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The Academy Awards are tonight and critics are predicting what will win Best Picture and who will win Best Actor and Actress. We hear about the nominees and our critic’s picks.

Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KCUR listener Justin Marciniak and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

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The surveillance industry version of HG Wells’ 1898 classic sci-fi novel stars Ice Cube, and won accolades for worst picture, actor, director and more.

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Best picture nominees are spending less time in wide release. But indie theater owners say Oscar season is still a draw.

The Oscars start at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, airing on ABC and streaming on Hulu.

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No matter what happens at the Oscars, Lindo says he’s embracing “the joy of this moment.” Jones’ novel Kin tells the story of two young women who grow up next door to each other without their mothers.

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Georgia O’Keeffe called the New Mexico high desert “my country,” but Pueblo peoples predated her. A more complex view is emerging amid efforts to preserve the land.

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Melania at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2026.’/>

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump announced Friday afternoon that Richard Grenell is leaving the Kennedy Center. The arts complex is scheduled to close in July for renovations.

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Despite rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies, a growing number of young Americans are becoming captivated by China, as seen in the online trend “Chinamaxxing.”

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