Studio 360: Getting Inside the Creative Mind By Chelsea Balzer, KIOS Development Assistant These days, many people find themselves co-founded Spy magazine, written for rooted firmly in one of two camps: The New Yorker and served as a critic at followers of top-40 radio and celebrity Time, Andersen has been with Studio 360 gossip or those who avoid pop culture at since its inception in 2000. The show has all costs, save reruns of a favorite series received multiple accolades, earning the or the opportunity to make an ironic prestigious Peabody Award back in 2004. joke. Guests have included Yo-Yo Ma, Dolly Studio 360 is a program with something Parton and Sean Lennon. Topics range to offer members of both groups. It from Beyonce’s new work to 3D printing, challenges reality-sitcom fans to take a but always take an intellectual approach, deeper look and asks the boycotters to throwing in a bit of dry humor for good acknowledge the relevance of cultural measure. Studio 360 wants to be your media. Studio 360 is a show which takes cultural guide, inviting its listeners to an insightful and critical look at what’s drop their notions about high art and low going on inside of our radios, on our art and see it all through the same lens: TVs and between the pages of our one which seeks to understand the social books. Kurt Andersen, Host of Studio 360 climate of our day. Each week, the show’s host Kurt from Big Data to the culture shock of Tune in to KIOS Saturdays at 12pm and Andersen leads a discussion about what’s 1913, sitting down with those who are you may just discover your new favorite new or interesting in film, literature and “creating and shaping our culture” to book or album. You may find yourself art. But it’s not just about entertainment. find out what makes them tick. reexamining a film you’ve loved for many The show looks at topics which range years with a fresh perspective. Either Andersen, an Omaha native, is himself a way, this is the show for getting in touch critically-acclaimed author and columnist with the collective creative and keeping FEBRUARY 2014 with a love of satire. Having previously your finger on the pulse.

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