The Strand Weekend Highlights: Oct. 13, 2012 — Alex Katz; Obi Emelonye; Jake Shimabukuro; Argo; #cometogether; Anish Kapoor.
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Campaign Ads & Steampunk Chic — What exactly is steampunk? We’ll meet some musicians who are making the dusty Victorian era new all over again. Kurt Andersen finds out why the presidential campaign ads have lost their edge. Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale) reveals that his new novel — a story of war, romance, and gangsters — is actually based on his family. And singer-composer Shara Worden (who performs as My Brightest Diamond) plays live in the studio.
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Weekend Highlights: October 6th, 2012 — 50 Shades of Grey; Edna O’Brien; Angelo Villani; The Parade review; David Thomson; Bengazi culture; Cartier Bresson in India; International Bluegrass Music Awards
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Andrew McCarthy & Theater for the People — Kurt Andersen talks with Andrew McCarthy, the Brat Pack heartthrob (don’t say it to his face) who’s now an award-winning travel writer. Oskar Eustis, maybe the most influential man in American theater, explains why theater can change the world. And a young woman dreams her way out of Brooklyn with a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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The Strand Weekend Highlights: Sept. 29, 2012 — J K Rowling; John Akomfrah; Be Be Winans; Peter Hoeg; Karl Sharro; Mounir Fatmi; Olvier Cachin; Tahar Ben Jelloun.
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Salman Rushdie & Andy Warhol — Kurt Andersen talks with Salman Rushdie. His new memoir chronicles the stranger-than-fiction decade he spent under threat of the Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa. We revisit the golden age of MTV. And Andy Warhol turns a can of Campbell’s soup into an American icon. (Segments in this week’s show aired previously.)
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Philip Glass & Strippers — Kurt Andersen asks whether stripping is art — or at least, enough like art to win tax-exempt status in a case before a New York court. Philip Glass explains how his generation of avant-garde artists busted out of obscurity. And from all the listeners who participated in our Remix Challenge, DJ/rupture picks a winner.
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The Strand Weekend Highlights: Sept. 21, 2012 — Toronto Film Fest; Ivory Coast Artists; Larry Graham; Zimbabwe Urban Fest; Vaddey Ratner; Rio Exhibition; Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight.
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Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC
David Foster Wallace & Sadder Pop Hits — DT Max talks about his new biography of the late David Foster Wallace. Kurt Andersen asks rockers The Heavy, whose song “How You Like Me Now” is ubiquitous, why generations of Brits have reintroduced Americans to American music. And we find out why pop music has been getting sadder.
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Weekend Highlights: September 8, 2012 — Mark Coles with Film: 2016 - Obama’s America; Lawless; Books: The Kennedys: Photographs by Mark Shaw; Leonardo and The Last Supper; trinidadian novel ‘Light Falling on Bamboo’; rev Sorrentino ‘Everybody’s Right’; Music: Baloji and Somali Southall Project;