Month: October 2024

Seth Meyers opens up about his time on Saturday Night Live, his relationship with his parents, and how ambition led him away from his strengths.

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College students often use posters to help spruce up their dorm. At the University of Chicago, they get a chance to borrow works by prominent artists for a year.

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The 1931 Spanish-language Drácula will get its first film score. It was among the early “talkies,” when filmmakers hadn’t quite yet figured out how to incorporate music into their craft.

If you’ve spent the day canvassing and just need to take a breather, here are three games that have hit the spot recently for our pop culture critic.

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“Leaders are not born,” Granny says. “They’re made through molding and modeling.” That’s why she and her granddaughter and putting on their hats and coats and walking to the polls.

This week, sports power couple Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe talk about their podcast, who’s more competitive, and where they keep their medals

Musician Laura Marling is out with a new album called, Patterns in Repeat.

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Olivia Kuan about her documentary, The Herricanes, about her mom’s professional football career and the National Women’s Football League.

The same songs are sitting at the top of the music charts longer than ever, and that has Brittany Luse wondering, are our listening habits stuck in a doom loop? Brittany chats with NPR music editor Stephen Thompson to get to the bottom of the top of the charts.

Plus, when a daughter or sister disappears how does a family move on without closure? Host Brittany Luse is joined by Fresh Air co-host Tonya Mosley and and her nephew Antonio Wiley to talk about their new kind of true crime podcast, She Has A Name.

Ken Tucker reviews Robert Hilburn’s biography of Newman, A Few Words in Defense of Our Country. Plus, we listen back to a 1998 archival interview with the Grammy Award-winning artist.