Month: October 2024

Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winning poet talks about parenting in war and the devastation of leaving his family and friends behind.

When I have yogurt, I like to pretend that it is a ceremonial custard made by elves for an honored guest who is visiting from afar.

‘Jamboree’ feels scattered and altogether too eager to please. But while the game’s a mixed bag, it’s still one of the best in the chaotic Nintendo series.

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In the powerful new Apple TV+ drama Disclaimer, Cate Blanchett plays a woman who’s terrified after she’s sent a novel that’s based on a chapter of her past that she’s desperate to keep secret. From Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón, the series was also stars Kevin Kline, as a man who’s also consumed by the events recounted in the book.

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MAVI is a rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina. In recent years, he’s become one to watch. On his latest album Shadowbox his flow teems with self doubt and anxiety. The melodies and samples linger long after the record’s finished. MAVI joins us on the latest episode of Bullseye to discuss the record. The themes in his albums are often filled with pain and loneliness, so get into how he’s been doing lately to handle those feelings.

In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People’s Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.

Under the secret police’s new rules, officially, the word “yee-haw” no longer exists. Nor does the phrase “Watch me go!”

Betsy Lerner’s debut novel weaves together the ordinary and the erratic to tell the story of a middle-class Jewish family whose suburban life is turned upside down by mental illness.

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. In From Here to the Great Unknown, Keough details her mother’s unusual life in Graceland and beyond.

In the town of Juntas, in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia, the community gathers for Holy Week every year to celebrate the Manacillos festival, an ancestral ritual originating in the upper part of the Yurumangui River.

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