Category: Arts & Entertainment

When his wife was battling cancer and ended up in the emergency room, Mike Lopes was worried she wouldn’t recognize anyone there. A nurse made sure there was at least one familiar face caring for her.

Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor spent years researching the racial slur, but never revealed that her father was the legendary comic who used it profusely. Her new book is Something We Said.

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On this week’s Cineplexity, we explore what movies about immigrants teach us about life in America. What movies get the story right? What do they get wrong? And what stories are left untold?

Several artists, including country singer Martina McBride, have withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C.

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The flight to Palma de Mallorca diverted back to Newark late on Saturday. Air traffic audio and social media posts indicate an onboard Bluetooth device raised security concerns.

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Beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s 100th birthday is being marked by celebrations around the world – an appreciation of his importance to poetry and how his influence on the medium continues.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WBEZ listener Larry Birkenmeyer of Glenview, Ill., and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Reality shows are an escape with characters who can be larger than life. But some stars use the experience of fame as a stepping stone toward another challenge: running for political office.

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When she fled Cuba, Ada Ferrer’s mother took only one of her two children. In her new memoir, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer grapples with that decision’s reverberations across generations of her family.

This week, we celebrate an early start to summer by revisiting our interviews with Tiffany Haddish, Taimane, Becca Mann, and Lucy Dacus!

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