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(Airs 04/12/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Another week goes by without a state budget agreement as lawmakers negotiate affordable housing and tenant protections, we’ll get an update on the immigrant situation from Lauren DesRosiers, incoming Director of the Immigration Law Clinic and Senator Gillibrand calls on her peers to reauthorize the Northern Border Regional Commission to promote economic development.

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.

The full moon is of course the most celebrated lunar phase, and for good reason. It’s the brightest, and it’s the only phase that’s out all night long.

“James,” by Percival Everett, is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view of enslaved person, Jim. While many narrative set pieces of “Huckleberry Finn” remain in place, Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, May 4th, 2024.

(Airs 05/10/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: A state Supreme Court judge strikes down New York’s Equal Rights Amendment, the state legislature acts on climate change and environmental bills, we’ll talk with Assembly Member Deborah Glick, Chair of the Committee on Environmental Conservation about the negotiations, and some are calling for the removal of ships from the bottom of Lake Champlain.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, May 11th, 2024

“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.

White dwarf stars happen to be some of the strangest stars in our galaxy. These nights they can appear during the next clear evening at nightfall orbiting our closest celestial neighbors: the Dog Star Sirius and Procyon, the main star of the Canis Minor constellation.

Catch the crescent Moon hovering next to a bright star. It’s a famous one because it’s in the zodiac, in the constellation Gemini.