The Art of Fireworks
We take a behind-the-scenes look at a spectacle that will take place in nearly every city and town across the country this week, with fireworks professional Lee Bonander. Bonander offers a glimpse of...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Beauty in the Sky Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss life without the Internet, June’s must see list of summer TV shows and love 'em or hate...
View ArticleMore New Sounds Covers
It's an hour of cover songs, New Sounds-style, with many familiar tunes in unexpected arrangements. We'll hear Pink Floyd, Stravinsky, Black Sabbath and Satie for this program. Listen as Marco...
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Celebrating the Fourth of July in NYC with Pig Roasts, Urban Foraging, and...
Pig roasts, improv marathons, Revolutionary War tours and urban foraging. There's no shortage of things to do in the city this Independence Day weekend. Here's our shortlist of happenings around...
View ArticleCountdown to Blast-Off: Preparing for the Macy's Fireworks Show in Staten...
At an undisclosed pier in in Staten Island, packaged mortars are dispersed among six barges, nearly all of them covered by colored tarps. The Macy’s logo lines the pier -- plastered on trucks, banners,...
View ArticleWhere to Watch: Prime Fourth of July Fireworks Viewing Spots
On Monday, the 35th Annual Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks will shoot over the Hudson River from six barges. The sky will light up between 20th and 55th Sts. in Manhattan. You can enjoy the show from...
View ArticleHow To Score A Fireworks Display
Choreographing a fireworks display “is just like a ballet or a Broadway show,” explained Bill Schermerhorn, the creative director of Macy's 4th of July Fireworks show. “You think of the fireworks as...
View ArticleWNYC's Guide on Where to Ring in the New Year
Out with the old, in with the new! There's no shortage of places to celebrate the early hours of 2012 in New York City. Here are some of them that caught our eye:News Year's Ball Drop in Times Square...
View ArticleMore New Sounds Covers
It's an hour of cover songs, New Sounds-style, with many familiar tunes in unexpected arrangements. We'll hear Pink Floyd, Stravinsky, Black Sabbath and Satie for this program. Listen as Marco...
View ArticleFireworks Show on the Hudson Sets off West vs. East Divide
At approximately 9:20 p.m. on Wednesday, four barges in the Hudson River will set off more than 50,000 pounds of fireworks.The spectacle of lights will feature new shapes choreographed to music, thanks...
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Happy 4th of July! PIC: Fireworks Over Infrastructure
The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (image courtesy of NY MTA)TN will be spending the holiday watching fireworks explode near large pieces of our nation's transportation infrastructure. We'll be back on July 5th!
View ArticleThe Science Behind Fireworks
The first evidence of man-made fireworks in North America came during the 1200s—a few centuries after the Chinese, who are generally considered the inventors of gunpowder.For chemists, this time of...
View ArticleFirework Show Returns to Brooklyn Bridge ... with a Bigger Bang
Fireworks are returning to the Brooklyn Bridge for the 4th of July holiday, but this time, the bang will be bigger.Macy's last shot a handful of fireworks off the Brooklyn Bridge in 1995. This year...
View ArticleStoryCorps 382: Not to Blame
Aja David and her younger sister, Kai Leigh Harriott, remember the night Kai was hit by a stray bullet and paralyzed from the chest down. They spoke with their mother Tonya David.
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Your Guide to Fireworks for this 4th of July
From the Dahlia to the Willow, here's a guide to the staples of any fireworks display according to one of New York's most enduring dynasties!Phil Grucci, President of Fireworks by Grucci, has seen...
View ArticleUnderstanding those 4th of July Missiles That Explode Into Colors: Fireworks
Each 4th of July many of us crowd on rooftops, waterfronts and around televisions to watch the explosive magic of fireworks. Although large, professional pyrotechnic displays are a favorite, some...
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Fireworks explosion in India kills more than 100 attending religious festival
A volunteer shows the face of a victim, who died in a fire at the temple, to a relative to identify, outside a mortuary of a hospital in Kollam in the southern state of Kerala, India, April 10, 2016....
View ArticleEpisode 36: Fear and the NRA, and a Hymn for Orlando
Mike Weisser is a lifelong N.R.A. member and former gun dealer who blogs as Mike the Gun Guy, but he is critical about how the N.R.A. uses fear to further its pro-gun agenda. The New Yorker staff...
View ArticleMy Favorite Fireworks, by Jack Handey
Viking helmet of death? Sparklers for babies? Porno rockets? Nobody knows how to have fun with explosives like Jack Handey, the creator of Saturday Night Live’s “Deep Thoughts.”
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Mexican fireworks town has a history of explosions
Firefighters and rescue personnel stand near a destroyed house after an explosion at the San Pablito fireworks market in Tultepec, Mexico on Dec. 20. Photo by Edgard Garrido/ReutersAn explosion that...
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News Wrap: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump condemns Berlin attack
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThe post News Wrap: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump condemns Berlin attack appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View ArticlePew! Pop! Pow! Where to See Fireworks Tonight
Nothing says "Happy Birthday America!" like controlled, Technicolor explosions in the sky.Want to catch some patriotic pyrotechnics tonight? Here are a few local options.Macy's 4th of July Fireworks...
View ArticleFireworks on Your Block: A Joy or a Nuisance?
It's that time of the year when people set off their own, small fireworks displays on the streets and in their backyards.Consumer fireworks are illegal to buy, sell, use or transport in New York; in...
View ArticleDIY Fireworks In The Bronx (But Not Everyone's Cheering)
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers will gather in on rooftops, in city parks and all along the East River to watch this year's Macy's Fourth of July fireworks. Others will try with all their might to...
View ArticleAs Fireworks Complaints Explode, One Community Debates Best Response
Fireworks have been lighting up the skies in recent weeks, and also irritating many New Yorkers. The noise is triggering a deluge of complaints. The NYPD says they received nearly 13-thousand 911 calls...
View ArticleUnited States of Conspiracy
For much of the past month, a new addition has joined the audioscape of cities across the country: fireworks. Loud ones. Keep-you-up-all-night-ones. And during those sleepless hours in the dark of...
View ArticleFear of mass shootings leads to instances of public panic in NYC
At the Pride March last weekend, fireworks set off in Washington Square Park sounded to some like gunshots, leading to a terrifying, chaotic stampede of hundreds of people. “I ran in a panic, but...
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