Month: February 2025

Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. And there may be no relief in sight

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As a kid, Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. “I looked up to Whitney and Mariah and Celine endlessly,” she says. “I think that’s a large part of the reason why I learned to sing.”

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The lawsuit alleges that Gaiman coerced sexual services from his former live-in nanny, and that Palmer “knowingly benefited” from Gaiman’s actions.

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Journaling and journalism are different. One ends in “-ing” and the other ends in “-ism.”

Leaders of a Baptist church in North Carolina ousted the pastor after congregants started leaving. A secret tape provides a rare look at the debate when a message threatens a business model.

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Robell Awake is a chairmaker and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks with NPR’s Michel Martin about his new book, “A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects.”

We watched many films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Today, we’re recommending some of the best things we saw, including a thrilling debut from a writer on The Bear, a timely doc about the wave of book bans across America, and a bizarro horror comedy starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco.

For a complete list of the movies we loved at Sundance, Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd

Stanley Tucci is handsome, a great cook, a killer dresser and, of course, an excellent actor. Most recently, he stars in the Oscar nominated drama Conclave. He also had a part in the mega budget action series Citadel – a show he told us he had a lot of fun working on.

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