This hour, we celebrate the work of a great journalist — Matt Power, who died March 10, 2014 while on assignment in Uganda.

Holy Soul
by Matt Power (The Next Big Thing, WNYC 2002)
For many teens coming of age in the 1970s, the Beat poets served as rebel heroes. Matt Power was no different. Then he met Allen Ginsberg. In the flesh. Power’s recollections first appeared in an essay in the magazine Heeb.

Dumpster Diving
by Matt Power (The Next Big Thing, WNYC 2003)
Every day of the year, New York City generates 26-thousand tons of garbage. As your mother would say, the amount of food thrown away could feed an army. And come closing time every day, that's exactly what happens.

Flying Pumpkins
by Matt Power (The Next Big Thing, WNYC 2002)
Every year in Millsboro, Delaware, on the first Saturday after Halloween, a fierce competition gets underway, involving powerful instruments of propulsion and… some very hearty produce.

Drive-in, Drive Out
by Matt Power (The Next Big Thing, WNYC 2003)
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