Jocelyn Gonzales

By Jocelyn Gonzales • 54 minutes ago SLT3143256569.mp3 Studio 360 broadcast its first episode on November 4, 2000, just before George W. Bush was elected as President and we all learned what a “hanging chad” was. Fittingly, that first program was an exploration of art and politics hosted by a newcomer to radio, author and journalist Kurt Andersen.

Studio 360 broadcast its first episode on November 4, 2000, just before George W. Bush was elected as President and we all learned what a “hanging chad” was. Fittingly, that first program was an exploration of art and politics hosted by a newcomer to radio, author and journalist Kurt Andersen. Originally produced out of public radio station WNYC, and most recently a Slate podcast, Studio 360 looks at the cool, but complicated, and sometimes strange ways that art touches our lives.

"Sweet Valley High" — a wildly popular YA book series first published in the ’80s  — is about the Wakefields, a pair of perfect blonde twins from a fictional town in California called Sweet Valley. The books were so popular, they spawned over 600 books including multiple spin-off series, audiobooks, a TV series, a comic book — and now, in 2020, a movie that's reportedly in development.