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November 1, 2024News, Podcasts

A Nice Town

On our latest episode, we revisit the poet Dorothy Parker’s famous quip, that New York “will be a nice town if they ever get it finished” from two perspectives.
August 1, 2024Podcasts

We Are Family: NYC’s Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Opens

Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague celebrated the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center.
May 13, 2024Podcasts

Saving and Savoring the Planet, New York Style

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped to inspire environmental awareness and climate activism in the United States. This spring of 2024, we wish to be anything but silent. On this […]
March 21, 2024Podcasts

NYC: Women Make Theatre

For Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating women’s contribution to the theatre, where they have had a dramatic presence since classical times and a professional presence as actors since the 17th century.
December 23, 2023Podcasts

Happy Holidays From Local Switchboard NYC

On this episode, Local Switchboard's Sarah Montague talks with Lauren Keating, adapter and director of "A Christmas Carol" at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey; and Jordan Gass-Poore', host of Local Switchboard NYC, sits down with Regine L. Sawyer, a New York City-based comics writer, editor, and the founder of Women in Comics Collective International.
October 30, 2023Podcasts

October Fests

This month on the show, we feature two different ways of celebrating New York and honoring New Yorkers. It’s the 50th anniversary of the iconic Village Halloween Parade, and Sarah Montague talked with director Jeanne Fleming about the beautiful, elegiac tone of this year’s event. And the documentary production house Radio Diaries brings us stories from Hart Island, a little-known burial ground in the Bronx. Managing Producer Nellie Gilles talks about the evolution of the series.
December 20, 2022Podcasts

Voices Raised In Song & Protest

It’s the holidays: friends, family, gifts and gelt, tree lightings, and ‘good will towards men.’ Not so fast. Our brief show for this season does indeed include an uplifting tree […]
July 21, 2021Podcasts

Closed Doors

On this episode we say goodbye to spaces lost during the pandemic, as part of a new series. First, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague gets a tour of her old apartment […]
June 28, 2021Podcasts

Pride Special

On this episode, we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Local Switchboard’s Jordan Gass-Poore’ speaks with Eric Marcus, founder and host of the podcast Making Gay History, and […]
December 19, 2020Podcasts

New York City In Changing Times

Local Switchboard’s Betsy Laken in conversation with local theater director Adrienne Campbell-Holt on the resiliency of New York City’s performing arts community. And as we prepare for a new presidential […]