Terrific City

By Melissa Gira Grant & Cheyenne Picardo

What's Terrific City about?

TERRIFIC CITY is a podcast on the city and screen life of 1970s America, by journalist and author Melissa Gira Grant and filmmaker Cheyenne Picardo. It is made in New York City.

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Terrific City episodes:

11.07.2017
Goodbye City (Times Square Episode 8)
On this episode no mourning for Ruby / "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" / #SayHerName / making Candy complicit in the disposability of other sex workers / "the tricks of the trade" / despondently eating a slice...
10.27.2017
Like Nobody Knows The Rules (Times Square Episode 7)
On this episode The mob's landlords / Mayor Lindsay recruits Archie Bunker / Election Year vice crackdowns / the Public Morals Taskforce / Fantasia & "now the pimps wear blue uniforms" / stealing sex workers' dresses for slumming / "the whore who wants...
10.18.2017
Indoors / Green Doors (Times Square Episode 6)
On this episode Crackdown season's here / everyone's on the take / obscene courtroom boredom / porn defies definition / into the parlors and off the streets / "not really in the holiday spirit" / a weak Mob / a good...
10.12.2017
Disco Overtime (Times Square Episode 5)
On this episode: Theatre raids / proto-disco, all genders, all the time / a safe space, an outlaw space / OT / time-and-a-half at the massage parlor / "white savior Barbie" / Johnny and the rentboys / The Gaiety / The...
10.04.2017
Hustling (Times Square Episode 4)
On this episode A very special gay episode / more temporal hubris / Jean Naté / "What did you use in Vietnam?" / an anti-porn PR gambit / Ebert on Deep Throat / Channel J / soul porn, Ella Baker, Huey Newton /...
09.28.2017
Hardhats and Runaways (Times Square Episode 3)
On this episode You're nobody, Dean Martin / "Hippies vs Hardhats" / Abbie Hoffman is not a bitch / "Lindsay's a Red!" and "the city needs to look good behind him" / getting paid to watch Mildred Pierce / the porn...
09.20.2017
Peeps, Police, and Marquees (Times Square Episode 2)
On this episode Does David Simon not fully understand his own show / Communism? / we called the shag / Edison and one-man peep shows / porn with a soup can of art / pandering feminist catchphrases / goodbye Village Voice /...
09.13.2017
From Port Authority to the Shoeshine Scene (Times Square Episode 1)
On this episode "Nixon is pimp" / What year is it? 1971 / Darlene's tour of the SRO / Candy does some bookkeeping / Franco's Death Wish / Critics agree: "sex work is work" / Ellsberg, paranoia, and the plumbers / the...
09.06.2017
Terrific City (Pilot)
Featuring Our origin story / Why cities, why film and television, why the 1970s / "The Deuce" (inspired by but not limited to) / When the New York Times ran a front page story about there being no prostitution arrests on one...

What's Terrific City about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Terrific City episodes:

Goodbye City (Times Square Episode 8)

Like Nobody Knows The Rules (Times Square Episode 7)

Indoors / Green Doors (Times Square Episode 6)

Disco Overtime (Times Square Episode 5)

Hustling (Times Square Episode 4)

Hardhats and Runaways (Times Square Episode 3)

Peeps, Police, and Marquees (Times Square Episode 2)

From Port Authority to the Shoeshine Scene (Times Square Episode 1)

Terrific City (Pilot)