Movie Date: Your and Our Favorite Scary Movies
From "Hellraiser" to "Halloween," we are in the middle of scary movie season. To some that's a horror; to us, it's a delight. Movie Date podcast hosts Kristen Meinzer and Rafer Guzman gave us some of...
View ArticleThe Takeaway's Halloween Playlist
It could be a tense orchestral crash of instruments ("Thus Sprach Zarathustra"), or held in just a few feverish notes on a piano ("Halloween"). Whatever it is, the music from movies we think of as...
View ArticleHelp Scare Kurt Andersen
Kurt Andersen, writer and host of Studio 360, talks about the show's scary movie contest, plus their Oscars bingo game for Sunday's awards ceremony.Every House Has a History by Charlie Thomson —...
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A Week of Bests: Commencement Speeches, Vocal Ranges, and Scares
This week in "Thanks, Internet!": great commencement speeches, sweet dreams, an artful bot, pop music's best vocal ranges, and a lovely scare. 1. Two Hundred Years Of SpeechesIt's the height of...
View Article11 Scary Movies Made Even Scarier by Classical Music
Saturday, Oct. 31: Tune into WQXR all day for scary classical music for Halloween, culminating Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique at 8 pm.Shrieking violins, plaintive cellos, and spooky percussive sounds...
View ArticleThe Feminist Horror Films You Should Be Watching on Halloween
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.When it comes to picking movies to watch for Halloween, you've got plenty of choices — there's the classic "Frankenstein," plenty of "Scream"...
View ArticleScary Music
In our unsettled moment, people will find ways to mark an unusual Halloween this weekend. It's a time when music - scary music - comes to mind, as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us in this episode of Fishko...
View ArticleHalloween Edition: Brooklyn Trolley Tour, CHVRCHES, 'Reprieve', Scary Movies,...
Brooklyn is full of locations that are said to be haunted... luckily there is a tour that will help you explore these locations from the safety of a trolley. Allison Chase and Matt Zaller, co-founders...
View ArticleScary Movie Recs for Halloween
Ben Yakas, arts and culture editor for Gothamist and WNYC, recommends some spooky movies to watch this weekend, and we take listeners' calls.Some of Ben's picks:"The Terminator" (1984)"Suspiria"...
View Article30 Issues: Who’s The Party of The Working Class?; Monday Morning Midterm...
Coming up on today's show:Republicans have been making inroads with the Democrats' traditional base of working-class voters and people of color. Bryan Mena, reporter with The Wall Street Journal's...
View ArticleYour Halloween Movie Recommendations
Listeners call in to share their favorite Halloween movie and why they watch scary movies.Let The Right One In - the original Swedish version about a child Vampire. Omg that scared me.— Alex Weider...
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