Category: Arts & Entertainment

Willow Winsham’s new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art.

It’s so much fun spending hours gathering the ninety-seven things I’ll need for the day and then layering all of them on my body.

George Wallace has been doing stand-up for fifty years. Known for his evergreen humor, he’s practically royalty in Las Vegas, where he’s done so many residencies he’s lost count. Wallace talks to Bullseye about his love of the 70s, welcoming everyone in the room as a performer, and the influence of preaching on his comedy style.

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Mark Carney once lead the central bank of Canada and then was tapped to do the same job in England. So he knows a lot about government and finance but he has never held elected office. This weekend he was elected to be head of Canada’s Liberal Party which means he’ll soon be prime minister. We learn more about the man who takes the job at a time of strained relations with the U.S.

And the Palestinian city of Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is so renowned for it’s soap that the process of making it has been listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. We go to one of the oldest soap factories there.

Burr is known for his contrarian, fiery stand-up, but lately he’s been feeling lighter on stage. His latest Hulu comedy special is Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years. 

The pandemic decimated the box office and the reshaped the moviegoing experience. NPR’s movie critic, Bob Mondello, looks back on how his job changed during the early months of COVID-19.

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On this week’s My Unsung Hero, Ellen Wyoming DeLoy tells the story of a train conductor who saved her from potential danger.

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Good God Almighty, Holy, and Merciful, how do you get these tear-off produce bags to open?

When twitch streamers can sway elections and viral videos can turn fifteen seconds of fame into hundreds of millions of dollars, it kind of makes you wonder: who’s a real “celebrity” these days? And do they matter like they used to?

With fans fed up over ticket prices and endless product pushing, capital-C “celebrity” seems to be in its flop era. But is it gone for good? And, do we even want it back?

Brittany gets into all of it in front of a live audience at the annual On-Air Fest in Brooklyn with Vulture’s Rachel Handler and Vox senior correspondent Alex Abad-Santos.

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Live television is all about high risk, high reward. Whether it’s musical performances, awards ceremonies, sports events, or comedy shows, there’s an electric charge to watching something as it’s happening. Today, we’re debating the greatest moments of live television in pop culture – including a viral news blooper, John Travolta’s “Adele Dazeem” flub at the Oscars, Kanye stating “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people”, and The Beatles making their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.