The ARChive of Contemporary Music in Manhattan has a collection of popular music that rivals that of the Library of Congress: more than three million recordings. The archive is independent and gets no money from state or local governments. Because of rising rents, the archive is being forced to vacate its headquarters. But news of its predicament brought offers from all over the country and the archive has just announced that it will be moving to two different locations outside of the city.

Marine Sgt. Brett D'Alessandro and his partner Alexa Modero started the non-profit Backpacks For Life in 2014. The couple wanted to work with homeless veterans who are struggling and don't have any knowledge of the resources available to them. D'Alesandro and Modero came into the studios of WBGO to speak with News Director Doug Doyle about Backpacks For Life and why they've been able to help so many veterans over the years. After his 7-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2014. Sgt. experiencing

In HG Wells’ original 1897 novel, The Invisible Man , the central character, Griffin, is a medical student turned optical scientist who’s successfully unlocked the key to how we see—and turned himself invisible. Irreversibly. When he arrives at a country inn wrapped in bandages, wearing a country hat and a fake pink nose, and toting a complete laboratory setup to try to reverse-engineer his way back to visible, he is highly unpleasant by English country inn, family standards. Wells laid out the

The New York Red Bulls's home opener is Sunday (February 29) against FC Cincinnati. The excitement about all the fan improvements inside Red Bull Arena is matched by the optimism surrounding the boosted development around the stadium in Harrison. Red Bulls GM Marc de Grandpre joins host Doug Doyle for an emotional edition of SportsJam where the Montreal native talks about soccer, the area's growth and how his family still is his top priority. Marc de Grandpre rejoined the Red Bulls in 2014 and

If the youth ran the city of Newark, what would they change? Students of Great Oaks Legacy Charter High School are answering this question. Sophia Domeville is educating the youth in Newark on how they can create the world the way they would like to see it and using art as the gateway to realize what is possible. While in South Africa, Domeville, established the framework for a cultural immersion program. The Global arts program is focused on developing critical thinking skills through art

Pianist Adar Broshi died at 19 on April 5, 2019, after two and a half years of fighting a rare childhood cancer. During that heroic battle, Broshi wrote and recorded music. Some of those songs — combining feelings of joy, uncertainty and the will to fight on — appear on a new album by the Avi Adrian Trio, Songs From A Dream: The Music of Adar Broshi . The album was produced by Adar's father, Oded Broshi. Oded, who is also a musician, sat down with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle to talk about his

Laurence Mathieu-Leger and Bryant McBride's critically acclaimed documentary Willie is now airing on ESPN in celebration of Black History Month. It's the incredible story of trailblazer and Hockey Hall of Famer Willie O'Ree. Mathieu-Leger's first feature length documentary about the NHL's first black player has already won several awards during its festival run, including the Hot Docs Film Festival's Top 5 Audience Favorite and the Downtown LA Film Festival's Best Sports Documentary. Laurence

The Inheritance , a new play on Broadway that focuses on the legacy of the AIDS epidemic, will close on March 15. Theater critic Michael Bourne caught the show just in time. Click above to hear his review.

Obie Award-winning actor and director Brandon J. Dirden ( King Hedley II, Seven Guitars ) returns to Two River Theater in Red Bank, N.J., to direct the theater's sixth production from playwright August Wilson's The American Century Cycle. Radio Golf is the Cycle's 10th and final play, set in 1997 in Pittsburgh's Hill District. It will run from Feb. 29 through March 22 at Two River's Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater in Red Bank, N.J. Dirden and award-winning actor Wayne DeHart, who portrays Elder

The Second Stage production of Grand Horizons at the Helen Hayes on Broadway, stars Jane Alexander and James Cromwell as a disgruntled mother and father. Click above to hear WBGO's theater critic Michael Bourne's review.