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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In a novel of secrets, class and motherhood, author Anna Solomon tells the story of a baby who is abandoned under a pear tree by her Jewish 18-year-old mother.
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A Pentagon memo obtained by the Washington Post suggests that some foreign-born U.S. military recruits, who are not yet citizens, could face deportation.
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Prosecutors say that Shkreli operated a Ponzi-like scheme at two companies he ran. -
At an expensive fundraiser for his 2020 re-election, Trump not only will rake in cash for his campaign, but also run up a huge pile of revenues for his business. -
In Connecticut, an after-school arts program has partnered with a local resettlement agency to create a special violin class for young refugees.
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Some cancer specialists are trying a gentler, steadier kind of treatment that aims not to cure cancer, but to keep it at bay.
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Drivers are signing lease-to-own contracts for their trucks that condemn them to modern-day indentured servitude, according to a USA Today Network report. -
Senate Republicans crafting their latest health care plan is hardly the first time American politics have been shaped behind closed doors. -
Over the past year, public Facebook pages with memes joking and commiserating about the college experience have boomed.
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Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Middle East analyst F. Gregory Gause about the significance of the announcement.
