Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

On Friday’s show, Leonard talks to Italian food expert Lou Di Palo, the owner of his favorite cheese shop, Di Palo's Fine Foods in Little Italy. The food blog Serious Eats described Di Palo's Fine Foods a “100-year-old Italian specialty market with incredible mozzarella and fresh porchetta. Expect long waits, but they're worth it.” Chef Daniel Boulud has called Di Palo one of the seven wonders of New York. “Di Palo’s stories come from the gathering of the food, the discovery of where it was made,” wrote Kenneth Rapoza of Forbes. “It’s not so much about the taste, but what makes it taste that way in the first place. So it all inevitably comes down to the air and the water and the grass and the sheepherder he’s met that led him to the perfect little farm, that made the perfect little cheese, somewhere south of Trentino.” Don’t miss Leonard’s conversation with this giant of Italian cuisine

Dr. Ted Rueter started Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet while he was a political science professor at UCLA. “I found UCLA to be the loudest campus I had ever been to and Los Angeles to be the loudest city I had ever been to,” Dr. Rueter told the Boston Voyager back in 2017. “I was teaching a class on political advocacy. I recruited 14 students to work on reducing noise on campus. We called ourselves Noise Free UCLA. We wrote a letter to the chancellor, identifying 44 sources of unnecessary noise on campus. We met with three high-ranking administrators on campus; they agreed to make some changes to reduce noise. We also hosted a Los Angeles noise summit.” On today’s “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Dr. Rueter and Leonard talk about noise pollution in New York City, particularly that caused by motorcycles.

Dr. Ted Rueter started Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet while he was a political science professor at UCLA. “I found UCLA to be the loudest campus I had ever been to and Los Angeles to be the loudest city I had ever been to,” Dr. Rueter told the Boston Voyager back in 2017. “I was teaching a class on political advocacy. I recruited 14 students to work on reducing noise on campus. We called ourselves Noise Free UCLA. We wrote a letter to the chancellor, identifying 44 sources of unnecessary noise on campus. We met with three high-ranking administrators on campus; they agreed to make some changes to reduce noise. We also hosted a Los Angeles noise summit.” On today’s “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Dr. Rueter and Leonard talk about noise pollution in New York City, particularly that caused by motorcycles.

Dr. Ted Rueter started Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet while he was a political science professor at UCLA. “I found UCLA to be the loudest campus I had ever been to and Los Angeles to be the loudest city I had ever been to,” Dr. Rueter told the Boston Voyager back in 2017. “I was teaching a class on political advocacy. I recruited 14 students to work on reducing noise on campus. We called ourselves Noise Free UCLA. We wrote a letter to the chancellor, identifying 44 sources of unnecessary noise on campus. We met with three high-ranking administrators on campus; they agreed to make some changes to reduce noise. We also hosted a Los Angeles noise summit.” On today’s “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Dr. Rueter and Leonard talk about noise pollution in New York City, particularly that caused by motorcycles.

On Wednesday’s show, Leonard speaks to Itamar Kubovy, the executive producer for Pilobolus dance company. The company describes its mission as being to “create, perform, and preserve dances, applying the collaborative creative methods of Pilobolus; expand and diversify audiences through projects of all types and scales in live performance, film, and digital media, characterized by the qualities of our namesake fungus—adventurous, adaptive, athletic, surprising and revealing of beauty in unexpected places and to Teach dancers, non-dancers, and organizations how to harness the creative potential of groups using Pilobolus’s methods.” Don’t miss a rare glimpse inside the creative process for this one-of-a-kind group of dancers and choreographers.

On Wednesday’s show, Leonard speaks to Itamar Kubovy, the executive producer for Pilobolus dance company. The company describes its mission as being to “create, perform, and preserve dances, applying the collaborative creative methods of Pilobolus; expand and diversify audiences through projects of all types and scales in live performance, film, and digital media, characterized by the qualities of our namesake fungus—adventurous, adaptive, athletic, surprising and revealing of beauty in unexpected places and to Teach dancers, non-dancers, and organizations how to harness the creative potential of groups using Pilobolus’s methods.” Don’t miss a rare glimpse inside the creative process for this one-of-a-kind group of dancers and choreographers.

On Wednesday’s show, Leonard speaks to Itamar Kubovy, the executive producer for Pilobolus dance company. The company describes its mission as being to “create, perform, and preserve dances, applying the collaborative creative methods of Pilobolus; expand and diversify audiences through projects of all types and scales in live performance, film, and digital media, characterized by the qualities of our namesake fungus—adventurous, adaptive, athletic, surprising and revealing of beauty in unexpected places and to Teach dancers, non-dancers, and organizations how to harness the creative potential of groups using Pilobolus’s methods.” Don’t miss a rare glimpse inside the creative process for this one-of-a-kind group of dancers and choreographers.

Eco-designer and public educator Wendy Brawer created the Green Map System, the first resource of its kind back in 1992, to raise local awareness of environmental issues in the New York area. In the years since, green maps have become a critical tool for conservationists around the world. Charles Krezell is the founder and president of LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) and is a member of DeColores Community Garden on East 8th Street, where he has been an active East Village gardener since 1996. In this show, Wendy and Charles tell Leonard about some projects that environmentalists are engaged in right in our backyard.

Eco-designer and public educator Wendy Brawer created the Green Map System, the first resource of its kind back in 1992, to raise local awareness of environmental issues in the New York area. In the years since, green maps have become a critical tool for conservationists around the world. Charles Krezell is the founder and president of LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) and is a member of DeColores Community Garden on East 8th Street, where he has been an active East Village gardener since 1996. In this show, Wendy and Charles tell Leonard about some projects that environmentalists are engaged in right in our backyard.

Eco-designer and public educator Wendy Brawer created the Green Map System, the first resource of its kind back in 1992, to raise local awareness of environmental issues in the New York area. In the years since, green maps have become a critical tool for conservationists around the world. Charles Krezell is the founder and president of LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) and is a member of DeColores Community Garden on East 8th Street, where he has been an active East Village gardener since 1996. In this show, Wendy and Charles tell Leonard about some projects that environmentalists are engaged in right in our backyard.