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Working With A Mobile DJ Leads To A Career In Sound Design: Jason Romney

10:14am July 14, 2017

by Calvin Sherman

Radio Camper Calvin Sherman speaks to Jason Romney, Associate Dean of Design and Production at UNC School of the Arts, about sound design, what it is, and what led him to this career.

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A Favorite In Waiting: Alison Bechdel's 'Dykes To Watch Out For'

9:23am July 14, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

Alison Bechdel is one of the few cartoonists who appears twice on our list of 100 favorite comics and graphic novels — but many readers overlooked her beloved cult strip Dykes To Watch Out For.

In Friends From College, Keegan-Michael Key plays an author who has moved to New York with his wife, where they're both reunited with old college friends.

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'You're Never Too Old To Screw Up': Keegan-Michael Key On 'Friends From College'

10:58pm July 13, 2017

Key's new Netflix show is about how even in your 40s, you can still make mistakes. The actor tells NPR he never expected to make it in the entertainment industry: "I stumbled up into this," he says.

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Surprised by her new group home's unusual rules, Ellen (Lily Collins) has to discover how to confront her addiction and arrive at self-acceptance.

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In This Smart Drama About Eating Disorders, Dark Humor Cuts 'To The Bone'

6:13pm July 13, 2017

by Scott Tobias

In writer-director Marti Noxon's drama, a young woman (Lily Collins) battles anorexia at an in-patient facility. The film, rounded out by a great cast, offers a knowing, intimate take on the disease.

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'Saturday Night Live' And 'Westworld' Scoop Up Most Emmy Nominations

5:27pm July 13, 2017

by Eric Deggans

NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans gives us his take on the 2017 Emmy nominations. With 22 nominations each, Saturday Night Live and Westworld are tied for the most Emmy nods of the season.

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'Stains On The Sidewalk': Photographer Remembers Year Of Murders In Baltimore

5:25pm July 13, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

For her project, "Stains on the Sidewalk," photographer Amy Berbert is memorializing each murder in Baltimore last year with a photograph taken on the "same day, same time, same place."

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Ho Po, a Chinese labor contractor from San Francisco, sent 150 of his countrymen to build Buena Vista.

Chinese Laborers Built Sonoma's Wineries. Racist Neighbors Drove Them Out

5:25pm July 13, 2017

by Grace Hwang Lynch

Enjoying a chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon? In the 1800s, Chinese immigrants helped introduce those iconic varietals to California's wine country. But as vineyards grew, so did anti-Chinese fervor.

Katherine (Florence Pugh) is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age.

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'Lady Macbeth': A New Bride Flouts The Rigid Rules Of Society — And Humanity

5:14pm July 13, 2017

by Ella Taylor

In this unsentimental, unflinching, increasingly harrowing film, a young woman in Victorian England internalizes the various cruelties visited upon her ... until she doesn't.

Caesar (Andy Serkis, center) and his fellow apes prepare to cross a moral Rubicon in War for the Planet of the Apes.

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'War For The Planet Of The Apes' Employs Small-Scale Gorilla Tactics

5:00pm July 13, 2017

by Chris Klimek

The latter-day Apes prequel trilogy concludes quietly, without cinematic chest-thumping. Critic Chris Klimek says the result is "suspenseful, mournful, grand and sensitively performed."

Chasing Coral follows a team of researchers and filmmakers as they document coral bleaching events.

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'Chasing Coral': Documentary Vividly Chronicles A Growing Threat To Oceans

5:00pm July 13, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

Director Jeff Orlowski uses time-lapse underwater cameras to demonstrate the alarming extent of a worldwide coral bleaching epidemic now endangering marine ecosystems.