The Friend tells a story of two creatures who lose someone they love and find each other. She’s a writer. He’s… a dog. Naomi Watts gets top billing, but her screen partner is also a star.
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Author: Diane Orson
‘The White Lotus’ season 3 ends with several bangs
Season three of The White Lotus just wrapped up, but not before serving up a tropical buffet of sex, betrayal, violence, revenge, privilege, incest, drugs, death, and spirituality. We finally found out whose dead body was floating in the pond way back in the season premiere. From creator Mike White, this season stars Walton Goggins, Carrie Coon, Natasha Rothwell, Aimee Lou Wood, Parker Posey, and Lisa of BLACKPINK fame.
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Author: Glen Weldon
Embracing a more traditional sound, Bad Bunny strikes a chord in Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny’s record is an expression of the real fears and challenges many Puerto Ricans are facing of a loss of culture due to gentrification of the island. The album’s mission is making an impact.
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Author: Anamaria Artemisa Sayre
What’s on TV: ‘Hacks,’ ‘Doctor Who’ and a final season for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
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The sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, which debuts Tuesday, explores questions of trauma and revenge. Also this week: Hacks returns and Jon Hamm stars in a layered whodunit.
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Author: Eric Deggans
Michelle Williams is brilliantly comic — and tragic — in Hulu’s ‘Dying for Sex’
A long-married woman with terminal cancer leaves her husband and embarks on a quest for sexual satisfaction in a miniseries that’s so real and so raw it’s likely to make you both laugh and cry.
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Author: David Bianculli
Actor David Tennant does it all, from ‘Doctor Who’ to Shakespeare to podcasting
The Scottish actor played Doctor Who for five years, and has been the lead in many Shakespearean plays. His podcast, David Tennant Does a Podcast With… is now in its third season.
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Author: Sam Briger
Return of the Plastic Straw
Paper straws are out at the Department of Justice. Also banned: Dijon mustard, flimsy paper napkins, and the word “Whiffenpoof.”
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Author: John Kenney
Fresh Air Weekend: Amanda Knox; ‘Adolescence’ creator and star Stephen Graham
Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit. Her memoir is Free. Ken Tucker reviews new albums by Lucy Dacus and Jeffrey Lewis. Graham discusses youth violence.
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Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes tell the story of public housing in a new museum
The National Public Housing Museum opened April 4 in Chicago, with installations and exhibits as well as intimate individual, family, and community stories of living in public housing.
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Author: Alison Cuddy
Sunday Puzzle: What’s that familiar phrase?
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WSHU listener Ted Heyn of Fairfield, Connecticut, along with Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
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Author: Will Shortz