Category: Arts & Entertainment

Under the secret police’s new rules, officially, the word “yee-haw” no longer exists. Nor does the phrase “Watch me go!”

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.

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.

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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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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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WERN listener Bob Jahn of Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

Author Travis Jonker and illustrator Matthew Cordell talk about the real model ship that inspired their picture book about a man, his son, a mouse, and the voyage that brings them together.

Gael García Bernal was basically fated to be an actor. He talks to NPR’s Wild Card about being the best version of himself, how he thinks about death and what has surprised him about getting older.

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Life Kit’s Andee Tagle has tips on how to transition your wardrobe if you’re going through life changes.

Maybe you rented them from Blockbuster on VHS, or maybe you’re seeing them for the first time — but there was an age when nearly every movie actor took a swing at romantic comedy. And it was glorious.