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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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Until recently, the long-running British show was too often content with iteration. Actor Ncuti Gatwa brought an unapologetic queerness to the character of the Doctor.

Here’s how the Turkish city of Gaziantep became synonymous with baklava, the sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough, filled with nuts and soaked in syrup or honey.

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The global LGBTQ+ festival was held for the first time in the nation’s capital. Organizers say the current political environment has dampened the excitement surrounding the celebration.

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This week, NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon joins panelists Zach Zimmerman, Adam Burke, and Negin Farsad

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Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan’s famous opera house.

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Mike Flanagan’s new film, a maudlin mystery about a man dying of cancer, feels hobbled by its extreme faithfulness to the Stephen King novella on which its based.