New School: Arts & Culture

Description: The South Korean drama series Squid Game , released on Netflix in Sept. 2021, became the streaming platform’s most viewed series to date with approximately 142 million household views worldwide in its first 28 days. The series is about individuals in financial debt who agree to participate in deadly children’s games for an enormous cash prize. This survival game genre has been a popul...

The New School is historically unconventional, and has an equally unique mascot. Here is the story of Gnarls the Narwhal, and how their identity represents us, the student body.  Produced by: Jade Welder, Tina Ngyuen, Marin Gross, and Stephen Lehren 

On Sept. 25 2021, the Student Leadership and Involvement team hosted a bike ride event in Central Park. Both faculty and students alike participated in this event, where they expressed how they felt to attend an in-person event after experiencing classes on Zoom for the past year and a half.  Produced By: Michaela Zee, Ally Santana, Olivia Conforti, Tasmia Islam, and Alyse Robinson  Musi...

Content warning: this includes descriptions of eating disorder behaviors and anxiety. Food, exercise and family collide in unexpected ways. Marley Collins talks to her family about food, exercise, and her and her sister's eating disorders. Production and music by Marley Collins. Edited by Andy Hartman. The referenced 1997 study was done by Suzanne W. McNutt et al., published in the Journal of Adol...

When it comes to delivering babies in the good ole USA for Black women, you will find that we are living in two very different America's when you look at the infant mortality rate. Producer Amber Worsley talks with mothers and doulas about their experiences in and outside hospitals in an attempt to find out the secret behind the statistics. Special thanks to Ranjani Chakraborty and Vox for their s...

\Producer Christian Nesfield interviews his grandmother, Ellen Holden, about the history his family, and Orchard Street in Ridgwood, New Jersey where they’ve lived for over a hundred years.

They were chosen because the islands were so remote. Told through personal narratives of young people, we explore the history of the United States' nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. For the Marshallese, life will never be the same. Produced by Calvin Ryerse, edited by Bria Dixon, music by MARK Harmony, performing "Be Mine", produced by Voices Rising.

Fiction plays an important part in most people's everyday lives. Producer Sheyda Parnianpour was inspired by the Oscar Wilde quote 'Life imitates art far more than art imitates life' to explore the role of fiction in the lives of three millennials.

Radio date is a short feature documenting the eclectic, isolating, and humorous experience of Black, queer, nonbinary dating during the CO-VID 19 pandemic. It's meant to reveal my newly acquired light but strange virtual dating life to address the macro phenomenon of Black, queer and trans folk in a digital dating space.

Mother and Daughter is a radio feature by Andy Hartman where she details her gender transition and relates it to her mother's experiences with pregnancy and breast cancer. Produced by Marley Collins and Sarah Montague. Featuring music by Siddhartha Corsus.

Common understanding of Mexican food is far from its authentic actuality. Traditional dishes from south of the border have become appropriated by white restaurateurs and immigrants alike to turn a profit; Mexican cuisine and the culture itself has shifted in order to remain palatable for the US consumer. Produced by: Paul Chevallier, Abigail Connolly, Emily Dosal, David Moore, Heather Wiley

Produced by Jack Irwin, Ariana Martinez, Xander Nazon, and Violet Heppler

Just in time for Mother's Day, we examine an employment bias against mothers who have taken time off to care for their children. Although the return to the workforce is not easy, many mothers still choose to be with their children in the early years and go back to work once their kids are all grown up. Produced by Paul Chevalier.

As we’ve spent more and more time at home, the user base of apps like Tiktok has grown dramatically. We explored the impact that this highly accessible dance platform is having on the dance community.  Produced by Kaiya Lightner, Lu Mejia, Charlotte Damson, Mitch Kelly 

As many people are interacting with less people, social awkwardness has been normalized. Students and essential workers share their socially awkward situations.  Produced by Helen Chappell, Monica Sinaloa, Amanda Deskavich, Ruby Seiwert, Marisa Reif, Monica Sinaloa, and Lexi Lane.

Numerous communities have seen themselves affected creatively and professionally by the Covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing restrictions that have been established. Artists and creatives from different fields share how their practices have changed to adapt to the “new normal.”

Pickles and cultural preservation happenings on the Lower East Side. Reported, Produced, & Mixed by Adina Karp

Diversity in representation after death can be found in both obituaries and archives, but it's not something that happens overnight, and it is not something that happens on it’s own. If death as an act is the only thing that transcends all else, then studying its representation in our society and who we choose to remember could be helpful to understanding our country’s long suppression of diversit...

Street Harassment in NYC by WNSR contributors

Traveling around Europe with your two best friends can be fun, if you know what you're doing. This is a story about the time I almost got lost in Italy four times.

A young woman attempting to find her place and voice in the film industry.

Examining diversity initiatives within archives and obituaries.

57 Years after the Good Friday Experiment gave 20 christian college students the mystical experience of their lives, one professor decides to pay homage to the site, as a place of sacred and religious significance. Special thanks to Christopher "Doc" Kelley Additional audio provided by: MAPS, from Psychedelic Science Conference, 2013