Category: Arts & Entertainment

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida.

Pixar’s new movie “Elemental” is directed and co-written by Peter Sohn. It is partly an homage to his childhood growing up in a Korean family in the Bronx.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to actor Robert Englund about his new documentary, “In Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares:The Robert Englund Story” in which he explains why he doesn’t fear being a genre icon.

Bangladeshi-Irish author Adiba Jaigirdar’s latest YA romance promises a spoonful of drama and a dash of deception, leading to a well-baked resolution.

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Sometimes, now as parents, we say things and only a while later realize that it was an echo of our parents, from decades before.

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Why Fathers Cry at Night, is Alexander’s collection of essays and poems about love, divorce and raising children. Chef Lidia Bastianich looks back on her family’s life in Europe after World War II.

James Marsden does it all, from romantic leads to mutants. But his role in Jury Duty may be the hardest of them all: James Marsden, but kind of a jerk? Can he answer our questions about REAL juries?

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A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.

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Critic Linda Holmes has always been a 3D skeptic — the glasses are fiddly and become plastic junk, the gimmicks wear off, it gets distracting, and it introduces opportunities for technical problems.

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