Genius Savant

It may surprise some people that movie star Willem Dafoe (Spiderman, The English Patient, Platoon) has roots deep in the stages of experimental theater. Dafoe was a founding member of The Wooster Group in New York, along with director Elizabeth LeCompte and Spalding Gray. Recently, I was lucky enough to catch him back in his [...]

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360 Staff Pick: Logicomix

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth By Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou Graphic nonfiction achieves a new level of elegance in a very rarefied subject: the career of Bertrand Russell – mathematician, philosopher, and educator — and his search for the logical foundation of mathematics.  Against the backdrop of two world wars, Russell tries [...]

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Music That Speaks to You

Here’s a Black Friday deal that the big-box retailers can’t beat.  Buy the new album from the up-and-coming indie band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons and you’ll get a personalized song thrown in, for no extra charge.  Just send them a letter with your life story (or a condensed version, perhaps), and they’ll churn out [...]

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360 Staff Pick: Brazil via Minnesota

Rádio do Canibal BK-One with Benzilla The hottest music out of Brazil at the moment might actually be from Minnesota.  On Rádio do Canibal, Twin City beat-makers BK-One and Benzilla have crafted one of the most musical hip-hop records of the year.  As the title indicates, the American DJs cannibalized a slew of records gathered [...]

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Rhymes With Australopithecus

British poet Ruth Padel shares Charles Darwin’s DNA — she’s his great-great granddaughter.  Inspired by the life of her (relatively) early relative, this descendant of the Descent of Man author pays tribute to her forefather in verse to commemorate the 150th anniversary of On The Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth.  [...]

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Remembering Jeanne-Claude

Last Wednesday, the artist Jeanne-Claude, wife and creative partner of the artist Christo, passed away.  New Yorkers remember Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s ambitious 2005 piece, The Gates, a sweeping installation with 23 miles of saffron fabric fluttering throughout Central Park. The couple showcased their dramatic work all over the world, famously wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin [...]

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You say you want an Evolution?

It’s almost exactly 150 years since On the Origin of Species was published, so for this week’s show we decided to put evolution to the test.  We learned a lot of cool facts in producing this hour: did you know the human species was nearly extinct — dwindling to just 2,000 people — 70,000 years [...]

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Original Sin

Kids never do as they’re told.  The lauded novelist Vladimir Nabokov asked that his unfinished manuscript The Original of Laura be burned upon his death.  But lucky for us, his son Dmitri didn’t listen.  This week marks Laura’s inflammatory publication, which means that fans of Nabokov’s will now have to decide whether to respect the [...]

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Don’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 Willis, monogloguist Mike Daisey, and 28th century pop idol Janelle Monae (a.k.a. Cindy Mayweather). <<<Live web stream HERE at 7:00pm EST>>> The radio broadcast [...]

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Happy Birthday Muppets!

Hard to believe, but the Muppets turned 40 this month! And my favorite segments from “The Muppet Show” are still “Pigs in Space.” In honor of Carrie Fisher’s appearance on our show last week, we bring you a clip from 1980. It’s the Muppets do “Star Wars” – and even though Fisher didn’t make it [...]

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