Month: August 2025

The Old Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, Va., features mostly amateur musicians playing Bluegrass and Old Time music. At age 89, it’s the oldest continuous competition of its kind in the U.S.

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Vauhini Vara examines how tech is helping and exploiting us in Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age. Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday, and decline, of magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair.

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This week, we desperately cling to the end of summer with some of our favorite
guests, including Lewis Black, Mo Wagner, Rose Matafeo, and some never-before-heard segements with Atlas Obscura!

A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen adaptations of John Grisham’s legal novels.

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Spike Lee’s latest collaboration with Denzel Washington — their first in nearly 20 years — reimagines a 1963 story about a wealthy businessman. In this version, Washington plays a music executive and Jeffrey Wright plays his chauffeur.

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The Chilean-born actor has faced countless on-screen challenges, including cosmic battles and cartel kingpins. He’s nominated for an Emmy for his role on the HBO series, The Last of Us.

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Denzel Washington stars in a loose remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low. And four anthropomorphic turtles are back in theaters for an anniversary re-release.

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