Tag: humor

In his new play The Other Americans, John Leguizamo stars as a Colombian American laundromat owner whose son is released from a mental wellness facility after suffering a trauma. The play’s world premiere is at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

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We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.

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Golson, who died Sept. 21, captured the sunny optimism of American in the late ’50s and early ’60s. He composed internal music for hit TV shows and appeared as himself in the 2004 film The Terminal.

New Yorker journalist David Kirkpatrick says a government command hub has been tasked with tracking and protecting U.S. elections from foreign adversaries who seek to sow discord and foment violence.

An NPR listener is graduating soon with her MBA. She wants to know if it’s OK celebrate her achievement by asking loved ones to buy her gifts from a registry, similar to what people do for weddings.

Netflix’s The Diplomat rides a compelling line between serving up hefty slices of political and emotional drama.

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Witches and skeletons make sense for this holiday, but your guess is as good as mine when it comes to “a general spooky vibe.”

In the Netflix drama The Diplomat, Keri Russell plays an ambassador who’s thrust into an international incident with massive stakes. She’s also sorting through a tumultuous marriage with her husband, a hotshot veteran diplomat (Rufus Sewell). The series combines the tension of Homeland with the administrative drama of The West Wing. The Diplomat just returned for a new season, so in this encore episode, we revisit our conversation about the series.

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New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger says the America First Policy Institute, which has nearly 300 executive orders ready to be signed, would influence a Trump second term more than Project 2025.

In this almost perfect little film, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who reconnect in Poland to honor the memory of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.