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Zach Iscol served in Iraq as a Marine and is now commissioner of New York City’s Department of Emergency Management. “We are always activated. We’re always responding to stuff,” he says. How to prepare for the worst.
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Patrick Page’s solo show, All the Devils Are Here, explores Shakespeare’s villains. Among his many other celebrated roles—Hades in Hadestown, Scar in The Lion King, Max in The Sound of Music, only some of whom are villainous (your call).
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How did we allow the destruction of the Colorado River? “We think that water comes from the tap,” says photographer Pete McBride. “We’ve lost the idea that water comes from natural systems.” We discuss McBride’s book, “The Colorado River: Chasing Water. Then weep. Then fight. Then drink.”
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Environmental epidemiologist Virginia Rauh knows the dismal effects of pesticides on the young, yet she loves to bring her students to the neonatal intensive care unit. “The NICU is a place of hope, and little babies are very, very cute.”
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Eddie Izzard is eager that her solo performance of “Hamlet” — yes, all the parts — be a pleasure accessible to everyone. “Shakespeare is presented to people these days as: this is good for you. I’ve heard the term ‘spinach theater.’” Izzard also talks to us about Shakespeare and Covent Garden.
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“I don’t like dance,” says this choreographer, “but we saw the bull riders at Madison Square Garden and, boy, I really wanted to get on that bull.” Her combination of disdain and desire results in an exciting and surprising dance.
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When someone yo-yos between government and commerce, the word “self-serving” hovers, but it is heartening when urban planner Marc Norman moves between academia and enterprise, between theory and practice, putting his ideas to the test.
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“I am Juan de Parejeo,” Ballet Hispánico’s artistic director says of the Afro-Spanish painter enslaved by Velazquez. Multiple identities? No. One artist fascinated by the life of another, the subject of Vilaro’s new dance work.
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When Europeans take one of his tours, preservationist Michael Henry Adams goes to work to reconcile the past, the present and the Harlem of their imaginations.
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In 1928 antimatter was discovered by Paul Dirac and was confirmed real seven years later. We find ourselves in a matter dominated universe. Tune in to hear why the tranquility of space, in reality, is not so tranquil, and about positrons.
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Len Elmore was on the Knicks during the playoffs: “We’re playing the Celtics, and I get this letter, and I was accepted.” To Harvard Law. Elmore also talks about College Park, Md. and more basketball.
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The gender balance in Rachel Wax’s profession is disheartening, she says: “It has one of the smallest percentages of women. I mean the ratio is astounding.” U.S. Senator? Catholic priest? Not quite that bad. She is a magician. And things are improving.