Benh Zeitlin, the director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, tells Kurt Andersen about his Oscar-nominated debut film, an apocalyptic fairytale set in Louisiana with a six-year-old hero. We visit indie rocker Thao Nguyen in her mother’s laundromat. Plus, the rapper Macklemore says homophobia in hip-hop is so over.
(Segments in this week’s show were broadcast previously.)