Month: January 2025

The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his concerns about how intertwined politics and religion had become. Carter died on Dec. 29 at age 100.

The Palisades Fire reached the Getty Villa museum but didn’t harm its collection. NPR speaks with Katherine Fleming, president and CEO of the Getty Trust, about how the museum protects its antiques.

From the fictional story of a pregnant woman stuck in an IKEA during an earthquake, to in-depth reporting on Alzheimer’s research, here are the books we’re looking forward to in the next few months.

When Charlie Essers arrived at the scene of his wife’s bike accident, he found four women shielding and soothing her until emergency crews could arrive.

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How about this for fun: let’s try pasteurizing our own milk.

In the past year, there have been a lot of movies that feature older women falling in love with much younger men. There’s The Idea Of You, A Family Affair, Lonely Planet, and Babygirl, just to name a few. But why now? Today we’re bringing you an episode of the NPR podcast It’s Been A Minute. In this episode, host Brittany Luse sits down with New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler to unpack what these films say about Hollywood’s changing attitudes towards older women and why the category of, quote-unquote, “women’s film” still feels behind the times. behind the times.

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. “A life spent considering how we’re going to spend our end is not wasted time,” Swinton says.

What do you say to people when they ask you why you aren’t drinking? How do you get your friends to hang out in places other than bars? We tackle the social conundrums of sober socializing.

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Jimmy Carter loved watching movies and he’s credited with putting his home state of Georgia on the movie making list for Hollywood studios.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the beloved stop-motion animation series. This time, clueless inventor Wallace and his long-suffering pooch Gromit are dealing with Wallace’s latest invention, a robotic garden gnome. But when an old enemy gets involved, they must face down an army of evil robots and expose the criminal mastermind behind it all.

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