Month: October 2025

The annual hot air balloon festival fills the skies of this desert city with colorful hot air balloons.

Lorelai and Rory Gilmore’s fictional hometown of Stars Hollow was born after Gilmore Girls creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, stayed in northwestern Connecticut. The show premiered in the fall of 2000.

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A headline-grabbing study touting apple cider vinegar for weight loss has been retracted. Other claims for the internet-famous remedy are also under fire.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Minnesota Public Radio listener Erin Rhode of Plymouth, Minnesota along with Weekend Edition Puzzle Master Will Shortz.

Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

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Squibb explains how she lobbied Johansson to direct Eleanor The Great. Ronson’s memoir, Night People, is a love letter to late-night 1990s New York City.

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NPR’s Scott Simon asks NBC News Entertainment Correspondent Chloe Melas about the sentence handed to Sean Combs for two prostitution-related charges.

Once the province of elite fashion editors and forecasters, the art of figuring out what’s likely to fly off future racks is getting an assist from AI algorithms.

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What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak) is a new kids’ book of letter poems to friends.

Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera star in the true story of a bus driver and a schoolteacher who bring a bus full of children to safety during California’s devastating 2018 Camp Fire.