Sneak Preview: Studio 360 Live with Eugene Mirman& tUnE-yArDs
How did you spend Monday night? Here in Studio 360, we tapped a keg, lined up some killer acts, and hung out with 150 of our closest friends at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.The band...
View ArticleSneak Preview: Merrill Garbus’ Ukulele
An old ukulele — bought at an Army-Navy store — started Merrill Garbus on the path to drum-looping, face-painting renown with her band tUnE-yArDs. She told Kurt Andersen that her mother's uke helped...
View Article“In My Next Life I Will Be…”
We asked our studio audience to tell us about their dream jobs. Eugene Mirman reads some of the responses, from “astronaut” to “artisan glass blower.”What do you want to be in your next life? Leave a...
View ArticleMerrill Garbus Becomes tUnE-yArDs
Merrill Garbus is the performer and multi-instrumentalist behind tUnE-yArDs— a music project that blends African-inspired rhythms and vocals with electric bass and saxophone. But she only discovered...
View ArticleElizabeth Wurtzel
One classic reinvention fantasy goes like this: you leave a square, respectable job and write a best-selling book. Elizabeth Wurtzel did just that — but in reverse. She was in her twenties when Prozac...
View ArticleEugene Mirman vs. The Cable Guy
The Brooklyn-based comedian Eugene Mirman is the stand-up king of hipsterville. He was a regular on the HBO series Flight of the Concords and now appears on Adult Swim’s Delocated— and you can see him...
View ArticleEve Beglarian's Huck Finn Adventure
In 2009 the composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling down the Mississippi River — from the Headwaters in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. She made the trip mostly in a kayak, trading...
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