Studio 360 checks in on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Katrina. Kurt talks to urban planners who have followed every step of the city's recovery, and New Orleans residents tell their own rebuilding stories. Connie Britton reveals the secret to playing a mother, wife, and high school principal on the television show “Friday Night Lights.” And punk rock's "godmother" Patti Smith talks about a documentary on her life that's been 11 years in the making.
Architecture firm GRAFT and Brad Pitt co-designed this home – a modern take on the traditional New Orleans shotgun house.
(Alexei Lebedev)
New Orleans Five Years Later
How do you rebuild a city? Five years after Hurricane Katrina hit, New Orleans is still answering that question. Robert Olshansky and Laurie Johnson are urban planners and co-authors of the book Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans. They tell ...
Connie Britton
Emmy-nominated actress Connie Britton stars in one of the most realistic television portraits of family life ever. Fans and critics laud her pitch-perfect performance as Tami Taylor in "Friday Night Lights." So it's hard to believe she's ad-libbing most of the time. She tells Kurt that ...
Sunset Boulevard 2.0
This month marks the 60th anniversary of "Sunset Boulevard," the definitive movie about the intoxicating, deadly allure of fame. That got us thinking — what would this story look like if it took place in 2010, the age of Facebook, Twitter, and reality TV? Lucky for us, we ...
Rebuilding It Right
In the Lower Ninth Ward, Melba Leggett lives in what she calls "the #4 Brad Pitt house." In Gentilly, Ommeed Sathe says the community is hoping a strip mall will help bring back residents. And trumpeter Troy Sawyer describes how he ended up in the Habitat ...
Patti Smith
The "godmother of punk" started out in 1970s New York. But in "Dream of Life," a POV documentary that aired on PBS and that's up for an Emmy this weekend, Patti Smith shows sides of herself that the public rarely gets to see. Smith tells Kurt ...
More with Patti Smith
Our extended cut of Kurt's conversation with Patti Smith, including three things you didn’t know about the rock legend: 1) mother turned her on to poetry; 2) writes detective stories; 3) enthusiastic golfer.
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Great Story. Every high school physics and electronics class should listen to this!
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