Events - February, 12, 2013

Healthy Aging: Inside & Out - Rebecca C. Brightman, MD; Doris Day, MD; and Vivian Diller, PhD

Gain an understanding of how today’s anti-aging pressures have a strong emotional impact on women’s self-esteem. Learn to shift focus from obsessing about looking ten...

Science/Tech/Health

Technology: Innovations and Expanding Frontiers

It seems like every week a new gadget makes yesterday’s gadget obsolete. Technology is developing at a breathtaking rate. In this program, Walter Isaacson and...

Food & Drink

Mission Chinese

Chef Danny Bowien brings his intuitive smarts to Chinese American standards like fried rice and Kung Pao Chicken. The results are uncanny, both familiar and...

Books, Religion/Spirituality

Garry Wills - Why Priests?: The Real Meaning of the Eucharist

Books

Manil Suri - The City of Devi

From INSIDE NEW YORK - I associate the Upper East Side with Museum Mile and Gossip Girl. As many times as I’ve been thrift shopping,...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Science/Tech/Health

Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics

With Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. This illustrated lecture...

Books, Art/Photo/Design

The Future of Art Book Publishing

In the face of Amazon.com, bookstore closures, self-publishing options, and shrinking library budgets, who is publishing art books and how are they reaching consumers and researchers...

Legal/Politics/Economics, History/NYC

Shall We Overcome? Investigation Discovery Explores Civil Rights Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Henry Schleiff, President & General Manager, Investigation Discovery Kerry Kennedy, Human Rights Activist John Seigenthaler, Former RFK Aide and First Amendment Crusader Carolyn McKinstry, Civil...

Books

Phillip Lopate

Discussing his book To Show and to Tell, and Portrait Inside My Head.

History/NYC

War, Assassination and Justice in Abraham Lincoln's Washington

On Abraham Lincoln's 204th birthday, join James Solomon, the screenwriter of the acclaimed film The Conspirator, and Timothy L. O'Brien, author of the historical thriller...