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Author: Jenny Slate
Nintendo plays the extravagant host in ‘Super Mario Party Jamboree’
‘Jamboree’ feels scattered and altogether too eager to please. But while the game’s a mixed bag, it’s still one of the best in the chaotic Nintendo series.
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Author: James Perkins Mastromarino
‘Disclaimer’ is an absorbing and multi-layered melodrama
In the powerful new Apple TV+ drama Disclaimer, Cate Blanchett plays a woman who’s terrified after she’s sent a novel that’s based on a chapter of her past that she’s desperate to keep secret. From Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón, the series was also stars Kevin Kline, as a man who’s also consumed by the events recounted in the book.
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Author: Linda Holmes
Rapper MAVI on his latest album ‘Shadowbox’
MAVI is a rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina. In recent years, he’s become one to watch. On his latest album Shadowbox his flow teems with self doubt and anxiety. The melodies and samples linger long after the record’s finished. MAVI joins us on the latest episode of Bullseye to discuss the record. The themes in his albums are often filled with pain and loneliness, so get into how he’s been doing lately to handle those feelings.
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D.C. birdwatchers remember the land’s history on Indigenous People’s Day
In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People’s Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.
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Author: Sarah Y Kim
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Author: Jack Handey
Modest moments become revelatory in the wry and incisive ‘Shred Sisters’
Betsy Lerner’s debut novel weaves together the ordinary and the erratic to tell the story of a middle-class Jewish family whose suburban life is turned upside down by mental illness.
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Author: Maureen Corrigan
Riley Keough helps mom Lisa Marie Presley emerge from Elvis’ shadow in a new memoir
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. In From Here to the Great Unknown, Keough details her mother’s unusual life in Graceland and beyond.
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Author: Tonya Mosley
How one Afro-Colombian community honors their ancestry
In the town of Juntas, in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia, the community gathers for Holy Week every year to celebrate the Manacillos festival, an ancestral ritual originating in the upper part of the Yurumangui River.
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Author: Nathalia Angarita
Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel
Gay rights pioneer Arnie Kantrowitz shelved dreams of publishing his novel. Three years after his death, his partner fulfils his wish.
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Author: Ryan Benk