Recipe for Paper
I.Send legal briefs, failed attempts at loveletters and other confidential documentsthrough a shredder,soak over night in a warm bath,scoop handful of wet paper into kitchen blender add boiled daffodil...
View ArticleLove Song Contest Winners
Entries will express, in 300 words or less, why Corey Dargel should write a love song for the contestant. Entries will be judged based on wit, originality, and emotional depth. Judging will be done by...
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Early Peanuts Comics
Date: October 2, 1950Credit: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.Date: August 28, 1956Credit: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.Date: May 3, 1958Credit: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.Date: January 13,...
View ArticlePam Renner's Top Ten Georgian Movies
10. “Chemi Bebia” (My Grandmother) - 1929 Directed by Kote MikaberidzeAn eccentric Georgian silent film from the wild 1920s, a time of modernism in Tbilisi, repackaged by American composer Beth Custer,...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen...
Greetings from Studio 360's home base in New York City!After weeks of listening to tape and mixing (and remixing) our stories, we're proud to post the first sounds of our trip to Japan. On this past...
View ArticleKurt wins Deadline Club award
Kurt's Vanity Fair article on the new era of Beijing architecture, 'From Mao to Wow,' just won a Deadline Club Award for best Arts Reporting. Lucky for us, he did a radio version of the piece, too....
View ArticleExtreme Makeover: Gay Flag
June is gay pride month, and rainbow flags will be flying high at pride celebrations around the country. The flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 and is recognized around the world. But what...
View ArticleThao's Story
Ever since we ran this piece about Thao Nguyen, we've been hooked on her music--'Bag of Hammers' is so catchy! Our reporter went to visit Thao at her mother's Laundromat in Virginia, where she grew up...
View ArticleA Day in Swag
Oh, recession. What was once a swag deluge is now a trickle. Gone are the fat and happy days of bands promoting albums with faux airplane barf bags.But there was a hopeful glimmer the swag economy was...
View ArticleTurns Out Jill Sobule Was a Little Miffed, After All
We were quite taken with Jill Sobule when she came into the studio for a performance chat with Kurt earlier this summer.Jill Sobule: Please don't steal from her. It's for your own good.Jill's new...
View ArticleBlue Turns Fifty
Fifty years ago today, Columbia Records released Miles Davis' groundbreaking album Kind of Blue. In a year of amazing jazz releases - among them John Coltrane's Giant Steps and Charles Mingus' Mingus...
View ArticleSo You Think You Can Dance
Last weekend on the show, we heard from Paulus Berensohn -- a sculptor based at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, and a man of strong opinions when it comes to things clay. He believes...
View ArticleDon't just listen... WATCH Studio 360!
We're counting down... Tonight, Studio 360 is live in the Greene Space, taping a show all about time travel. We have an all-star line-up of experts: astrophysicist David Goldberg, novelist Connie...
View ArticleBe Elizabeth Gilbert's Valentine
Valentine’s Day is just two weeks away – and we're hoping that 2010 can be the year of the new-and-improved Valentine. We’re thrilled that so many talented folks have submitted their ideas to “Be My...
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2010 Tony Nominees Stop by Studio 360
This season, Broadway got a boost from some serious Hollywood star wattage -- and from great productions imported from London's West End. But we can see from the Tony nominations there were also some...
View ArticleAlfredo Molina
Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in the Donmar Warehouse's Broadway production of "Red" (photo by Johan Persson) Last week, Alfred Molina stopped by Studio 360 to chat with Kurt about his Tony-nominated...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Mans Up
When guests come into Studio 360 and get settled, I tend to have a bit of friendly small talk with them before we start the Official Interview. But as Jonathan Franzen and I chit-chatted earlier this...
View ArticlePhotographing the Impossibly Small
Ready for an extreme close-up?Felice C. Frankel has spent 20 years photographing objects outside the range of conventional microscopes -- bits of matter 1/100,000th the size of a baby’s eyelashes....
View ArticleWe'll Pay You to Listen to This
The music industry is dying, and the smart money says the key to success is giving music away for free. Scott Blaszak has a better idea: he’ll pay you $10 to download his album. “Free is not enough!”...
View ArticleThe Vaselines Reunite
The Vaselines were persona non grata in the US when the late Kurt Cobain called them his favorite songwriters. Cult status was instantaneous, but the band had already dissolved. After a 20 year hiatus,...
View ArticleLive Webcast: Our Universe Goes to 11
Final preparations are underway for tonight’s live show in WNYC’s Greene Space: the science magician loads in his equipment in a couple hours, then Reggie Watts will soundcheck, and doors will open at...
View ArticleKurt Andersen's "Human Intelligence: A Holiday Tale"
Ah, Christmas. Time to sit around the fire with eggnog and tell stories of... extraterrestrial spies?This holiday week, Studio 360 presents a new kind of holiday tale. 'Human Intelligence' is by none...
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