Bulletproof Baby Gear

I got outed on the elevator the other day. A co-worker spotted knitting needles in my bag.
I rarely have a chance to knit these days, and compensate by indulging in the next best thing: looking at weird knitted art online.
Listening to this week’s show, I remembered an odd, thought-provoking site that can add to Jeremy [...]

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Make a New Friend

Most robots take millions of dollars and years of research to build – but you can get started today on your very own, without any grant writing. And some of the materials you’ll need might be cluttering up your house right now.
“Sparky” (an invention of artist Marque Cornblatt) uses [...]

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Dear Diary — It’s Paul’s Alter

Have you been acquainted with a Mr. Elyot Vionnet?

You may not think so, but he’s actually someone we have all experienced at one time or another. For instance, remember the time when that woman with the cell phone and the couture shopping bags slammed right into you on the sidewalk and then gave you [...]

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Cuteness gets remixed

Don’t be fooled by the first 20 seconds of this video– it’s is not just another cute toddler Youtube sensation. Prepare to be impressed and a little freaked out by some very slick video editing. The toddler noises and mugging for the camera get transformed into what could quite [...]

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Kurt on The Leonard Lopate Show

Our host didn’t have to go far for his most recent media appearance. On Tuesday, Kurt was a guest on  The Leonard Lopate Show– our friendly neighbors in the WNYC office.
Kurt tells Leonard about his new book Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America and shares one [...]

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The Priciest Way to Remember Michael

What happens when you mix the King of Pop with the King of Pop Art? The answer is Andy Warhol’s 1984 portrait of Michael Jackson, which will hit the New York auction block later this month. The bidding will start at $840,000, but since both Jackson and Warhol are dead, the piece is expected to [...]

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Multi-talented Giamatti

Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor, a graduate of Yale, a member of Skull and Bones, and… a soul singer?! The last one surprised us too when we rediscovered his performance in Duets (2000) – about karaoke singers. Kurt got the chance to chat with oh-so-modest Giamatti recently, who [...]

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Celebrity Pet Peeves

If you’re ever in a room with They Might Be Giants, one thing’s for sure, watch what you say! At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Kurt got the chance to talk to band members John Flansburgh, John Linnell, and Marty Beller about their hilarious list of phrases that “nobody in the band is allowed to say.” [...]

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No Particular Place to Go

“No Particular Place to Go” as Chuck Berry sang in 1964 is as good a metaphor as any to describe the current plight of the U.S. auto industry. It was just announced that the once mighty Pontiac is no more, and at least two of the Big Three are in serious danger of being relegated [...]

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iPod, Meet Your Maker

We recently spent some time with one of the most interesting people in Los Angeles. He’s a leading light in the so-called Makers’ Movement – people who believe that making things yourself, or fixing the things you have, is lots better than mindlessly buying new stuff.

His name is Peter but he goes professionally by [...]

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