Jenny Lawton appears in the following:
First Listen: Tom Hanks as Walt Disney
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Tom Hanks grew up watching Walt Disney on television — now the actor will play him on-screen in Saving Mr. Banks. To prepare for the role, Hanks poured over archival recordings held ...
Mario Buatta: Prince of Chintz
Friday, November 08, 2013
In the 1970s and 80s, Mario Buatta made a name for himself creating opulent, English country style interiors for the rich and famous. He’s designed for Jackie Onassis, Barbara Walte...
Darwin Got It Wrong
Friday, November 01, 2013
Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Lord Kelvin are remembered as unimpeachable geniuses. But over the course of their careers, they each made tremendous errors — not just faulty equ...
Jessica Lange's Dark Magic
Friday, November 01, 2013
The Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange started her career as the ultimate ingénue — the beautiful helpless blonde in King Kong, then the sweet soap opera actress in Tootsie. Since ...
American Icons: The Disney Parks
Friday, October 18, 2013
Generations of Americans have grown up with Walt Disney shaping our imaginations. We’ll tour Disneyland with its art director, a second-generation Imagineer, who explains why even the...
No Time For Tea
Friday, August 30, 2013
The tea ceremony is a 400-year-old ritual for serving green tea. But in Japan's techno-centric society (increasingly fueled by coffee) can the tea ceremony survive? Studio 360’s Jenny...
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
Friday, March 22, 2013
While classical institutions usually bemoan the aging audience, Eric Whitacre’s fanbase is squarely in a prize demographic of 18-to-30 year olds. Whitacre is the most popular choral c...
Listener Challenge: Remixing Spring
Friday, March 01, 2013
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has just finished digitizing its entire collection of 150,000 animal sounds — including its especially vast collection of bird songs. We want you to us...
Downton Abbey: Cocktails with the Crawleys
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
A saga with such color, such intrigue deserves a cocktail named after everyone in it, upstairs and downstairs: The Dowager Countess (crème de violette and lemon juice), O'Brien's Reve...
Aha Moment: Finding Nemo
Friday, January 04, 2013
Kiki Kienstra had a good job teaching kindergarten, a nice apartment, and a community of friends. “I didn’t have a big need for change,” she remembers. “You know, everything was fine,...
New Year’s Resolution: A Cello Recital
Friday, January 04, 2013
As 2012 drew to a close, we asked you to declare your creative New Year’s resolution. We heard from more than 100 ambitious creatives, including aspiring novelists, composers, and a p...
Winner: Photo Remix Challenge
Friday, December 21, 2012
Last month, we gave you a challenge: married photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor provided ten images for you to remix into an original composition. We received more than...
FDR’s Secret Love Life
Friday, December 07, 2012
In the summer of 1939, Europe was months away from war and England was desperate for American support. Franklin Roosevelt invited the King and Queen to spend the weekend at his countr...
More of Your Photo Remixes
Friday, November 30, 2012
Photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor have provided ten elements for you to use to create a new image. We’ve already received hundreds of great submissions, including one fro...
Your Photo Remixes
Friday, November 23, 2012
We recently kicked off a new listener challenge — your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves photography. Married photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor have prov...
Faking It: Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor
Friday, November 16, 2012
Since the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann has been a giant of surreal photomontage. And he still works the old-fashioned way: “I’ve had images that I’ve worked on for two or three weeks in th...
American Icons: I Love Lucy
Friday, November 09, 2012
It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy's weekly antics and humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy: from Desperate Housewives to 30 Rock – writers can’t live without Lucy.
Lawrence O'Donnell: Politics as Entertainment
Friday, November 02, 2012
Political candidacies now seem to be as much about narrative as experience, with each campaign vying to control “the story” of its candidate. Lawrence O’Donnell is a former senate sta...
Getting Creative During the Superstorm
Friday, November 02, 2012
Many of us in the Northeast had our routines upended by Superstorm Sandy this week. Here at Studio 360, we've been scrambling around Brooklyn — using laptops, kitchen tables, and borr...
Aha Moment: Lee Ann Womack
Friday, October 26, 2012
Mary Miller fell in love with a man who made his fortune flipping houses. When the relationship ended, Mary wasn’t just heartbroken — she wanted to beat him at his own game.On the ...