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Jenny Lawton

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editor, radio-maker, pal. formerly @wnycstudios, @moreperfect, @studio360show, @wbez. twitterphobe.
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Jenny Lawton
A proud native of the Second City, producer Jenny Lawton joined Studio 360 in 2007. Since then, she's produced the show's American Icons specials on the Disney parks and "I Love Lucy," lots of stories in the Aha Moments series, and a portrait of the Japanese tea ceremony from Kyoto. Jenny started recording interviews as a Watson Fellow in India and Spain, researching the origins of flamenco dance. She cut her teeth in journalism at Chicago Public Radio, where she filed stories on c…

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Rooftop solar's dark side : Planet Money

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By Alana Semuels Verified, Keith Romer Verified, Jenny Lawton, Emma Peaslee Verified
| Flipboard
14 hours ago After Hurricane Beryl made landfall in southeast Texas at Category 1 strength earlier this week, it left extensive flooding and power outages for nearly 3 million homes and businesses in its wake. As of Friday morning, more than a million electricity customers in Texas are still in the …
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The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches : Planet Money Original

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By Alana Casanova-Burgess, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi Verified, Ezequiel Rodríguez Andino, Joaquin Cotler, Tasha Sandoval, Dave Blanchard, Mark Pagan, Marlon Bishop Verified, Jenny Lawton
| NPR Verified
Puerto Rico's beaches are an integral part of life on the island, and by law, they're one of the few places that are truly public. In practice, the sandy stretch of land where the water meets the shore is one of the island's most contested spaces. Today we're featuring an episode of the podcast La Brega from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios, a show about Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican experience.
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Philip Glass’ 1976 opera “Einstein on the Beach” made him a star.

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By Jenny Lawton, Michele Siegel
| The World from PRX Verified
In 1976 Philip Glass was an unknown composer — almost pushing 40, and driving a taxi to make ends meet — when he got his break: a new work performed at New York’s echt-prestigious Metropolitan Opera. “Einstein on the Beach” was directed by Robert Wilson, a key figure in the avant-garde; it was four and a half hours long, had no plot anybody could follow and drove a lot of listeners crazy. But almost overnight, it turned Glass into a household name.
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