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Chanell Stone photographs places like overgrown lots and green spaces at public housing projects, often including herself in the frame. Above, "In search of a certain Eden," 2019, Brooklyn.

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Housing Projects And Empty Lots. How Chanell Stone Is Reframing Nature Photography

7:00am February 27, 2021

by Will Matsuda

Chanell Stone wants to change how people think about nature photography. "As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren't for us," she says. "I want to turn that idea on its head."

Love is for Losers, by Wibke Brueggemann

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Love May Be 'For Losers,' But This Book Is For Everyone

7:00am February 27, 2021

by Alethea Kontis

Wibke Brueggemann's charmingly snarky YA novel follows teenaged Phoebe as she recovers from the Worst New Year's Ever and learns that not all of life's answers can be found via Google.

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Movie Review: 'The Father'

4:53pm February 26, 2021

by Bob Mondello

An elderly pensioner, played by Anthony Hopkins, refuses all assistance, to the distress of his daughter, played by Olivia Colman, in the dementia drama The Father.

Hulu's New Billie Holliday Biopic Falls Short Of Capturing Her Real Story

2:43pm February 26, 2021

by Kevin Whitehead

Though Andra Day plays the jazz legend with conviction, The United States vs. Billie Holiday fictionalizes the particulars of Holiday's life, where the real story is dramatic enough.

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The Legacies Of Black Icons Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) And Malcolm X

1:29pm February 26, 2021

by Terry Gross

The film One Night in Miami imagines a night in 1964 where Cooke, Clay, Malcolm X and Jim Brown meet. We listen back to interviews with biographers Peter Guralnick, Jonathan Eig and Alex Haley.

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Uptop: Reading Is Fundamental

11:53am February 26, 2021

Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton discuss fighting and succumbing to the need for reading glasses. Not related, but has anyone seen my reading glasses? I swear I just had them.

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Power-Ups and Medical Medical Medical

11:53am February 26, 2021

Nico Santos and Zeke Smith reveal what actors in hospital dramas are really saying behind their masks, then play a game about superhero power-ups. Go go gadget, PUBLIC RADIO SHOW!

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This That Or The Other: Bath & Body Works, Meal Kit, Still Life Painting

11:53am February 26, 2021

Nico Santos and Zeke Smithhave a carefree time guessing whether different items are Bath & Body Works scents, meal kits, or still life paintings until they are suddenly interrupted by a smoke alarm.

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What's The Word?

11:53am February 26, 2021

Comics Samantha Ruddy and Luke Mones compete in this game about words that are spelled and pronounced the same, but have different meanings.

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Gettin' Greasy

11:53am February 26, 2021

Comics Samantha Ruddy and Luke Mones are hopelessly devoted to hearing Jonathan Coulton remix classic Grease songs to be about, you guessed it, Greece!

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