If you’ve watched movies over the past few decades, chances are you’d recognize character actor Luis Guzman. In one of his most memorable roles, Guzman played an ex-con’s sidekick in the 1993 movie Carlito’s Way . Guzman has acted in more than a hundred films and dozens of TV shows. Born in Puerto Rico, Guzman grew up in New York and lived there till 1995 when he moved his family to Vermont. WBGO’s Jon Kalish visited Guzman this summer in Vermont and brings us this story on the actor's

Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 8pm, The Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn presents its mainstage fall presentation with 12 Angry Men...and Women: The Weight of the Wait in partnership with The New Press. 12 Angry Men...and Women will be streamed live via YouTube from New York City's very first Black Lives Matter mural with 159 names of men, women and children killed by acts of racially motivated violence. The mural is located on Fulton Street between New York and Brooklyn Avenues. Select

WBGO News Director Doug Doyle speaks with WBGO Journal reporter Bob Hennelly DOYLE: It was 19 years ago this week that two airliners ploughed into the World Trade Center and forever altered our world. On that day, close to 3,000 people perished, including 343 firefighters who were killed when the WTC towers collapsed. In the years since, the death toll from that dark day has continued to climb and most likely has exceeded the number of deaths on the day of the attack as a consequence of the

The September (10) edition of Ask Governor Murphy focused the reopening of New Jersey schools this past week and the proposed state budget from Governor Murphy. Governor Murphy joined AGM host Nancy Solomon from his home, practicing social distancing. WBGO Statehouse Reporter Joe Hernandez also remotely joined the program. AGM is a WBGO News production in collaboration with WHYY and WNYC. Click above to hear the entire program.

DD: Our film critic, Harlan Jacobson, doesn’t work on Labor Day has always graced us with his annual Labor Day Address to the Nation to explain why he doesn’t work on Labor Day. Things are different this year right Harlan? HJ: Lately, discipline about what I watch has broken down. The 9.5-hour Polish TV series, The Decalogue , is from 1989, 10-chapters, each based on one of the Ten Commandments. It was originally a New Yorker Films release andi s part of my Criterion DVD collection. It’s rated

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports looks at how NYC and New Jersey are preparing for the opening of schools and businesses.

Dr. Richard Besser, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting Director of the CDC during the Obama Administration spoke with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle about his concerns over the national reponse to COVID-19, In an op-ed recently published by CNN, Dr. Besser writes about the urgent need to reassess our current health insurance system. Besser says as healthcare needs swell amid the pandemic, tens of millions of people have been left exposed and uncared for.

Monmouth University President Dr. Patrick Leahy recently celebrated his first anniversary in West Long Branch. Dr. Leahy couldn't imagine what he would have in store with COVID-19 creating havoc with scheduels and learning during his first year at Monmouth University. Leahy, the 10th President at Monmouth, recently spoke with WBGO News intern Tyra Brooks about plans for the Fall Semester. Click above to hear the entire conversation on the WBGO Journal.

Gyms in New Jersey can reopen on Tuesday September 1 but with plenty of restrictions. They’ll be at 25% of capacity, masks will be required while working out, machines will be six feet apart and all face the same direction. Foot traffic will also move in one direction. Billy Olson, a Planet Fitness franchise owner who operates 18 gyms in New Jersey, said they’re beefing up the cleaning as well. “We also have higher intensity cleaning solutions so that is gonna destroy this virus,” he said, “and

Riptide Partners, a New York based consulting business that offers full-service Customer Experience solutions for sports teams and venue operators, has unveiled its recent survey of actual New York area event attendees. The survey reveals a much faster return to event timeline for consumers than has been widely discussed. Riptide Partners co-ounder Rob Comstock says the survey is the first, and most comprehensive, study of actual event attendees in the New York area since the Pandemic shutdown