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From the football field to the halftime stage, here’s what to know about the storylines and stakes before Super Bowl 59 kicks off on Sunday.

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Objects come from the magic briefcase that I carry around. One time, I gave a guy a surprisingly massive parrot. Don’t ask me how it fit in the briefcase.

There is one economic riddle ahead of Super Bowl Sunday: The egg market has been hit hard by avian flu, but wings are abundant and relatively affordable this year. So what gives?

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The new movie “Jazzy” follows two young girls as they navigate the ups and downs of adolescence in South Dakota. NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with the film’s director and young star.

Shortly after Kendrick Lamar took home five Grammy awards, he’s getting his biggest single audience ever, as the featured artist of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Isabella Rossellini is probably best known as an actor, having acclaimed parts in movies like Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her, and Big Night. She’s also a model, a performance artist, an accomplished singer and even an academic. When Isabella Rossellini joined Bullseye in 2022 she spoke with correspondent Louis Virtel about her role in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, collaborating with David Lynch and why she is attracted to working in experimental film.

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In the new action movie Love Hurts, Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan stars as a real estate agent who has remade his life after leaving the employ of his terrifying gangster brother. But when a beautiful and mysterious former associate (Ariana DeBose) returns into his life, everything goes haywire. The movie has hand fighting and a touch of romance–just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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Kay Sohini’s graphic memoir, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, tells a story of migration and redefinition. Gay Talese gathers many of his great pieces about the city in A Town Without Time.

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After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. The job gave her time to write — and plenty of material to draw from. Her new novel is Soft Core.

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Free imprisoned Capitol insurrectionists. Someone’s gotta replace all the deported farmworkers.