Billy Bragg, veteran British rocker and activist, stops by to perform a few songs and chat with Kurt Andersen. We hear from the new Broadway show Grey Gardens. And Kevin Willmott, the director of The Confederate States of America, explains why he thinks the South really won the Civil War.
Billy Bragg
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Born in the CSA
A documentary in theaters tells the story of the South's victory over the Union in the Civil War. Most of CSA: The Confederate States of America is obviously faked, but filmmaker Kevin Willmott didn't re-write American history as a joke. He set out to reveal a disturbing ...
Design for the Real World: Roomba
Buy any robots lately? Robotics engineer Daniel H. Wilson explains what's so special about a sentient little vacuum cleaner called the "Roomba." Produced by Caitlin Lindsey.
Billy Bragg
The singer and guitarist Billy Bragg burst on to the music scene in Britain in the early 1980s, singing about love and Margaret Thatcher (not in the same song). He got his inspiration to be a musician from a stint in the army, and he sounded like ...
Love, From Scratch
Aminah Robinson works with all kinds of materials and found objects —anything from wood to leather, textiles to mud. When Kurt Andersen spoke with Robinson, she explained how she takes her artistic cues from her ancestry and from her community, and the necessity of ...
Grey Gardens
If there were a competition to create a Broadway musical based on the least likely source material, Grey Gardens might be the winner. The show is adapted from the 1975 documentary that followed the reclusive aunt and cousin of Jackie O. Christine Ebersole, the star of Grey ...
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A very interesting story and exhibit. As a painter myself, I use mathmatics in all of my paintings. Although not ...
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Eve Beglarian's Mississippi experience music touched me deeply.
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