Month: December 2022

As 2022 comes to an end, here are your text, emoji, and group-chat highlights from the past year!

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James Gray’s Armageddon Time was inspired by his childhood in Queens in the 1980s. And physician Siddhartha Mukherjee explains how cellular science could lead to breakthroughs in The Song of the Cell.

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Dana Carvey is a comedy legend, who after starring in SNL and some of the biggest comedies of all time, created his own podcast The Weird Place. We ask him 3 questions about carvers, or steakhouses.

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The Academy Award-winner and activist was known as the “godmother of American independent documentaries.” She saw herself as a feminist and the curator of Midwestern stories.

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Mr. Christmas, Frank Hudak of Richmond, VA is ready to retire his home’s dazzling light display after decades of holiday cheer. He talks with NPR’s Sarah McCammon about it.

NPR’s Sarah McCammon speaks with director Laura Poitras about her new documentary, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” a chronicle of photographer Nan Goldin’s activism in the opioid epidemic.

It’s been a busy season for celebrity memoirs. A-listers from the worlds of Hollywood, music, journalism and royalty dish their own stories in these recent and upcoming books.

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Our democracy is relying on YOUR $15! What were you even gonna spend it on? Three coffees? Wow.

Many men in South Korea claim to be victims of gender discrimination, a movement turbocharged by President Yoon. Meanwhile, women lag far behind men in pay and face unrealistic beauty standards.

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