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No one show swept this year — and it turns out, that’s a good thing.

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NPR gives the rundown of who won big and who was snubbed at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday night.

Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme is classic Wes Anderson, complete with a great cast delivering heightened dialogue and stylized cinematography. It stars Benicio del Toro as one of Europe’s richest men, an amoral industrialist, who, along with his daughter (Mia Threapleton) and a tutor (Michael Cera), travels to convince his business partners to fund his latest venture. But where does the film rank among Anderson’s past movies?

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A black-and-white photo of a Las Vegas dancer posing in a mushroom-cloud swimsuit became iconic of America’s “atomic age,” but for decades her identity was unknown. The mystery has finally been solved.

Chess is seeing a global resurgence, sparked by The Queen’s Gambit and the pandemic impact on leisure time. India is an emerging power player, with 85 grandmasters and intense chess schools for youth.

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June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KNRW listener Carina Aleckson of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR’s Life Kit explains the basic rules of texting etiquette.

Biographer Todd Purdum says Arnaz was more than just “second banana” to Lucy. David Bianculli reviews Pee-wee as Himself. Hamill’s film, The Life of Chuck, is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella.

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Patterson is accused of putting death cap mushrooms in a meal she served her estranged husband’s relatives in July 2023, killing three. She took the stand in Week 6 of the trial gripping Australia.

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