syndicated newspaper and radio columnist Walter Winchell, who invented the hybrid style of journalism — a gossipy combo of scandal and crime, showbiz and politics — that still reigns today.

Duration:00:15:30

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