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Elmore Leonard & High School Band Finale 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
This week in Studio 360, we remember master crime writer Elmore Leonard, who died this week, with an interview from 2005. Our Battle of the High School Bands concludes when rock star judges Andrew W.K...
Live in Aspen: Steve Earle & Sarah Jones 16 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
In a program recorded live at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Tony Award-winning performer Sarah Jones transforms herself into a dizzying range of characters — from a Jewish grandmother to a young male rapp...
Big Data Meets Culture & Six-Second Movies 9 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Kurt Andersen finds out how Big Data is helping us decode our culture. The mobile video app Vine brings us six-second dispatches from soldiers in Afghanistan. Thirty years ago, Sue Grafton started a s...
Carla Bruni & Painting Walmart 2 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
This week in Studio 360, Kurt Andersen talks with a painter who wants to capture the way we live today — so he paints people and products in Walmart. He used to get kicked out, but now the store has g...
Middle School Metal & Detroit’s Art for Sale 26 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
This week in Studio 360, Kurt talks with middle-school metalheads Unlocking the Truth. Performing together since kindergarten, the boys have long since mastered the art of slaying. They play live in o...
De-Extinction & The Act of Killing 19 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
This week, Kurt talks with the director of the disturbing and singular new documentary The Act of Killing; it takes us into the minds of paramilitaries, where they re-imagine their massacres with fant...
Coney Island with They Might Be Giants 12 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
Studio 360 hits the beach. Kurt Andersen visits Coney Island with They Might Be Giants, who sing an ode to that guy with the metal detector looking for … whatever he’s looking for. Plus stories about ...
Appalachian Spring & Dixie 5 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
This week in Studio 360, three stories about conflicts simmering below the surface of American life, and sometimes erupting. In Appalachian Spring, a choreographer and a composer teamed up to tell a f...
The Heat & Eric Fischl 28 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
This week in Studio 360, some anxiety about money. The makers of the lady-buddy-cop movie The Heat are feeling the heat to match the success of Bridesmaids, or Hollywood’s women will get sent back to ...
Weird Al & Carl Hiaasen’s Florida 21 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
This week, Studio 360 gets weird. For one thing, there’s "Weird Al," playing a totally normal cover version of an Elvis Costello hit. Carl Hiaasen tries, once again, to convince America to revile Flor...
