Month: August 2025

Parade, the Tony award-winning musical about the 1915 lynching of a Jewish man, begins its run in Washington, D.C. amid an antisemitic backlash against the show’s subject.

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We launched Pop Culture Happy Hour 15 years ago this summer, and we had a lot of pent-up hot takes. To celebrate this milestone, today we’re breaking open a time capsule to revisit some of our memorable early moments and see how they’ve held up.

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Growing up with immigrant parents, first in Canada and then in the U.S., Yang was “obsessed” with pop culture and Saturday Night Live. Now he’s up for an Emmy for his performances on the venerated sketch series.

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PBS has been a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. But with the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonfiction storytellers have to figure out a way forward.

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Spike Lee’s new crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest reunites him with his favorite leading man, Denzel Washington. The film is based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic High and Low, and it’s a tense story about a very rich man with a very big problem. Part morality play and part action movie, Washington plays a music mogul who confronts questions of responsibility and power when he believes his son has been kidnapped.

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Everything’s shot. Why not laugh about it?

Plotlines we’ll never see: Carrie grapples with shoe tariffs, and Miranda moves into the sewers.

The novel Women Seated is a thriller about a nanny for a rich family and a kidnapping gone awry. It’s the first in a new effort to redefine the types of Chinese literature get translated into English.

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The English actor was best known for starring as the arch-villain in the original Superman films and for depicting the title character in Billy Budd.

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Creator Noah Hawley talks about his new show, Alien: Earth, and the creatures bringing primal fear to the small screen.