If everyone – everyone! – knows that mercury does horrible things to children, why would anyone weaken the regulations that protect them from exposure? Dominique Browning, co-founder of Moms Clean Air Force, has an answer, and she expounds it eloquently at the Environmental Defense Fund. Music from Stephanie Jenkins and Ben Cosgrove. Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Episode 246: Jane Alexander
A much admired actor, she’s lead the National Endowment for the Arts – when the White House still supported the arts. And education. And clean air. And… what was the question? Right: what about her environmental concerns? She is on the board of the Audubon Society and is the author of Wild Things, Wild Places. … Continue reading »
Episode 245: Gary Shteyngart
Admired for fiction (The Russian Debutante’s Handbook) and non-fiction (Little Failure), he began at age five when his grandmother asked him to write a book about Lenin. “She paid me a piece of cheese for every page I wrote, and I wrote 100 pages. I love cheese.” A conversation at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan with music … Continue reading »
Episode 244: Eddie Brigati
If you’re wildly successful at age six, what do you do next? Eddie Brigati had a string of hit records with the Young Rascals – Good Lovin’, Groovin’, Lonely Too Long – all before 1970. OK, he wasn’t six but he wasn’t near retirement age either. So what did he do with the ensuing 50 … Continue reading »