Month: May 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour share what’s bringing them joy. This week: reality television, Eurovision compilations and more.

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Alyssa Gaines, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, has been named the 6th National Youth Poet Laureate.

Senate Republicans have blocked a bill designed to combat domestic terrorism by setting up offices to track domestic terrorist activity and identify risks in order to prevent more incidents like the racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo. What do you think?

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In June, Lansbury will receive the Tony Award for lifetime achievement. The Murder, She Wrote star previously won Tonys for her performances in Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. Originally broadcast in 2000.

PBS’s documentary details how Sondheim’s landmark 1970 musical was adapted to the current Broadway version — pivoting on a gender switch that rewrites the central role as a woman instead of a man.

You can buy a house, have a baby, or invest in cryptocurrency if you want to—but check with me first.

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Microsoft has touted Asian representation on their services throughout AAPI month as they aggressively acquire more games and studios for Xbox.

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After six weeks of constant analysis and content, the verdict is in: We are as a people simply too impatient, stupid, and psychologically stunted to be discussing this trial at all.

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VATICAN CITY—In what theologians are describing as a giant step forward in divine surgery, a team of Vatican scientists successfully transplanted a pig soul into a human for the first time in church history, sources within the Holy See reported Friday. “We were in prayer for more than eight hours, but we’re pleased to…

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