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NPR’s Debbie Elliott talks with Celine Song, who wrote and directed the new film “Materialists.” Song shares what she learned working as a matchmaker earlier in her career.

Student Ava Gilberg-Stroud picked up the drums at a young age to feel closer to her dad. She interviewed him to learn about how he first got into music for the PBS News Student Reporting Labs.

Shuai Wang thought he’d peaked before competing on Top Chef. But over a plate of food at King BBQ, the chef tells NPR’s Debbie Elliott he now knows his career is just getting started.

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Reporter Kevin Sack’s new book is a history of Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

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Tom Hiddleston stars in the new adaptation of Stephen King’s novella — which is somehow a very sweet film about the inevitable approach of death.

The annual Play Days showcase was far more interesting than the reveals themselves.

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Wilson, who died at age 82, was the creative force behind The Beach Boys. He wrote and produced many hits, including “Good Vibrations” and “God Only Knows.” Originally broadcast in ’88 and ’98.

Disney has been remaking its animated classics for years to great financial success – Lilo & Stitch has been dominating the box office for weeks now. So it’s no surprise that DreamWorks is now getting in on the action with a remake of How to Train Your Dragon. It’s full of epic battles, majestic countrysides and, of course, dragons galore.

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The characters in the romantic comedy Materialists, Celine Song’s follow-up to Past Lives, see the dating pool in terms of the “market” – people are evaluated by how “competitive” they are and marriage is treated like an equation to be solved.

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