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Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

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Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

April 21, 2023 • In Chita: A Memoir, Rivera recounts her career originating roles in major Broadway shows. Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of the skirt!"

Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

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Looking back on the original 'West Side Story' and its impact on Nuyorican identity

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Looking back on the original 'West Side Story' and its impact on Nuyorican identity

December 19, 2021 • This week, Alt.Latino takes a look at how the original 1961 West Side Story impacted Puerto Ricans growing up in New York.

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Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again

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Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again

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December 9, 2021 • This is the first musical Spielberg's ever made, but he proves a natural: Few other American filmmakers have a more instinctive sense of rhythm and visual flow, or more direct access to your emotions.

Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again

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Listen: 'Web Site Story,' NPR's Musical About The Internet — From 1999

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Listen: 'Web Site Story,' NPR's Musical About The Internet — From 1999

August 29, 2016 • Found in our archives: an Internet-themed remake of West Side Story from the dot-com bubble era. It begins with Bill Gates and features the sound of a modem but isn't as obsolete as you might expect.

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October 17th: What's On Today's Show

October 17, 2011 • In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, the role of mid-sized businesses in driving the economy, and the opinion page looks at the Occupy Wall Street protests. In the second hour, West Side Story 50 years later, and historian Victor Davis Hanson talks about his book, The End of Sparta.