2020 Holiday Specials from WNYC ❄

Listeners' Favorite Takeout Spots🍕 [View this email in your browser]( During the last year, WNYC has been here for you with the news, analysis and community these times require. Your support makes this work possible. With 2020 drawing to a close, there are only a few days left to make a charitable contribution to support WNYC this year. [Donate today to keep WNYC strong in 2021](. Thank you. [This Week on WNYC]( Happy Holidays from WNYC! This week, enjoy festive specials to celebrate the spirit of the season. Listen to new episodes from our podcasts. Check out a list of your fellow listeners' favorite takeout spots. And add your voice to WNYC's 2020 audio time capsule. Get regular updates on the coronavirus crisis on [Gothamist.com]( and listen on WNYC 93.9 FM, AM 820 and [WNYC.org](. Featured [A pedestrian walks past shuttered small businesses in Crown Heights.] [Remembering NYC Businesses Lost to COVID]( As part of [WNYC's 2020 Time Capsule]( Brian takes listener calls to commemorate the beloved restaurants, retail and small businesses closed due to COVID-19 this year. [The Brian Lehrer Show]( [Who Owns the Future?]( On the Media examines the antitrust case against Facebook, the "Real Facebook Oversight Board" and our lives under surveillance capitalism. [On the Media]( [The Racist History of Georgia’s Senate Runoff]( Kai Wright looks into the history of runoff elections in Georgia, what might have changed in 2020, and how Black organizers may have finally slipped the knot that Jim Crow tied around democracy in the state. [The United States of Anxiety]( [Takeout Call-In]( Alison Stewart takes calls from listeners about their favorite takeout spots in New York. Check out the full list. [All of It]( [Pornhub Cracks Down on Child Sex Abuse Videos]( Tanzina Vega speaks with Nicolas Kristof of The New York Times about his recent investigation into Pornhub's history of videos showing sexual abuse. [The Takeaway]( [MTA Avoids Doomsday Cuts for Now]( The MTA will receive over $4 billion as part of the recently passed federal stimulus package, sparing it from catastrophic cuts. [Gothamist]( Stay on top of Gothamist's updates on the city's response to COVID-19 [here](. ['Consider This' podcast title logo] [Make Sense of the Day's News in 20 Minutes]( Today, WNYC's Rebeca Ibarra and Greg David, economics reporter at The City, look into what New Yorkers are and are not getting from the $900 billion federal pandemic relief package. Consider This, a daily podcast from NPR and WNYC, offers a quick, in-depth take on the day's news, with national coverage from NPR and essential local stories from the WNYC newsroom. A new episode drops every weekday at 5pm. [Subscribe to your local edition of Consider This]( Holiday Specials [Photo of holiday lights] Stream on WNYC.org and WQXR.org Holiday Music from WNYC and WQXR Celebrate the best of the season with festive 24-hour streams dedicated to holiday and wintertime favorites. [WNYC Holiday Standards]( | [WQXR Holiday Channel]( Listen any time on WNYC.org Paul Winter’s Annual Winter Solstice Celebration This special, hosted by John Schaefer, celebrates the return of the sun and the warming of the heart with the 40th annual performance of The Paul Winter Consort at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. [Holiday Specials 2020]( Christmas Day • 10–11 am • 93.9 FM • AM 820 Tinsel Tales Joy, hope and childhood memories overflow as NPR voices, past and present, tell stories of the season. Hosted by Lynn Neary. [Holiday Specials 2020]( Christmas Day • noon • 93.9 FM • AM 820 Jazz Night in America: A Holiday Celebration The perfect complement of swinging holiday classics featuring The Sherman Irby Sextet, recorded live at Dizzy's Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center. [Holiday Specials 2020]( Christmas Day • 1 pm • 93.9 FM • AM 820 Joy to the World — A Holiday in Pink The "little orchestra" Pink Martini bedecks the airwaves with festive holiday songs from across the globe. Hosted by Ari Shapiro of All Things Considered. [Holiday Specials 2020]( SAT • 3 pm • 93.9 FM • AM 820 A Season's Griot Host Madafo Lloyd Wilson celebrates Kwanzaa through tales and songs of African American and African peoples. [Holiday Specials 2020]( SUN • 7 pm • 93.9 FM • AM 820 WNYC Time Capsule Special Join Brian Lehrer live and contribute to [WNYC's 2020 Audio Time Capsule](. Call in and leave a message to yourself, the city, or someone you love, to hear 10 years from now. [Holiday Specials 2020]( WED, DEC 30 • 8 pm • 93.9 FM • AM 820 The Kitchen Sisters: Archiving the Now Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand hosts compelling stories of grit, hope and possibility. [Holiday Specials 2020]( THU, DEC 31 • 9 pm • 93.9 FM • AM 820 The Third Coast Festival: Best of the Best 2020 Listen to award-winning radio stories from around the world and hear interviews with some of the producers. [Holiday Specials 2020]( Events [headshots of Ophira Eisenberg, Adam Wade and Angel Yau] Tonight at 7pm, join WNYC's Jim O'Grady for [Yuletide Tales]( — a night of holiday hilarity and storytelling featuring Ophira Eisenberg (Ask Me Another), Adam Wade, Angel Yau, Andy Christie and others. --------------------------------------------------------------- January 7 at 7pm, the Get Lit with All of It book club, in partnership with New York Public Library, brings author Jonathan Lethem, host Alison Stewart and readers together for a [livestream conversation and audience Q&A]( around his novel Motherless Brooklyn. Music from the band, 75 Dollar Bill, and performers from Lincoln Center. January 14 at 7pm, trailblazing string quartet ETHEL joins New Sounds host John Schaefer for a night of [music, premieres and conversation](. January 25 at 8pm, The Greene Space and the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) present [First Pressed]( — a dive into the world of olive oil, that explores production, sustainability, flavor, fraud and more. Order premium tickets by January 14 to receive a tin of Casa Caponetti olive oil from the 2020 harvest. All livestream events and encore video streams of The Greene Space "Ever-Greenes" will continue to be available free for on-demand viewing at [thegreenespace.org]( [Facebook]( and [YouTube](. Podcasts From WNYC Studios [Photo of protesters at an ACT UP Ashes Action in Washington D.C. in 1992] [The Ashes on the Lawn]( In the early 1990s, the AIDS epidemic had been around for a decade, with still no end in sight. Radiolab reporter Tracie Hunte goes to the intersection of two very different protests aimed at making people actually pay attention. 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