Category: Arts & Entertainment

NPR has an appetite for great recipes — every year, plenty of cookbooks get thrown in the mix as we assemble our annual Books We Love guide. Here’s a sampling of our food favorites from 2024.

Food recalls fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic but are on an uptick now. Here’s how the government is tracing outbreaks — and some tips on handling food safely to minimize the risk of illness.

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Need to forget the state of the world? Escape to this city hideaway, complete with non-leaky air mattresses and easy access to the fire escape through a hidden kitchen nook!

You are awarded a military contract; collect $100 billion and nuclear codes. And other Community Chest and Chance cards for the new monopolists.

The new Netflix series Black Doves is a pulpy and stylish British spy show starring Keira Knightly and Ben Whishaw. Knightly plays a politician’s wife who’s been secretly funnelling information to a mysterious spy network for years, and Whishaw plays her old partner who’s been out of the game. But when Knightly’s character gets targeted, Whishaw’s returns to protect her. It’s all set in London at Christmastime, so if you like your holiday cheer spiced with British wit and gunplay, Black Doves may be for you.

The stars came out to celebrate this year’s Kennedy Center Honorees: Bonnie Raitt, the Grateful Dead, Arturo Sandoval, Francis Ford Coppola and The Apollo. The Honors broadcast on CBS on Dec. 22.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to U.S. college student Juliette Sartori about how her an idea for a new club, Dinner with a Stranger, became a huge hit at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Listener Ernie Thurston of Asheville, N.C., plays the puzzle with NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe.

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Nick Frost on his newest horror comedy and what makes the slasher funny.

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