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'Ghosting The News' Author Says Local Journalism 'Freefall' Is Accelerating

2:04pm August 03, 2020

by Dave Davies

More than 2,000 newspapers have shut down in recent years, and some regions have become news deserts. Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan says the collapse of local news undermines democracy.

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Fear Of Death Is Contagious In The Psychological Thriller 'She Dies Tomorrow'

2:04pm August 03, 2020

by Justin Chang

This mordantly funny horror film opens on a young woman who awakens with a terrifying premonition of doom. She Dies Tomorrow feels surprisingly in tune with our present moment of unease.

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Author Michelle McNamara, in the HBO documentary series based on her book.

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'I'll Be Gone In The Dark' Sheds Light On Both Justice And Its Pursuers

10:11am August 03, 2020

by Linda Holmes

By the end of the HBO docuseries, you may not know much more about the case writer Michelle McNamara pursued until her death. But you will know more about the price of that pursuit.

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, by Laura Van Den Berg

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This 'Wolf' Will Bite You — And You'll Like It

7:00am August 03, 2020

by Gabino Iglesias

Laura Van Den Berg's new collection is full of uncanny, exquisite, and painful stories about death, about loss and isolation and falling for the wrong person. Her writing will get under your skin.

A quarantine seance performed over Zoom goes awry in the new horror movie 'Host,' streaming now on Shudder.

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New 'Quar-Horror' Films Show Staying At Home Is Scary Too

6:13am August 03, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

This year feels like a horror movie, and a select group of filmmakers have taken the pandemic as inspiration. "Quar-horror" ranges from homemade shorts on YouTube to a movie filmed entirely on Zoom.

Actor Wilford Brimley attends the premiere of Did You Hear About the Morgans? in New York City on December 14, 2009 Brimley passed away on August 1, 2020 at 85.

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'Cocoon' Actor Wilford Brimley Dies At 85

1:05pm August 02, 2020

by Suzanne Nuyen

The actor, who became an Internet sensation for his pronunciation of "diabetes" in a Liberty Medical ad, died Saturday morning at a Utah hospital.

View of the waterfront from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada on January 20, 2020. The number of American pleasure craft arriving from Washington state has alarmed Canadians living just across the border.

Americans, Go Home: Canadians Track U.S. Boaters Sneaking Across The Border

11:52am August 02, 2020

by Martha Ann Overland

U.S. pleasure boats have been sneaking into Canada despite a border shutdown. A group of Canadian retirees is on the lookout for violators from the "petri dish" that is America.

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Kermit And The Gang Return In New Disney+ Show, 'Muppets Now'

8:03am August 02, 2020

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Kermit the Frog (YES! Kermit!) about his new Disney Plus show, Muppets Now.

A demonstrator holds a sign reading "Black Pete Is Racism" during a 2013 demonstration in Amsterdam. Zwarte Piet or Black Pete is traditionally depicted by white people wearing blackface, Afro wigs and red lipstick.

George Floyd's Death And Years Of Dialogue Are Helping The Dutch Disown Black Pete

8:02am August 02, 2020

by Gregory Warner

"There's quite a risk that we could have said, 'Oh, that's in the United States. That's not us,' " says Amma Asante, a former member of the Dutch Parliament. "And now there's no denial anymore."

The memorial will lead people from nearby history museums to the bank of the Ohio River. There, they can sit on limestone benches looking out across the water from Kentucky to southern Indiana.

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'Somebody Knew Them': New Monument Will Honor '(Un)Known' Enslaved People

5:09pm August 01, 2020

by Stephanie Wolf

As monuments come down around the U.S., a group in Louisville, Ky., is putting one up. An artist-run nonprofit is planning a memorial dedicated to Black people whose names have been lost to history.

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