The Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are creating and shaping our culture. Life is busy - so let Studio 360 steer you to the must-see movie this weekend, the next book for your nightstand, or the song that will change your life.
Kurt Andersen - novelist, journalist, and co-founder of legendary "Spy" magazine - gets inside the creative mind through conversations with guests such as Yo-Yo Ma, Zadie Smith, Sean Lennon, Sean Penn, Walter Mosely, Dolly Parton, Ang Lee, Dave Eggers, Frank Gehry, and Tori Amos. Studio 360 is also the place where a Freudian shrink can analyze a videogame about bunnies and astronauts play piano on the International Space Station.
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Rebuilding the grid is a huge job, but the biggest contract awarded so far went to a tiny, for-profit company that had only two permanent employees when the storm hit.
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Tax overhaul legislation is on the table, but feuds between President Trump and some GOP lawmakers are complicating that effort.
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Police believe the shootings are linked by proximity and time frame — but they don't have a suspect or suspects, or a motive.
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Once an icon of American consumer culture, Sears has slipped billions of dollars into debt.
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Ames Mayfield, 11, first got compliments for his question at a meeting with a Colorado state senator. Then he was kicked out of his Cub Scout den.
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One of the youngest victims in the Northern California wildfires was 14-year-old Kai Logan Shepherd of Redwood Valley.
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Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., withdrew his name from consideration to head the National Office of Drug Control Policy, and President Trump has announced that he will declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency.
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Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos spoke for the first time publicly about his experience the night a gunman killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas.
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Laffer is considered by many to be "the father of supply-side economics," the theory that forms the backbone of the current overhaul plan.
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Condos and apartment buildings are going up in cities across the country to meet housing demands. But many of these buildings look like simple, plain boxes.