Month: June 2025

Del Toro talks about his role in Wes Anderson’s new film, The Phoenician Scheme. Justin Chang reviews Materialists. In How to Lose Your Mother, author Jong-Fast reflects on life with mom Erica Jong.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WITF listener Travis DiNicola and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

A new collection of essays by New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts, provides rich research and material for the conversation about extreme wealth in America today.

One of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, Kaye was listed alongside the late record producer Thom Bell and the late pianist Nicky Hopkins as inductees in the Musical Excellence category.

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This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Ibtihaj Muhammad and panelists Jeff Hiller, Rachel Coster, and Hari Kondabolu

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This week, special guest Ibtihaj Muhammad joins Hari Kondabolu, Rachel Coster, and new panelist Jeff Hiller!

Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.

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A remarkable archaeological find in the heart of London has revealed one of the most extensive collections of Roman frescoes ever found in the city.

A money-obsessed NYC matchmaker is wooed by a financial investor and a cater waiter in a romantic drama that has its protagonist finding strength and emotional growth via a side character’s suffering.

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After working as an emergency medicine physician in Kansas City for years, Kathryn Miner started exploring other ways to help people in her community and pursued lifestyle and culinary medicine.