Episode #1111
Chieftains, Applebroog, Goldberger
Friday, March 12, 2010
Kurt Andersen talks with the Chieftains' Paddy Moloney about the band's new record, San Patricio. It pays tribute to the real-life battalion of Irish-American soldiers who deserted the U.S. Army to fight for the Mexicans. An artist in her eighties rediscovers drawings she did forty years ago. In the Utah desert, a scrappy team of scientists attempts to simulate life on Mars. And The New Yorker's architecture critic Paul Goldberger gets us to look at the city in a whole new way.
The High Line is a new promenade-style park 30 feet above Manhattan's streets.
(Michael Guerriero)
The City From Three Stories Up
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger's new book is called Why Architecture Matters. To talk about that idea, Kurt and Paul headed to the High Line, a formerly dilapidated train track thirty feet above the street that was recently transformed into an extraordinary public park.
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Life on Mars
Though President Obama has spoken of a new commitment to NASA, getting humans to Mars still looks a long way off. Undeterred, a group of scientists and engineers created the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah to simulate life on the red planet. We sent reporter
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