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You could say Callie Khouri’s career has come full circle. But you’d only be kind of right. The native Texan waited tables for a time in Nashville in the '70s and '80s. Then she went on to write the Academy Award-winning screenplay Thelma & Louise, plus a host of other successful features. In 2012, she created her first television show, Nashville, and now she splits her time between L.A. and Music City. The landscape there was familiar. The material, the language, the pace, and the rigor of television was not.

Ben Blacker, No. 83 on our Most Creative People 2013 list and host of the Nerdist Writers Panel (and cocreator of The Thrilling Adventure Hour) spoke with Khouri about what it was like to go from successful feature writing to creating a television show. She let him in on her creative process and some behind-the-scenes insight into how she makes the critically acclaimed Nashville (whose season finale is tonight) feel so cinematic, yet so real.

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The short list of global design destinations includes obvious places, such as Sweden and Italy. Soon, thanks to the efforts of a grassroots movement, the tiny Central American country of El Salvador could make that list as well.

The Carrot Concept launched this year, during New York Design Week, but the project actually began in 2007, when El Salvador ran its first furniture and design exhibition. The show, Contempo, went well. It garnered press and attention for local designers, but, problematically, it presented more one-hit wonders than it did a viable industry. In need of something that could win serious international attention, the designers, architects, and entrepreneurs involved, along with Bernhardt Design (the furniture company based out of North Carolina), placed their bets on a different model: intensive collaboration.

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You could say Callie Khouri's career has come full circle. But you'd only be kind of right. The native Texan waited tables for a time in Nashville in the '70s and '80s. Then she went on to write the Academy Award-winning screenplay Thelma & Louise, plus a host of other successful features. In 2012, she created her first television show, Nashville, and now she splits her time between L.A. and Music City. The landscape there was familiar. The material, the language, the pace, and the rigor of television was not.

Ben Blacker, No. 83 on our Most Creative People 2013 list and host of the Nerdist Writers Panel (and cocreator of The Thrilling Adventure Hour) spoke with Khouri about what it was like to go from successful feature writing to creating a television show. She let him in on her creative process and some behind-the-scenes insight into how she makes the critically acclaimed Nashville (whose season finale is tonight) feel so cinematic, yet so real.

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At the Milan Design Week, furniture usually take center stage. But lucky for booze-loving attendees this year, the fair’s definition of "design" is broad enough to include cocktails, made at, perhaps, the world’s most technologically advanced bar.

Called the MakrShakr, the project is a collaboration between MIT Senseable City Lab and Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architecture firm. Mustachioed mixologists have been replaced by a team of theree robots, capable of making millions and millions--or, to get mathematical, a googol (that’s 1 followed by 100 zeroes)--of drink recipes, created on the spot by the bar’s patrons. "Makr Shakr aims to show the 'Third Industrial Revolution’ paradigm through the simple process design-make-enjoy, and in just the time needed to prepare a new cocktail," explains the project website.

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One incredible aspect of a tornado is its ability to snatch up people's possessions--or event their pets--and deposit them far away.

The day after the May 20 tornado in Oklahoma, a woman named Leslie Hagelberg found a family photograph on her front lawn--90 miles away in West Tulsa. She started a Facebook group to reunite people with their belongings. The group already has over 11,000 members.

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