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On this week’s “My Unsung Hero” from Hidden Brain, Caroline Davis was doing a home improvement project that required her to haul about 1,500 pounds of gravel. Someone stepped in to help.

The year in pop pivoted around a trio of artists — Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan — whose music hinged upon assertions of creative ambition and admissions of romantic weakness.

“I didn’t want to brag,” the Malaysian-born comic says. “I just wanted to do the work.” Chieng now costars in the series Interior Chinatown, and has a new Netflix comedy special, Love to Hate It.

Jackson made a cameo in the romantic comedy musical & Juliet on Saturday night. She told NPR: “I got a call, and someone said, ‘We heard that this was your lifelong dream.’ And it is.”

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The year is coming to a close, which can bring a lot of reflection. What went great and what might have gone sideways? Every year we learn lessons on what to improve, what are some of yours?

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Comics, social etiquette and myth-busting stories ruled Life Kit in 2024. That includes guidance on what to do if a partner cheats — and how to tip at fast food joints.

Meet these diagrammatic daredevils and grid-obsessed cultists of yore.

Nobody ever said the housing market was easy. In the new Netflix ensemble dark comedy No Good Deed, a couple played by Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano, along with several other couples and families, get tangled up in the sale of a home that holds a secret.

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All Things Considered producer Elena Burnett makes a convincing case for the movie The Polar Express.

For many of us, Christmas songs are dominating our playlists this week. There’s the one you start hearing in October, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby,” and the Christmas banger that went to number one last year, Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

Lee, now 80, recorded the song when she was 13. The living legend talked to NPR last year when her song — finally — hit number one. We revisit that conversation.

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