Category: Arts & Entertainment

A California fourth-grader’s interview with her grandfather, who was forced out of Uganda before moving to the U.S., is one of our outstanding podcasts.

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We’re back with “All the Lonely People,” a series diving deep into how loneliness shows up in our lives.

This week: can tech cure our loneliness? Companies like Meeno (an AI relationship coaching app), Peoplehood (a platform that organizes guided group conversations), Timeleft (an app which matches strangers for dinner), and Bumble for Friends all say they want to help people make more and better connections. But do we need tech solutions to what may partially be a tech problem? Brittany sits down with Sam Pressler, who studies community and social connection at the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy, and Vauhini Vara, veteran tech reporter and author of the upcoming book Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, to break it all down.

The standard line for awards season goes: “It’s an honor just to be nominated.” But when it comes to the Oscars, there’s quite a long list of great performers who have never received this honor. Today, we’re talking about some of our favorites who should have at least one Oscar on their mantle — including Pam Grier, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, and Regina Hall.

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Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong’s innovations helped set the soundtrack of the 20th century. John Powers reviews I’m Still Here. The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson talks about the “anti-social” century.

News of Amazon’s takeover of the 007 franchise has shaken and stirred James Bond fans in the secret agent’s homeland of Britain.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPCC listener Seth Bowling of Long Beach, Calif., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black mayor of a town to singing music about change, these stories matter.

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This year brings memoirs from more than a dozen famous names — from Brooke Shields and Dawn Staley to Bill Belichick and Lionel Ritchie.

Why is it that a list of young A-list stars contains so few Black actors?