New York

Marcus Garvey, Louis Armstrong, Puffy Daddy… The New York neighbourhood of Harlem has long been home to seminal African-American leaders and trendsetters. Most recently A$AP Mob, the collective that… Audio

The latest New Zealand Opera production is about to open. It's Rossini's La Cenerentola, rather better known as Cinderella. Interestingly three of the leads - Cinderella and the two Wicked Sisters -… Audio

New Zealand photographer who has created series re-creating of the last meals of Death Row criminals, backstage rider requests of rock musicians, and the food of doomsday preppers. Audio

Meg Wolitzer, a leading USA novelist, talks about her extensive career with Kate De Goldi, focusing on a recent highly-awarded novel The Interestings. Audio

Thousands of New Yorkers have attended a funeral service for the seven siblings killed in a Brooklyn house fire. Audio

After The D4 disbanded in 2006, guitarist Dion Lunadon (Palmer) hightailed it to the US, finding his flow in the downtown New York rock scene. His new band, A Place To Bury Strangers have just… Audio

Led by poet, songwriter, author and intellectual property analyst John S. Hall, King Missile blazed a trail in the early 90s and then again in the early 00s, gaining a reputation with their smart… Audio

Meet Ronnie Peters, a Kiwi living in New York, New York, USA. Audio

A blizzard warning and ban on travel has been lifted for New York after the city was spared from the worst effects of Winter Storm Juno with less than a 30 centimetres of snow falling. Audio

A deadline's just passed in New York for all private cars to get off the city's 10 thousand kilometres of roads as people hunker down in the teeth of a massive blizzard. Audio

A monster blizzard which is beginning to batter the United States is expected to cause major disruptions. Audio

Not so many years ago, artists who worked and played with light were seen as something of a fringe art-form. These days, light artists like New York based Brit Anthony McCall has an international… Audio

Run the Jewels - the critically lauded rap duo of Atlanta, Georgia consisting of native Killer Mike and Brooklyn-born and bred MC/producer El-P - is a project only two years deep, but their respective… Audio

New Zealand music history will be made in New York City this week when Porirua born, Los Angeles based soul singer Aaradhna steps on stage at a sold-out Apollo Music Café at the Apollo Theatre, the… Audio

Google releases its list of the year's most popular searches; Star Trek ahead of its time (again); New York City libraries soon will let patrons 'check out the Internet'; an app to help you sleep… Audio

Otto Penzler has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the world of mystery fiction. He has edited more than 50 anthologies, and his specialist store, The Mysterious Bookshop in New York, is the oldest and… Audio

Buffalo in the state of New York has seen more than a year's worth of snowfall in just three days. Audio

He's an artist who seems to enjoy the macabre in his paintings, and it's won him a big prize. Audio