Feb 21
Today The New Yorker celebrates its 88th birthday, and what better way to help ring in another year than stories straight from the magazine itself? Since 2010, FORA.tv has hosted The New Yorker Festival– a celebration of the magazine’s reportage and commentary. In one of the festival’s most popular segments “At the Moth,” the magazine’s renowned authors share …
Dec 26
As one of the breakout stars in 2012, Lena Dunham is making just about everyone’s list as one of the year’s most talked about and celebrated names in show business. The Huffington Post named her as one of their “obsessions” for 2012 and Entertainment Weekly selected her as one of its Entertainers of the Year. …
Nov 30
In the first season of the hit HBO series Girls, lead character Hannah Horvath, played by creator Lena Dunham, navigates her complex personal and professional life as an aspiring writer in New York City after her parents cut off financial support. Now slated to return to HBO on January 13, 2013, Girls will kick off …
Oct 10
In a scene from the first season of HBO’s acclaimed series Girls, Hannah Horvath, played by the show’s creator and writer Lena Dunham, meets up with an old college boyfriend at a bar to catch up and pique his interest in the possibility of reigniting their relationship. Instead of accepting her proposal, her ex announces …
Oct 05
Live and on-demand video access to The New Yorker Festival 2012 starts today on FORA.tv. Don’t miss conversations and performances with writers, artists, and other thinkers and luminaries, including Lena Dunham, Malcolm Gladwell, Punch Brothers, Salman Rushdie, and many more. See the full schedule of events presented on FORA.tv below. We hope you join us!
Oct 03
Since emerging on to the indie rock scene in 2008 with their eponymously titled debut album, Vampire Weekend has enjoyed phenomenal success, including a position atop the Billboard 200 chart and a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. Formed in New York City at Columbia University by Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson and …
Oct 02
Listen to a Punch Brothers song and you’d think the origins of the sound was developed somewhere in the middle of Appalachia– and not in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. Since forming in 2006, Punch Brothers, headed by Chris Thile along with Gabe Witcher, Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge and Paul Kowert, has explored topics …
Aug 10
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival kicks off this weekend in Golden Gate Park– and event that has become a staple of the festival circuit since its inaugural show in 2008. As FORA.tv gets ready to join in on our hometown celebration of music, arts, and culture, check out the following videos in …
Aug 09
By day, FORA.tv features events that cover a wide range of topics, from science and philosophy to sports and technology. But after the sun goes down, a whole other animal emerges. For example, take this clip from the Commonwealth Club where columnist and blogger Meghan McCain and comedian and actor Michael Ian Black discusses their …
Aug 03
Whether it’s weekly concert series, a weekend festival or a night out listening to a favorite group or individual artist, the combination of summertime and music is a natural instinct for many of us. As we head into the first weekend of August and the last full month of summer, FORA.tv presents Music Friday featuring …
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