Tag: humor

At 84 years old, Margaret Atwood’s new book Paper Boat is a collection of her poems spanning over six decades. She talked about the skepticism she faced at the beginning of her career.

The Succession actor plays lawyer Roy Cohn in a new film. Strong says U.S. distributors were reluctant to pick up The Apprentice because of “repercussions from a possible Trump administration.”

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We’re in a pretty critical election year. And in times like these, a lot of us are turning to political comedy to help make sense of (and fun of) the bizarre, ongoing news cycle. Today on the show, we’re talking about how late night comedy shows like Saturday Night Live, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and The Daily Show are speaking to the moment.

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Who will win today’s cage match?

For the past two months Brittany has been hosting debates in cities and regions across the United States to find out who and what are the most influential things from those places. Today, she ends her tour in her hometown. It’s a homecoming of sorts. Beyoncé style.

For the last episode in the series, Brittany lands in Detroit, Michigan, and debates with Tia Graham, co-host of WDET’s CultureShift and Cary Junior II, producer for WDET’s Created Equal. There will be winners. There will be losers. There will be surprises.

Before it was a state, Colorado was part of Mexico. Evidence of its Mexican roots aren’t always obvious unless one knows where to look.

A San Francisco man has a new spin on surveillance technology. He uses a solar-powered android phone running the song identifier app Shazam to listen and record the music passersby are listening to.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA’s spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.

The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell’s early life as a boy growing up in Virginia Beach and follows his trajectory to a Grammy-winning songwriter, performer and producer.

I’m scared, but I have to keep moving. To stop is to die, or, worse, to be force-fed a clip of Ricky Gervais saying words.

A septuagenarian multi-media artist is on a road trip with two young filmmakers and a new print of a groundbreaking movie she made three decades ago.