City Portraits: Recent Episodes

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A joint venture of Thirteen.org and Capital New York.

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THIRTEEN and Capital New York look at the New York ferries, and the latest argument for once again making boats a practical means of transportation in New York: safety.

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THIRTEEN and Capital New York report on the status of the Gowanus Canal through interviews with the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club and the EPA.

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THIRTEEN and Capital New York interview big-band jazz composer and bird enthusiast Maria Schneider.

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THIRTEEN and Capital New York report on the State Senate contest in Harlem between Bill Perkins and Basil Smikle.

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THIRTEEN and Capital New York interview Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko.

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Celebrating Charles Busch’s nearly 25 years in show business, The Lady in Question is Charles Busch is an acclaimed documentary about the legendary drag performer and theater artist. The film was recently featured as part of Out!, THIRTEEN and Capital sat down with Charles Busch for this exclusive online-only video interview.

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The self-described “actor/manager” talks about seeing his own documentary alongside everyone else — at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Enter the world of the king/queen of drag with a look at the actor/playwright’s early influences and his arduous rise to New York theater stardom in this 2005 documentary film directed by John Catania and Charles Ignacio. In Catania and Ignacio’s first feature documentary we look deep inside the world of one of the most […]

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