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“The New Yorker” is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Art editor Françoise Mouly reflects on the magazine’s distinctive look.

For more than 20 years on screen, Bridget Jones has been making her way through dating, working, having a baby, and even ending up in jail. Now in the fourth film, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is dealing with a whole new phase of life, and a new pair of possible love interests.

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Keke Palmer and SZA play two down on their luck friends who run into a series of hilarious unfortunate events in One of Them Days.

Host Brittany Luse and IBAM producer Corey Antonio Rose joined NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour to discuss how this raunchy affair pulls off a story about friendship, unreasonable landlords, and gentrification.

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For Frankie Muniz, balancing a career as a professional NASCAR driver and a TV actor isn’t a fantasy; it’ll be his very busy reality this upcoming year.

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Adam Ratner predicts the appointment of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: “It is much easier to scare people than to unscare them,” he says.

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Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.

Can you understand the phrases concerning my death? Excellent! You’re doing a great job!

The Library of Congress has preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents sent into the field during the battles at Iwo Jima 80 years ago. The correspondents recorded everything from “choral rituals and music in the islands of the Pacific” to interviews with soldiers and the sounds of battle.

The Peacock reality show The Traitors continues to be a delightful mix of treachery, foolishness, and Alan Cumming’s outfits. In the United States, the cast is made up exclusively of so-called celebrities. So today on the show we’re fantasy casting who we think should be on the next season of The Traitors.

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The ranchera and bolero singer took aim at machismo as if it were a piñata. For decades, she wrote and sang feminist anthems full of pain, rage and empowerment.

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