Episode #1226
Breaking Bad & Libyan Hip-Hop
Friday, July 01, 2011
Bryan Cranston (left) as Walter White, a meth-cooking high school chemistry teacher with terminal lung cancer, alongside his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul, right) in Breaking Bad.
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Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, explains how his feel-bad television series (about a meth-dealing high school teacher with cancer) can inspire so much love from audiences and critics. The Normal Heart finally opens on Broadway, a quarter-century after its first performance, and its account of the early years of the AIDS epidemic is still surprising audiences. And as the revolution continues in Libya, music and art are helping to sustain the rebel cause — but fighting on the cultural front can have severe consequences.
Libya’s Soundtrack to the Revolution
The political and military chaos in Libya is about to enter its sixth month. As the rebels wage war against Muammar Gaddafi from their capital in Benghazi, and NATO air strikes continue to target his forces, subtler forms of protest that don't make...
Vince Gilligan on Breaking Bad
"I am amazed that this show is on the air — constantly amazed — because on paper this show shouldn't work," Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan told Kurt Andersen. It's no wonder he feels that way. Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White...
The Summer of the Ukulele
From the Japanese duo U900 to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, to pop acts like Amanda Palmer and Zee Avi, to the irreproachably cool tUnE-yArDs, you can barely avoid musicians trying out a tiny new axe these days. The trend may have reached...
Composer Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon is a rarity in contemporary classical music: a serious composer with populist appeal. Last year she won a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy for two different concertos. And this summer you can hear her work played around the country and...
The Normal Heart: The Story of AIDS for a New Generation
Six years before Tony Kushner grabbed the nation’s attention with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, Larry Kramer had staged The Normal Heart, about the AIDS epidemic and its devastating impact on the gay community. The Normal Heart premiered...
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