Michael Guerriero

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Bigger, Longer, and Choreographed

Friday, April 16, 2010

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Perhaps you remember the dead-on Broadway-style music in South Park's 1999 movie Bigger, Longer, & Uncut.  The plot of that movie, advanced by escalating tension between Canada and the United States, is carried by full-scale animated production numbers like 'Blame Canada' and 'What Would Brian Boitano Do?'

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Celluloid Speculation

Friday, April 09, 2010

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Hollywood is no stranger to stories of Wall Street: from references to the Depression in the classic Gold Diggers, to botched commodities trading in 1983's Trading Places, to Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2, due out later this year.  Now it seems investors are ...

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Poetic License

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

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April is National Poetry Month, and I just stumbled across a great way to celebrate.  Poetic License is an ambitious project that pairs 100 poems with 100 actors, many of them Broadway stars.  The result is a captivating, sometimes surprising synthesis of voice and verse.  Here ...

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Teatro Indocumentado

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Last fall, Andrew Stelzer went to Iowa for Studio 360 to tell the story of a unique amateur theater group, Teatro Indocumentado.

The group formed in the aftermath of the largest immigration raid at a single site in United States history. In May 2008 Federal Immigration ...

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Shorts, But Sweet

Friday, March 12, 2010

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If you watched the Academy Awards this Sunday it would have been easy to miss the category for Best Animated Short Film.  The presentation for the award was...well...short.

But anyone who saw this year's nominees would agree that none of them lack for quality.

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Kurt's Visit with the Guru

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

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Guru, MC of the influential and critically-acclaimed rap group Gang Starr, suffered a heart attack this weekend.  NBC New York and others report that he underwent successful surgery yesterday and remains in a medically-induced coma.

[Update - 4/20: We were sad to learn that, after a ...

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UK Soul Invasion

Monday, March 01, 2010

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Another British invasion is underway. Almost fifty years after The BeatlesThe Stones, and The White Queen of Soul found their way to American shores, a group of talented young ladies is grabbing the spotlight.

This week, V.V. Brown stopped by Studio 360 to chat with Kurt and play ...

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American Icons

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Move over American Idol. Presenting: Studio 360's American Icons.

Sure, Abraham Lincoln isn't most people's idea of a triple threat (though his voice was said to be a reedy tenor). But his memorial in Washington, DC, has staying power. History was made there, and continues to be made ...

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Swifter. Higher. Hipper?

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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Halfway into the first week of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, some athletes have already taken issue with the judging. But at these games, there is no discordant French judge at the center of the controversy. Instead, it’s the style police stirring things up.

Figure skater Johnny Weir has ...

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More for New Orleans to Celebrate

Friday, February 12, 2010

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New Orleans is in the midst of a week-long party.  Between last weekend's Super Bowl win for the Saints and next week's Mardi Gras festivities, the city has a lot to celebrate.  But revelers, make sure to save some energy for a live performance by local singer Theresa ...

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Glee Spreads to Japan

Friday, February 05, 2010

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Fans of the Fox series "Glee" are known for their passion and enthusiasm.  Some "gleeks" are so dedicated to the show and its elaborately staged musical numbers that they perform their own versions of songs from the show and post them on YouTube.  Now perhaps the ...

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Good Manners

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened its exhibition on 'The Drawings of Bronzino,' showcasing the work of a man who may just be the best painter nobody cares about.

Agnolo Bronzino was one of the leading painters and poets of sixteenth-century Italy.  But ...

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Busted!

Friday, January 22, 2010

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Indie-pop's next big hit could be in Manglish.

That's the blend of Malay and English singer-songwriter Zee Avi favors for her song “Kantoi.” The YouTube sensation visited Studio 360 recently and she performed the song live for us.

Zee Avi explained that "Kantoi" means "busted." ...

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Can Art and Football Mix?

Monday, January 18, 2010

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George Plimpton famously combined letters and football when he took a break from his day job as editor-in-chief of The Paris Review to try out for the Detroit Lions - as a 36-year-old rookie quarterback.  He documented the sobering experience in his classic book, Paper Lion.  ...

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Love Virtually

Friday, January 08, 2010

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A couple weeks ago, Kurt spoke with director James Cameron about his spectacular new movie Avatar.  He told Kurt that while the technology he used to craft the movie is important, at heart it's a love story: it's just that instead of boy meets girl, it's boy meets twelve-foot blue humanoid-cat... by posing as a virtual twelve-foot blue humanoid cat, himself.

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