Post-Art

Post-its – those handy little sticky notes – turn 30 this year.  To celebrate the milestone, 3M is inviting young people aged 11 – 18 to create Post-it art.  The winner will work with an artist to create the world’s largest billboard made entirely of Post-it notes.  It will be displayed in Vanderbilt Hall at [...]

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This Week in Swag

Spring has officially arrived in New York City and that means getting out of the apartment–at last!–and into the parks and playgrounds. This foot-long block of blue foam reflects this happy change: it’s a miniature, pop-out playground sent to us by the Rockwell Group,  designers of Imagination Playground. They describe their creation as a playspace [...]

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Story Time

The Pen/Faulkner Foundation announced its annual PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story on Monday. The prize, which in recent years has be shared between an established writer and an emerging one, went to Edward P. Jones (Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar’s Children) and Nam Le (The Boat). In addition to [...]

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All Apologies … to Erin

A couple weeks ago, Studio 360 featured the good works of David Ellis Dickerson – former Hallmark greeting card employee gone solo.  He takes commissions at his blog, Greeting Card Emergency.  He has a real gift for making greeting cards for sticky situations: like for when you go to your friend’s house for a party [...]

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360 Staff Pick: No Joke

The Book of Jokes A Novel by Momus Momus (a Scotsman born Nick Currie) has a reputation as music’s darkest singer-songwriter, but his novel takes dark to another level.  In The Book of Jokes, all jokes — obscene, cruel, etc. — actually happen, and they happen to one poor family.  The beleaguered narrator, escaping his [...]

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Law and Order: Special Theater Unit

We’ve heard how contentious the process of confirming judges has become.  So how exactly did Denny Chin get appointed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals by a 98 to 0 vote?  Perhaps the senators took into account his extracurriculars.  Chin has led an unusual project in which lawyers create documentary theater based on historical [...]

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Horse-drawn Hummer

Last month artist Jeremy Dean drove a horse-drawn carriage through New York City.  The horses were two White Percherons – standard draft horses for Central Park.  And the carriage was a Hummer H2. Dean’s trip was equal parts performance art and sculpture.  He bought a used Hummer, sliced off most of the front end, and [...]

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A Ricky Gervais Extra

In this week’s show, Ricky Gervais drops by Studio 360. And listening back to the tape, my stomach muscles are aching. We couldn’t wait until the weekend to share a piece of the interview. In this straight-from-the-studio preview, Gervais declares his love for Karl Pilkington, the “secret” behind both the podcast and new HBO show. [...]

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The Poet of the Common Man Sings Again

It’s been three years since we’ve heard something new from Merle Haggard, but it’s clear that he’s been hard at work.  He’s just released I Am What I Am, his first album for his new label Vanguard. His longtime band The Strangers backs him up. The album features ballads about love as well as some [...]

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Of course, it’s an honor just to be nominated…

The New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association announced the finalists for its television and radio news awards yesterday, and we were happy to see that Studio 360 made the list – not just once, but three times.  The show garnered nominations for Best Radio Interview, Best Radio Feature, and General Excellence in Use of [...]

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