Five Things You Had To See Online This Week
This week in "Thanks, Internet" — Mario sinks Confederate flag, a Teen Spirit smashes a shovel, Rihanna's favorite veggie is KoRn, man in giraffe mask lip syncs Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" in act...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in "Thanks, Internet" — Literary road trips are mapped, all the "Jurassic" movies in high heels, scaffolding enthusiasts find a home, one voice changes in different spaces, and Alex Trebek...
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Sideshow Podcast: How 'Kung Fury' Went from Karate Joke to Kickstarter to...
Kung Fury is every 80s action film you've ever watched and dreamed of, packed into a ridiculous, rollicking, fully retro 30 minutes. It’s about a renegade cop in 1985 Miami who gets hacked back in time...
View ArticleA Karate Comedy Goes From Kickstarter to Cannes
In 2013, Swedish filmmaker David Sandberg put a trailer up on Kickstarter for a movie he wanted to make about a renegade cop in 1985 Miami who gets thrown back in time to kill Hitler. In under a month,...
View ArticleFive Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Run them Jewels fast (and forever), Tig Notaro joins Twitter, Key and Peele call it quits, "Mission: Impossible" gets an honest trailer, and Prince Charles versus...
View ArticleThanks, Internet: The Best Five Things Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Run them Jewels fast (and forever), Tig Notaro joins Twitter, Key and Peele call it quits, "Mission: Impossible" gets an honest trailer, and Prince Charles versus...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — A bodega owner fights the power/gentrification, songs that stop after saying "stop," Chris Pratt paints murals, Fetty Wap meets Doug, and Chris Rock weighs in on the...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Jonathan Wolff Slapped the Bass for Seinfeld and the...
Jonathan Wolff is the Michael Jordan of TV theme songs. He’s written over 40, from Will and Grace to The Hughleys. Before becoming Hollywood’s go-to theme song writer, Wolff spent a decade as a...
View ArticleYo La Tengo Covers Anything You Want
Yo La Tengo is an indie rock band that has been around as long as the genre itself. For more than 30 years, the married duo of Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley (with, for the past two decades, bassist...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Joanna Newsom returns, California fights drought with balls, the commander-in-chief's meme is explained, Tom Brady looks terrible, and horror music scores go major....
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Thanks, Internet: The Best Five Things Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — emoticons find a new purpose, Deez Nuts runs for prez, a professor becomes Bowie, publishing houses outwit each other, Eminem loves mom's spaghetti. 1. Deez Elections...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Hip-Hop, 40s, and the Myth of the Brass Monkey
In the mid-90s, rappers from the East Coast to the West convinced an entire generation to consume malt liquor in “40s”— 40-ounce glass bottles that delivered the alcohol equivalent of a six-pack in one...
View ArticleJonathan Wolff Slapped the Bass for Seinfeld and the Internet Can't Thank Him...
Jonathan Wolff is the Michael Jordan of TV theme songs. He’s written over 40, from Will and Grace to The Hughleys. Before hitting it big, Wolff spent a decade as a “multi-purpose utility tool for...
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Why Wes Was The Best
Here's something you wouldn't have assumed about Wes Craven: the Master of Suspense was an avid birder. To celebrate the arrival of spring in 2013, Studio 360 held a listener challenge: remix spring...
View ArticleSweater-in-an-Art Museum Season Is Almost Upon Us
With summer's end comes the upswing of the local art and culture scene. Local critics discuss what upcoming productions, shows, and exhibitions they're keeping their eyes (and ears) on this...
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Five Things You Had To See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Kanye gets the "Jerry Roll" treatment, Kermit finds a new pig, the New Yorker is sorta mocked, songs get autocanonized, and ducks make some noise. 1. What's the Deal...
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Sideshow Podcast: How Hodor Became the Heart of “Game of Thrones”
Like Sailor Moon and Ron Swanson before him, Hodor belongs to a special league of TV characters who have become memes. When Kristian Nairn received the casting call for a role in which he would only...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Rebuilds His Nation
A lot of fuss has been made about the "real" Stephen Colbert, but the new host of the Late Show looked a lot like that right-wing pundit from the Colbert Report during his debut last night. He kicked...
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Five Things You Had To See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Barbie tears your instagrams apart, The True Size improves your geography, Hell's Club combines every single movie's club scenes, nihilism has never looked happier,...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — An epic movie phone tree, Eleanor Roosevelt's booty call, the unseen power of grammar, an otherworldly Elton John cover, and a Rottweiler's self-evaluation win the...
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Sideshow Podcast: "Thanks, Obama" (feat. Barack Obama?!)
Barack Obama is the internet's president. There’s an endless bounty of GIFs, mash-up videos, and memes to prove it. A big part of the president’s online appeal is that he is a participant: he can be...
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How Hodor Became the Heart of “Game of Thrones”
Like Sailor Moon and Ron Swanson before him, Hodor belongs to a special league of TV characters who have become memes. There’s fan art, a smartphone app, GIFs, supercuts, and lots (and lots) more.Nairn...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: The Internet Is Forever
For his final episode, Sean Rameswaram traces the path of creative work he has personally posted, from blogging to sketch comedy videos to a truly ill rap posse. To close out the show, he gets the...
View ArticleMake Room for Jem
This week's Movie Date podcast includes a very special radio play acted out by Rafer, Kristen, Sean Rameswaram (of the late, great "Sideshow" podcast), and Katie Bishop (of "Death, Sex & Money")....
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The Memeing of the President
Barack Obama is the internet's president. There’s an endless bounty of GIFs, mash-up videos, and memes to prove it. A big part of the president’s online appeal is that he is a participant: he can be...
View ArticleVideo: The Ultimate Texting Challenge
Walking and texting: You've seen it. You've done it.You've probably also eaten and texted. You've talked and texted. You've pulled your car over to the side of the road to send a text message (because...
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Yo La Tengo Takes It Higher
Yo La Tengo knows how to cover a song. On past albums, they've brought their signature sound to everything from Cat Stevens to Jackson Browne to Petula Clark. So, in celebration of their newest album...
View ArticleA Guide to 2015's Alt-Holiday Music
The Industrial Christmas Music Complex is a lot like Christmas itself: you're going to get some totally boring socks and sweaters, but you might end up with some unexpected and wonderful surprises,...
View ArticleHere's Christmas Music You’ll Actually Want to Play
The Industrial Christmas Music Complex is a lot like Christmas itself: you're going to get some totally boring socks and sweaters, but you might end up with some unexpected and wonderful surprises,...
View ArticleLive In-Studio: Mac DeMarco
Mac DeMarco would lead you to believe that he's some kind of foolish, archetypal teen movie slacker: the torn clothes, the lingering stale scent of off-brand cigarettes, the irreverent sense of humor....
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Podcast Special: Why Hodor is the Heart of "Game of Thrones"
"Game of Thrones" is the most pirated TV show ever — and it’s most beloved character is Hodor, the tall, strong, and slow-on-the-uptake man who valiantly protects the offspring of the Stark family....
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How to See “Hamilton”
“Hamilton,” the unprecedented smash is sold out until 2017. Tickets go for more than a month’s rent on StubHub. The digital lottery is Broadway's version of Powerball. But there might be a back door...
View ArticleAll Day in Line for a Chance to See 'Hamilton': Worth It?
Now that the unprecedented Broadway smash Hamilton has added Tonys to its long list of awards, good luck getting in to see the show this year, let alone next. To quote one of the show's standout...
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Sister Act: The Rise of Haim
The three sisters of the pop-rock band Haim have the kind of story biopic producers must dream about. Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim grew up in Southern California playing classic rock and ‘80s pop...
View ArticleHari Nef: Not Just Another Trans Actress/Model/Activist
Hari Nef’s first job out of college was a recurring role in the second season of the acclaimed Amazon family drama "Transparent" and she didn’t even have to audition. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t...
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Object Anyway
At the trial of James Batson in 1982, the prosecution eliminated all the black jurors from the jury pool. Batson objected, setting off a complicated discussion about jury selection that would make its...
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When Your Election's This Scary, You Get a Political Haunted House
Every four years, the peak of our presidential election season runs right alongside the peak of the annual haunted house season. This year, the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes decided to do something about...
View ArticleThis Year's Election in... Halloween Costumes
The dedicated listeners of the Brian Lehrer Show share how this year's election inspired their Halloween costumes this year and Sean Rameswaram, reporter for WNYC's More Perfect, joins to discuss a...
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Political Party with Keli Goff: Election Night Party
For many voters, the current election cycle can’t end soon enough. Luckily, Election Day is here and WNYC is throwing a party to celebrate.For the final installment of its monthly series Political...
View ArticleThis Puerto Rican Eggnog Puts The Feliz In Your Navidad
We talk with coquito masters in Harlem and a moonshiner in the Bronx to learn about the holiday drink that’s the centerpiece of a Puerto Rican Christmas celebration. (Repeat)Please subscribe to this...
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New York's Hottest Gym Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met's Great Hall has a way of humbling you — of hushing you into quiet contemplation. But for the next few weeks, it's also the starting point for Monica Bill Barnes & Company's "Museum...
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Raise Your (He)art Rate With A Workout At The Met
Seeing a great work of art might quicken your pulse, but now New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hoping you'll break a sweat, too. The Met is currently offering a "Museum Workout" — part...
View ArticleHow Internet Outrage Could Lead to Actual Change
New Yorker staff writer Amy Davidson and Sean Rameswaram, a producer for WNYC’s More Perfect podcast, talk about whether the public outrage around headlines concerning United Airlines, Pepsi, and Bill...
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"Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" Writers Talk Comedy in the Age of Trump
"Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" writers Ashley Nicole Black, Patrick Cassels and Mathan Erhardt discuss how they approach their work within the context of the current political climate and the value...
View ArticleThe Great Canadian Cultural Quiz
How much do you know about Canadian culture? Our resident producer from rural Ontario, Daniel Guillemette, tested Kurt and dual citizen Sean Rameswaram.
View ArticleLive In-Studio: Mac DeMarco
Mac DeMarco would lead you to believe that he's some kind of foolish, archetypal teen movie slacker, but the 27-year-old is one of the hardest working musicians today. His 2015 album "Another One,"...
View ArticlePodcast Mixtape: Conor Oberst
Ever wonder what your favorite musician's podcast would sound like? If that musician is Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, Monsters of Folk) wonder no more.Join More Perfect correspondent Sean...
View ArticleWho’s Gerry and Why Is He So Bad at Drawing Maps?
“It is an invidious, undemocratic, and unconstitutional practice,” Justice John Paul Stevens said of gerrymandering in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004). Politicians have been manipulating district lines to...
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The Gun Show
For nearly 200 years of our nation’s history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and 70s, a movement emerged — led by Black Panthers...
View ArticleThe Heist
The Supreme Court may not have been conceptualized as a co-equal branch of the federal government, but it became one as a result of the political maneuvering of Chief Justice John Marshall. The fourth...
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