Month: January 2025

Michael Shannon draws questions about his life from the Wild Card deck.

NPR’s Pien Huang speaks with journalist Grace Yeoh, who spent a month with a championship lion dancing team, about the rigors of the dance and what makes it so demanding.

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New England. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story in The Sinners All Bow.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Marian Fowler of Indian Purchase Township, Maine.

Each culture that celebrates the Lunar New Year has traditions passed down from generation to generation that are thought to bring good luck. NPR readers share theirs. 

On Wild Card this week, Michael Shannon — the “The Shape of Water” and “Boardwalk Empire” star — opens up about love and aging.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer died last week at age 95. We hear host Scott Simon’s interview with him last fall, for his middle-grade graphic novel, “Amazing Grapes.”

Downhill skiing has a reputation for being expensive and elitist, but there’s evidence plenty of people are looking for throwback, non-glitzy skiing at America’s remaining mom and pop ski hills.

Pop culture critic Linda Holmes doesn’t want battles or competition in her games — but she loves a satisfying puzzle she can figure out at her own pace. Sound like you, too? Here are recommendations.