Leital Molad appears in the following:
Girl in a Coma
Friday, June 01, 2012
The San Antonio band Girl in a Coma formed over a junior high obsession over the tortured music of Morrissey. “I loved him so much it hurt,” says singer Nina Diaz, who was only 13 w...
The Many Worlds of Gabriel Kahane
Friday, May 25, 2012
On a given weekend, you might find Gabriel Kahane performing a piano sonata in a concert hall … or stumble upon him at a bar, playing with a rock band. He composes classical music for...
Filmmaker Mark Duplass: The Anti-Slacker
Friday, May 11, 2012
A new kind of leading man has taken hold in Hollywood: the lovable loser. Together with his brother Jay, Mark Duplass has written and directed smart, affecting comedies about these l...
Aha Moment: The Rolling Stones and Of Montreal
Friday, April 27, 2012
The band Of Montreal is known for its theatrical, over-the-top shows. Frontman Kevin Barnes’ antics and flamboyant costumes recall the heyday of glam rock. Barnes wasn’t a born perfo...
Lena Dunham’s Girls
Friday, April 13, 2012
Lena Dunham is the creator, director, and star of the new HBO series Girls, and, at 25, happy to be called a girl herself. The show follows four young women trying to carve out adul...
Nneka's Heavy Soul
Friday, April 13, 2012
It’s rare that a musician comes along whose songs are both political and globally appealing. Nneka’s music is a mixture of Afrobeat, hip-hop, R&B, and folk. She's just released her se...
Will Ferrell en Español
Friday, March 09, 2012
Will Ferrell can make just about anything funny: playing the flute, negotiating with a toddler, just standing around in his underpants. For his latest movie, he joined a cast of Mexic...
The Mad Women of Madison Avenue
Friday, February 24, 2012
Mad Men lets its viewers revel in the glamour of the 1960s while still pointing a finger at the era’s backwardness — particularly when it comes to the treatment of women. But is Mad...
Miss Bala: The Beauty Queen and the Drug Lord
Friday, February 03, 2012
A new film called Miss Bala is an artful, riveting depiction of Mexico's drug war, and it isn’t the good guys-bad guys shoot-em-up you might expect. Instead, the story is told through...
Shalom Auslander and Anne Frank
Friday, January 20, 2012
What if Anne Frank had lived? That’s the premise of the new novel by Shalom Auslander, who made his name with the dark comic memoir Foreskin's Lament. Hope: A Tragedy is about a yuppi...
Angelina Jolie
Friday, January 06, 2012
You don't get much more famous than Angelina Jolie. The acting roles that made her famous (the troubled teen in Girl Interrupted, the ass-kicking archeologist in Tomb Raider) have lon...
American Icons: Moby-Dick
Friday, December 30, 2011
In this Peabody Award-winning show, Kurt Andersen sets sail in search of the great white whale.
Teachers: No More Apple Crapple
Friday, December 09, 2011
For our next redesign project, Studio 360 is giving schoolteachers a makeover. Turns out a lot of teachers hate the treacly, old-fashioned visual imagery that gets dumped on them (A...
R.E.M.'s Admirable Legacy
Friday, September 23, 2011
Back in the 1990s, R.E.M. used to joke that they’d play their final concert on December 31, 1999 and break up the next day. Had they done that, with the original lineup intact (drummer Bill Berry left in 1997), they would have certainly gone out with a bang.The ...
The Two Worlds of Gabriel Kahane
Friday, September 23, 2011
On a given weekend, you might find Gabriel Kahane performing a piano sonata in a concert hall ... or stumble upon him at a bar, playing with a rock band. He composes classical music ...
Nicholson Baker's Literary Porn
Friday, July 29, 2011
He’s written books about World War II, poetry, the fate of newspapers. But as a novelist, Nicholson Baker has another side. Back in the 1990s, he published two R-rated works of fic...
Aha Moment: Cy Twombly
Friday, July 22, 2011
In July we lost one of the great American painters — Cy Twombly, who was 83. Twombly defied categories. Unlike the abstract painters of the previous generation, like Jackson Pollock a...
American Icons: Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Friday, July 15, 2011
He was the most famous American in the world – a showman and spin artist who parlayed a buffalo-hunting gig into an entertainment empire. William F. Cody’s stage show presented a ne...
Cy Twombly: Folksinger's Muse
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
We were saddened to learn of the death today of Cy Twombly, the American artist known for his abstract, childlike paintings. A couple years ago on the show, the songwriter Tift Merrit...
The Antlers
Friday, June 10, 2011
In the age of the downloaded single, The Antlers had an unlikely hit with their 2009 concept album Hospice. The main storyline is about coming to terms with the death of a friend. B...
