Tag: humor

The Sunrise Dance is a four-day coming-of-age ceremony — a significant and highly spiritual event for the young lady and the Apache community.

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Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, a Boston cop, in 2022. She maintains she was framed by police. Here’s a refresher on the case — and a look at what’s happened since last year’s mistrial.

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It’s hard out there for single women who date men. You’ve maybe heard friends complaining about the dating pool, or perhaps you yourself are navigating its murky waters. According to economics reporter Rachel Wolfe at The Wall Street Journal, American women are giving up on marriage, with only 34% of single women looking for romance, versus 54% of single men.

Brittany is joined by Rachel, alongside Minda Honey, author of her memoir, The Heartbreak Years. Together they talk about the key reasons why women are less and less interested in the prospect of dating, let alone getting married.

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Misericordia is one of the most surprising films our critic’s seen this year. It focuses on a man who returns to his small village for a funeral — only to become enmeshed in countless entanglements.

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, indie studios showed off ambitious games made by small development teams.

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Nunez’s 2018 novel won the National Book Award. It’s now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend’s suicide. Originally broadcast in 2019.

Ahmed al-Sharaa founded the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, but is now advocating unity. The Atlantic’s Robert Worth discusses al-Sharaa’s leadership and the Trump administration’s group chat on Signal.

 

NPR’s Emily Kwong speaks with director Trương Minh Quý about his new film Việt and Nam. It follows the journey of two young miners as they search for intimacy and escape.

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John Green’s new book Everything Is Tuberculosis shares the same goal as his other work: to make the world “suck less.” In this week’s Wild Card, he shares how he battles despair.

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We were raised on red-40 cereals and people-pleasing! Shouldn’t any of that count for something?!