May 25, 2007

Susanna Moore (Jean Pagliuso)

Susanna Moore

Kurt talks with Susanna Moore, whose new novel, The Big Girls, is set in a women's prison. There she spins a singular, haunting tale about a woman who has killed her children. Excerpts read by Kaylin Clinton and Mallory Kasdan.

Richard Serra

Click here to view a sideshow Richard Serra began working with steel as a teenager, on a summer job in a steel mill. Next week in New York, the Museum of Modern Art will unveil a giant retrospective of his career as one of America’s greatest sculptors. Serra’s recent pieces are massive, 12-foot-tall steel walls that curve and lean together to form fascinating spaces you can enter and walk around. Serra walked Kurt through as he was finishing the installation. Produced by Sarah Lilley.

Laura Veirs (Autumn De Wilde)

Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers

Brainy, whimsical Laura Veirs sings about meteors, birds and bugs, and the occasional mermaid. Storms and natural destruction also find their way into her lyrics. Kurt talks with Veirs and she performs with her band, Saltbreakers, live in the studio.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers

Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers perform "Nightingale" in Studio 360

(Courtesy of the Smithsonian Museum)

Design for the Real World: Propeller

Jeremy Kinney of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum explains how the Wright brothers’ wooden propeller -– designed using the world’s first wind tunnel -- made the dream of defying gravity come true. Produced by Dennis Nishi.

Mingering Mike

Click here to view a sideshow By day, Dori Hadar works as a criminal investigator. But he moonlights as a DJ and prowls for interesting LPs. Sifting through crates of old soul and funk, he found a box of records that mystified him. The sleeves were painted by hand – and the “records” inside were made of cardboard. Hadar put his detective skills to work to find the man who called himself Mingering Mike. Produced by Derek John.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: More from Mingering Mike

Mike and Dori describe the funkiest Kung-Fu movie soundtrack never made -- and the more serious album "The Drug Store."

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