Category: Arts & Entertainment

This week, Wait Wait celebrates Thanksgiving with a cornucopia of great guests!

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and also an earworm for many. Here, she sings at a 2014 holiday concert in New York City.’/>

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish “Jingle Bells,” “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.

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Mall of America’s recipe for success includes an amusement park, pop-up stores, weddings and raves. Can local malls take a page from the country’s largest shopping center?

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All cheese is expired. This one’s just becoming “bleu” around the edges.

Meet the people who make the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, where balloons fly and imaginations soar.

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Years ago, the acclaimed cellist asked a high school student to help him name his instrument. He brought his cello — aka “Petunia” — in for music and conversation during this May 2024 interview.

NPR’s A Martinez talks to journalist Brande Victorian about her favorite holiday movies. She wrote a piece for “The Hollywood Reporter” entitled: “36 Thanksgiving Movies to feast on this Season.”

Macy’s is promising its largest Thanksgiving Day parade yet, exactly 100 years after the tradition first started. Here’s a look at what to expect and how to watch.

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Football isn’t the only thing Americans like to watch on Thanksgiving. The National Dog Show continues its decades-long run, this time with a brand new breed. Here’s what to know and how to watch.

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Haynes, who died Nov. 12, was a heavy hitter, whose limber beat could lift the bandstand. His 65-year recording career was studded with more classics than we have time to even hint at.