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Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction with his essay collection 'The Message'

7:48am September 29, 2024

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new collection of three essays, "The Message." It is Coates' return to nonfiction after nearly a decade.

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Sydney Freeland on 'Rez Ball', the new underdog sports film on Netflix

7:48am September 29, 2024

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Sydney Freeland whose new Netflix movie, "Rez Ball," is about a Navajo boys' basketball team vying for a state championship.

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Should you vote your feelings? A traveling play helps audiences think that through

7:00am September 29, 2024

An acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show encourages the audience to think about why they're voting the way they do.

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'It was like a circus': What Terry Crews learned from his NFL career

5:00am September 29, 2024

Terry Crews went to college on an art scholarship, played football in the NFL and now stars in movies and hosts America's Got Talent. The key, he says, is to be really good at failure.

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'Wait Wait' for September 28, 2024: Live in Kansas City with Dionne Warwick!

12:30pm September 28, 2024

This week, Wait Wait is live in Kansas City with special guest Dionne Warwick, and panelists Josh Gondelman, Shantira Jackson, and Paula Poundstone

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Artists compete to have their paintings of ducks featured on a U.S. stamp

8:49am September 28, 2024

Every year, hundreds of artists across the country compete to have their painting of ducks or other waterfowl featured on a U.S. Stamp.

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In the film 'A Different Man', a New York actor takes a life-changing risk

8:03am September 28, 2024

by Scott Simon

"A Different Man" follows a New York actor with a facial deformity undergoing an experimental treatment. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with writer-director Aaron Schimberg and co-star Adam Pearson.

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Author Stephen Bruno's new memoir documents his time as a Manhattan doorman

8:03am September 28, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Stephen Bruno about his book, "Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman."

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‘SNL’ has always taken on politics. Here’s what works – and why

8:00am September 28, 2024

As a historic election looms, Saturday Night Live faces an ongoing challenge to make America laugh – and process an increasingly strange political world. Jean Smart hosts the show’s 50th season premiere on Saturday.

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‘The movie tells you how to make it’: After decades, Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ is here

7:00am September 28, 2024

“Every movie I make involves passion,” writer and director Francis Ford Coppola says. “The Godfather is very classical. Apocalypse Now is very wild.” His latest, Megalopolis, is a Roman epic – set in New Rome, a futuristic New York City.

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