Month: December 2025

The new movie stars Lucy Liu as an ailing mother to Joe, played by Lawrence Shou as a teenager facing mental illness in his feature debut role.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KQED listener Mike Rombach of Pleasanton, California and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.



This week, Wait Wait is live in Phoenix with host Peter Sagal, special guest judge and scorekeeper Alzo Slade, special guest Andy Richter and panelists Shantira Jackson

, Luke Burbank, and Alonzo Bodden.

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As a member of Stax Records’ Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Cropper helped create some of the most important Southern soul music of the ’60s. He died Dec. 3. Originally broadcast in 1990.

NPR’s Eyder Peralta speaks with Esteban Touma, language expert from the app Babbel about 2025’s most mispronounced words.

On the surface it’s a gorgeous, hardscrabble Western, awash in stark landscapes, grubby faces, bar fights and banditry. But scratch away the grime, and you expose the pure, glitzy soap opera beneath.

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In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays a movie star struggling with work and family life. Ken Tucker recommends new holiday music. Tazewell created more than 1,000 looks for Wicked: For Good.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don’t talk about. Podcaster and author Mel Robbins opens up about her early failures.

The Ganges River in India is a final resting place for the ashes of loved ones. For those who can’t make the journey, a river in Florida has become a substitute for the funeral tradition.

Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. “I’ve always been for optimism and architecture not being sad,” he said.

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