"This Spartan Life" is no ordinary talk show –- it's filmed inside the online video game "Halo 2." It combines good conversation and unexpected explosions, with the added thrill of trying to stay alive long enough to get your point across. Chris Burke ...

On the 50th anniversary of its debut on Broadway, we hear one of the rarely-told stories about the musical’s legendary creators Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Sondheim. WNYC’s Sara Fishko explores how Cold War tensions simmered under the surface of the show’s ...

A founding member of the prestigious Emerson Quartet, violinist Eugene Drucker recently became a novelist.
The Savior is about a musician living in Hitler’s Germany, trying to lay low as the country spins into a nightmare. Then one day, a Nazi commandant ...

Eugene Drucker performs Paul Hindemith's "Violin Sonata, Op. 31, No. 1: II. Sehr langsame Viertel" in Studio 360.

The writer Akiko Busch explains how, over the years, kids’ school accessories have ascended into high style. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.

Singer, songwriter, bass virtuoso, and bandleader Meshell Ndegeocello visited the studio in 2005, after Dance of the Infidel came out. Ave Carrillo couldn’t wait to interview her. But Meshell hates being interviewed, and Ave found out why.

"The Sloganeer: Paradise" from Meshell Ndegeocello's The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams, to be released September 25. (Emarcy / Umgd)