Jenny Lawton appears in the following:
Japan: Relief Through Art
Monday, March 21, 2011
Since the quake, Takehiko Inoue (the artist behind the manga Slam Dunk) he has posted several smiling images a day in support of the victims and to lift the spirits of his countrymen.
Japan: The Imagination of Disaster
Friday, March 18, 2011
Last week, Japanese-American historian Bill Tsutsui found himself in Tokyo in the middle of the earthquake: “We were outside this hotel and the earth started moving. And all of a sudden people started running out. First just a few, but then wave after wave. And after it was ...
Iranians Who Dare to Rock
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Man Eats Lightbulb. Really.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
In the off-Broadway spook show Play Dead, master magician Todd Robbins delights in pointing out that illusions are merely that. But he performs one trick that’s shockingly, horrifyingly real.
Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lorre, and the Dangers of Vanity (Cards)
Friday, February 25, 2011
If you’ve just tuned in for the implosion of CBS’s most successful comedy, “Two and a Half Men,” you may be wondering: who’s this Chuck Lorre fellow?
360 Preview: Josh Ritter, Martha Plimpton, and Junot Diaz Grow Up
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Spark: More Stories About Art in Hard Times
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Listen to full interviews with Donald Hall, Joel Meyerowitz, and Lynn Nottage.
Spark: More Stories About Stuff
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Listen to full interviews with Ben Burtt, Stanley Kunitz, and Elizabeth Streb.
Spark: More Stories About Childhood
Friday, January 28, 2011
Listen to full interviews with Chuck Close, Richard Ford, Mira Nair, and Richard Serra.
Goodbye, Hollywood (and Good Riddance)
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Jon Robin Baitz was already a successful playwright when he went to Hollywood to create ABC's Brother's and Sisters. The show was a hit for Baitz, but turns out, the city was anything but: "It was a nightmare. Just the fact that I came from New York and wrote sort of serious-ish plays, before I opened my mouth, there was a kind of trope going around the network already: 'We can't have any of the Baitzian angst.'''
Spark: Read Kurt's Foreword
Monday, January 24, 2011
Spark: How Creativity Works doesn't hit bookshelves until February 15. But to get you in the mood, we've got a sneak-preview. In his foreword to the book, Kurt describes how he embraced Daniel Boorstin's "Amateur Spirit" and summoned the courage to keep trying new things.
Free Theatre Belarus Leaders In Hiding
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Belarus is called the last dictatorship in Europe. The government censors the arts, so performance troupe Free Theatre Belarus performs secretly, in converted houses, to avoid arrest. Today The New York Times is reporting that the leaders of the Belarus Free Theatre have been forced into hiding following an incident at a protest rally.
360 Staff Pick: Modern Madrigals for December
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
What, you think you're too cool for Christmas records? You're going to like this one, and so will your granny.
360 Staff Pick: Requiem for Steam
Friday, December 17, 2010
Requiem for Steam is photographer David Plowden's love letter to the steam engine, full of moving portraits of the machinery, the rails, and the people he's met on a lifetime of journeys.
Jazzercise from the Jazz Age
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
On the Road With the Friedlanders
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Oh Lincoln, My Lincoln
Friday, November 19, 2010
Daniel Day-Lewis, you're great and all — but we would've cast someone else as Lincoln in the upcoming biopic.
I, Twain: the Graphic Novel
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Join a Choir Without Singing a Note
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
