Month: August 2025

The annual event pits some of the trading card and video game’s most seasoned players against each other — and it demonstrates how Pokémon has maintained its grip on pop culture.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested John Shin, who has played with the Utah Symphony and Ballet West. The Department of Homeland Security cited his 2019 DUI conviction as the reason.

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The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Princes of Surf exhibition tells of how three visiting Hawaiian princes brought the sport to these shores 140 years ago.

The 1989 film The War of the Roses was a nihilistic story of a dissolving marriage. A new reimagining starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch plays like a standard studio comedy.

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Experts answer a round of finance questions from NPR’s audience, including how to financially support a friend with Stage 4 cancer and how to stop paying for your parents. 

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Before he entered politics, most Americans knew Donald Trump as an entertainer. In his second term, he’s taken aim at cultural institutions.