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  1. FutureCast: Re-imagining the Suburbs

    On December 17th 2009 Jerry Michalski hosted IFTF’s second FutureCast with Eric Corey Freed, Allison Arieff, and June Williamson to discus the changing suburban landscape.

    Eric Corey Freed is director of Urban Re:vision, founder of organicARCHITECT, and author of numerous books including Green Building for Dummies. He is a leader in green buildings and socially responsible design. Freed is also a judge for Reburbia, a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs.

    Allison Arieff writes the "By Design: column for the NY Times and is Food and Shelter Ambassador for GOOD. She is former Senior Content Lead for IDEO and continues to consult on media, sustainability, and design for organizations including Urban Revision. She was Editor in Chief of Dwell from 2002-2006, as well as their founding Senior Editor. In addition, she is author books Prefab and Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America.

    June Williamson is a professor of architecture at New York City College and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, a guidebook for redesigning and redeveloping suburban cities to meet our current demographic, technological, and economic needs.

    http://www.iftf.org/node/3230

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  2. Junot Diaz reads Edwidge Danticat

    Junot Diaz reads Edwidge Danticat’s "Water Child."

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  3. Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life

    The Times of London called Raymond Carver the "Chekhov of Middle America." Carver’s tremendous influence on subsequent writers and the short story form is legendary. We discuss his life and work with Carol Sklenicka, author of the new biography, "Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life."

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kqedforum/~3/HCs0WA76zAo/R912071000

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  4. LIVE from the NYPL & The Aspen Institute Present: Capitalism and the Future

    The President of the Aspen Institute, Walter Isaacson joined by Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money , Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, and Nassim Taleb, scholar of randomness and risk and author of The Black Swan together will examine:

    What will the American economic system look like in the months and years ahead?

    Who are the innovators currently shaping the future?

    What will be the role of business in that future?

    http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=5850

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  5. What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

    The list of challenges facing the world is proliferating rapidly from climate change to nuclear proliferation and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. In this public dialogue hosted by Global Policy, a new innovative and interdisciplinary journal, Chris Patten and Professor David Held will discuss what we know in each of these areas and how progress can be made.

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  6. Interview with The Wire’s Bubbles and Bunk: Andre Royo and Wendell Pierce

    Jesse is joined by Wendell Pierce ("Bunk," top) and Andre Royo ("Bubbles," bottom) from HBO’s brilliant crime drama The Wire. The Wire isn’t just another cop show — it’s an investigation of contemporary urban America that uses the drug trade as a lens to get at even larger issues. Royo and Pierce discuss what its like to authentically portray urban life, and whether a white writer can capture the largely black experience of inner-city urban life in Baltimore.

    http://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/podcast-wires-bubbles-and-bunk-andre-royo-and-wendell-pierce

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  7. “Mad Men” Creator Matthew Weiner

    For the second year running, top honors at the Emmys for best dramatic series went to an AMC cable show set in a New York ad agency in the early 1960s.

    The visuals of AMC’s “Mad Men” are all skinny ties and bullet bras — buttoned-down corporate America smoking and drinking and dancing on the edge of what we know would be assassinations and war and 1960s cultural revolution to come.

    Its world is white, sexist, racist, homophobic, shadowed by fear of nuclear war — and compelling, right now, in 2009.

    This hour, On Point: A conversation with Matthew Weiner, creator of “Mad Men.”

    http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/09/mad-men-creator-matthew-weiner

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  8. On Gabriel García Márquez

    Gerald Martin has written the first comprehensive biography of acclaimed Columbian novelist Gabriel García Márquez. It’s called Gabriel García Márquez.

    http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/05/27/segments/132841

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  9. On Point: Assessing the American Future (with Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson)

    The British know something about rise and fall. Their Edward Gibbon wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Their own empire came and went.

    Now, two big British historians and thinkers who live in the United States are thinking hard about the American future.

    Simon Schama says he’s in love with America, and sees the makings of potential renewal emerging right now. Niall Ferguson admires America too, and sees — even so — the makings of disaster around us.

    http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/05/assessing-the-american-future

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  10. BackstoryRadio.org - Grave Subjects: A History of Death and Mourning

    "On Memorial Day, we pay public tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for our country. But how do we live with the memory of the dead the rest of the year?

    In this hour, the History Guys explore Americans’ changing attitudes about death. A Gold Star Mother explains why she thinks there should be more media coverage of military deaths in Iraq. Historian Drew Gilpin Faust talks about how the Civil War altered the American way of dying. And BackStory’s own Ed Ayers tours Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery — and visits his own gravesite"

    From http://www.backstoryradio.org/2009/05/grave-subjects-a-history-of-death-and-mourning/

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