Month: May 2025

Concert tickets are more expensive than ever, and according to Live Nation, 2023 was the biggest year ever for concert turnout and ticket sales. So why are indie artists turning to OnlyFans to pay the bills?

This is PART ONE of our new series, Money Troubles.

And for the next few weeks, we’re looking into the ways everyday people are trying to make ends meet… and what it says about how our culture views labor, basic needs, and even our favorite pastimes.

In this episode, Brittany sits down with NPR culture reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento to get into the economic factors driving musicians to digital sex work and what that says about the music industry’s dwindling middle class.

The New World screwworm is endemic in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean — and its northward spread into Mexico has alarmed U.S. officials. It can kill a full-grown cow in one to two weeks. 

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NPR received nearly 500 submissions from around the country and beyond from people who shared favorite memories of their mothers — whether she’s still present for them to hug or lives on in their hearts.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WITF listener Tom Rymsza of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

In our latest installment of Cineplexity, NPR staffers discuss how much horror is too much for kids to watch in movies.

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, guest judge and scorekeeper Alzo Slade, special guest Nathan Lane and panelists Luke Burbank, Roy Blount, Jr., and Shantira Jackson

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The Rubber Duck Museum in Pt. Roberts, Wash., is moving because Canadians are no longer coming to the border town. Neil and Krystal King tell NPR’s Scott Simon why.

The D.C. area band didn’t fall far from the genre’s tree, but it’s ripping out pop-punk’s more problematic roots.

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In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty “for roving bands of wild criminals.” The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.

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(PF.564), 1990; private collection. This bouquet, given to the artist around Mother’s Day in May 1990 by her husband, Albert Lanier, was among the many Asawa sketched over the years.’/>

The late artist Ruth Asawa regularly drew the bouquets people gave her. Years later, some of the sketches made it back to those who gave flowers.

(Image credit: © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier Inc., courtesy David Zwirner; photo: James Paonessa)