Category: Arts & Entertainment

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The longtime bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers has his first solo album. “I’m making music that occupies its own place in the world and that feels that’s good to me,” Flea says of Honora.

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Here are a few things I’d rather do than log in to a portal: Get three mosquito bites. Drive all the way to Encino to have something notarized.

Forty years ago, a 19-year-old woman sat behind the wheel of her car, sobbing and feeling like her life had fallen apart. A stranger pulled up beside her at a stoplight and lifted her spirits.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Aadam Jacobs about his massive archive of taped concert recordings from the 1980s and 1990s, and the grassroots effort to get them digitized.

Two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner ended in gunfire, Kimmel delivered a mock Correspondents’ Dinner speech during a sketch on his show. The first lady said it was “corrosive.”

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Best known for his role as Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation, Offerman plays a former professional wrestler reconnecting with his estranged daughter in Margo’s Got Money Troubles.

A new Netflix comedy series by and starring Dan Levy is a wild inversion of Schitt’s Creek. Where that show started out cartoonish and grew warmer, Big Mistakes is a frolic that grows more hellish.

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Spring is here, and with it sightings of the Great-breasted Hausfrau, the Pot-Bellied Galoot, and the Common Nanny.

NPR’s Rob Schmitz speaks with Stephen Thompson and Marc Rivers about which movie biopics make the cut, and the ones that don’t.

Yousafzai talks about life before and after being shot by a Taliban gunman. Maureen Corrigan reviews three gutsy new novels. Isaac struggled with Beef, so he turned to Frankenstein for help.

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