Peter Crimmins

According to crime statistics from 2009, Camden, New Jersey ranks as America’s most dangerous city. Some residents are looking to the arts to try to turn the city around. With a new theater opening this month, we wondered if an arts district can really save Camden. Produced by Studio 360’s Peter Crimmins.

This summer, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is presenting a retrospective of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work. As part of our American Icons series, Studio 360’s Peter Crimmins finds out why Fallingwater was named the best building of the 20th century.

With the hit movie “Twilight” and HBO’s series “True Blood,” vampires are back in a big way. Peter Crimmins surveys culture’s long obsession with these blood suckers in an attempt to find out why the vampire motif will never die.

The work of the San Diego architect takes its cues from the “informal design” (that’s another way of saying “shantytowns”) of Tijuana. But selling his radical designs to new immigrants is a challenge; they tend to want a house with a white picket fence. Studio 360’s Peter Crimmins crossed the border with Cruz to find out more.

Pastor Keenan Roberts designs ?Hell Houses? which gruesomely display the consequences of sin. Last year, a secular group of artists staged a Hell House in New York City. It got Pastor Roberts’ stamp of approval.