Month: March 2025

In the very funny new satire The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a Hollywood studio head desperately trying to do a job he’s afraid of failing at every single day. The Apple TV+ series features comedy MVPs like Catherine O’Hara, Bryan Cranston, and Kathryn Hahn, but also cameos from actors and directors playing themselves — including Anthony Mackie, Zoë Kravitz, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and Ice Cube.

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Who says there are no historical precedents for accidentally including a journalist on top-secret war plans?

Cesar Chavez Day celebrates the life and legacy of the labor rights icon.

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An affable lottery winner decides to bring his favorite singer to a remote island off the coast of Wales for a private concert. Turns out, he’s invited the singer’s ex-bandmate/ex-girlfriend, too.

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In Pasadena, The Gamble House was in a fire evacuation zone and its custodians are trying to safeguard its future. In Altadena, only concrete walls are left from the former home of novelist Zane Grey.

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President Trump signed an executive order last week aimed at “restoring truth and sanity to American history” through an overhaul of the Smithsonian Institution and historical sites around the U.S.

Kureishi began his memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. David Bianculli reviews the TV mystery Ludwig. Risen used newly declassified sources in his new book on McCarthyism.

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Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series “Dr. Kildare” who found a second career as an award-winning “king of the miniseries,” has died. He was 90.

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The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?

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NPR’s Eyder Peralta plays the puzzle with WKSU listener Amy Anderson of Aurora, Ohio, along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.