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Tommy BazarianTB

Tommy Bazarian

Multimedia ProducerStudio 360
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Carole King in July 1959.
New York Icons
New York Icons: The Brill Building
A moist chocolate cake.
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasure: The word ‘moist’
Roger Deakins on the set of “Jarhead” in 2005.
Media
Cinematographer Roger Deakins doesn’t just shoot pretty pictures
Pianist Kathleen Kelly and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton perform at Carnegie Hall.
Music
Why should tenors have all the fun?
Day Jobs
Day Jobs: Unannounced Standardized Patient
Carter Burwell in Amagansett, NY in 2011
Music
Terms of Art: Carter Burwell clues us in on film composer lingo
Laura Lippman and Edgar Allan Poe.
Books
Touring Edgar Allan Poe’s Baltimore with Laura Lippman
John Cameron Mitchell’s “Anthem: Homunculus”
Music
John Cameron Mitchell’s genre-defying podcast musical
“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, and Helen Phillips.
Aha Moments
Aha Moment: ‘The Metamorphosis’
Nat King Cole performs in Chicago in 1954.
Media
Remembering Nat King Cole
“Patti, you’re the Mayonnaise for me.”
Arts, Culture & Media
The under-‘Doug’: the story of Nickelodeon’s enduring cartoon
Musician Casey Trela
Day Jobs
Day Job: Mastering quality control technician
Just a few of the used copies of the “White Album” that Rutherford Chang owns.
Music
‘We Buy White Albums’
Musician and variety show host Lawrence Welk.
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasure: Learning to love Lawrence Welk
Jazz musician Django Reinhardt
Music
Stephane Wrembel on Django Reinhardt
Musician Casey Trela
Day Jobs
Day Job: Mastering Quality Control Technician
The “David Bowie is” exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
Music
Ch-ch-changes: making the Bowie mashup
Arts, Culture & Media
Extra Credit: How to Make America Out of Popsicle Sticks
Arts, Culture & Media
9 of SNL’s Best Political Sketches Ever
Arts, Culture & Media
Trawl the Depths of YouTube with YouHole.tv
Arts, Culture & Media
Is Kobe Bryant’s ‘Dear Basketball’ a Reimagining of Shakespeare’s Final Soliloquy?
Arts, Culture & Media
That’s All, Folk: Basia Bulat’s Pop Transformation
Arts, Culture & Media
Neal Gabler on the Presidency as a Performance
Arts, Culture & Media
Neal Gabler on the Presidency as a Performance
Arts, Culture & Media
The Art of Hollywood Mockery
Arts, Culture & Media
Day Jobs: Unannounced Standardized Patient
Arts, Culture & Media
Live In-Studio: The Magnetic Fields
Arts, Culture & Media
Terms of Art: Film Composer Lingo with Carter Burwell
Arts, Culture & Media
The Music of “Twin Peaks”
Styx in concert in 1978.
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasure: Defending Styx’s ‘Babe’
Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock in "Practical Magic"
Aha Moments
Aha Moment: ‘Practical Magic’
The punk band, Carsickness
Arts
Michael Chabon — the punk years
Fredrik Saker
Arts
Fredrik Saker’s beautifully-faked ID
B.J Novak
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasure: BJ Novak loves ‘Fuller House’
Carter Burwell in Amagansett, NY in 2011
Arts
Terms of art: Carter Burwell clues us in on film composer lingo
Icelandic Vinarterta with apricot filling.
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasure: The word ‘moist’
Arts
The music of ‘Twin Peaks’