Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 18th, 2008

Environmentalist "No Impact Man", AKA Colin Beavan, and Daron Lovaas from the NRDC discuss the economic reaction to rising oil and energy prices, and weigh in on how the high costs are pushing people green.

Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 18th, 2008

Ikea has landed in New York! John McGettrick, the co-chair of the Red Hook Civic Association, and Lisa Kersavage, the director of the Municipal Art Society, discuss the downsides of this week's opening of the Brooklyn Ikea.

Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 18th, 2008

Cesar Fuentes, spokesman for the Red Hook Food Vendors, updates us on the open-air food-court in Red Hook. After battles with the city over health codes, and internal fights amongst the vendors, things are looking up.

Then, Brian Lehrer Live remembers two media giants - Tim Russert and Tony Schwartz... warts and all.

[Brooklyn, NY]

No Impact Man!, Ikea lands in Brooklyn, and a Red Hook food vendors update TONIGHT on Brian Lehrer Live 7:30pm EDT at http://BrianLehrer.tv

Brian Lehrer will sit down with environmentalist "No Impact Man" Colin Beavan and the Natural Resources Defense Council, will discuss today's opening of the Brooklyn Ikea with Red Hook Civic Association co-chair John McGettrick and Municipal Art Society director Lisa Kersavage, and also check in with Red Hook Food Vendors spokesperson Cesar Fuentes for an update on everyone's favorite international, open-air food-court in Red Hook.

Video Available Friday

[Brooklyn, NY]

Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 11th, 2008

Mahdis Kehavarz, the principal for the public relations firm The Make Agency, discusses the difficulties of managing the Muslim identity in the western world.

[Manhattan, NY]

Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 11th, 2008

DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller), a writer, artist and experimental musician, reports from the front lines of a digital media revolution. His new book is called Sound Unbound, a collection of essays by some of the best known digital artists and thinkers about the new angles with which they world.

[Manhattan, NY]

Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 11th, 2008

For our warm weather guide to outdoor music, theater and dance, Brian sits down with River to River Festival executive producer Jody Kuh and City Parks Foundation executive director Dave Rivel to talk about the cultural events you don't want to miss this summer.

Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 4th, 2008

Antonino D'Ambrosio is a writer, director, photographer and musician who has been given the difficult task of portraying income inequality through film. He joins us to talk about the first in the series of shorts he is directing for the SEIU: its called No Free Lunch, starring Comedian Lewis Black.

Listen to the feature track for No Free Lunch, This is a Movement by the band Radio 4

[Manhattan, NY]

Video Available! Aired LIVE on June 4th, 2008

Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam, two of the comedy minds behind the hilarious and informative Internets Celebrities project, talk about the Check cashing industry and the economics of being poor.

[Brooklyn, NY]