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Laura Kipnis Tackles Campus Sexual Politics In 'Unwanted Advances'

7:55am April 09, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern, argues that Title IX investigations of sexual misconduct on campus are vastly overexpanded, to the point of chilling intellectual freedom and academic debate.

In Bioshock Infinite, a simple premise — a guy, a girl, a gun — animates a mind-bending story.

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Reading The Game: Bioshock Infinite

7:00am April 09, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

It's a simple premise — a guy, a girl, a gun and a debt to repay — but in Bioshock Infinite it becomes a mind-bending story about politics, oppression, change and sacrifice. Set in a flying city.

Listeners Create #NPRpoetry Using Prominent Political Themes

7:18pm April 08, 2017

As National Poetry Month continues, we share two listeners' poems about education funding in Oklahoma and another about the importance of activism.

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Is Deviation Over Procreation Worth A Marriage's Termination?

12:00pm April 08, 2017

Dear Sugar Radio is a podcast offering "radical empathy" and advice for the lost, lonely and heartsick. Today the hosts hear from married women who disagree with their husbands about having children.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper delivers remarks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016.

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Not My Job: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets Quizzed On 2020

11:48am April 08, 2017

Hickenlooper came to Colorado to work for an energy company but opened a brewpub instead. The beer must have been pretty good, because he was elected mayor of Denver and later governor of the state.

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Family, Death And A Road Trip In 'Ashes To Asheville'

10:42am April 08, 2017

by Scott Simon

Scott Simon talks with author Sarah Dooley about her book Ashes to Asheville. It's about sisters trying to fulfill their mother's dying wish to spread her ashes in the last place the family was happy.

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Sweet n' Nasty molds hundreds of adult chocolates in house, including these handcuffs and keys — which are used to top bachelorettes' cakes or sold on their own with the phrase, "Eat your way out!"

Kinky Cakes: Inside The World Of Adult Bakeries

10:00am April 08, 2017

by Becky Little

Bachelorette parties aren't the only source of business for bakers who specialize in racy confections. Think divorces, vasectomies, breast implants, military deployments and even funerals.

Their Finest stars Gemma Arterton as a brilliant young scriptwriter, and Billy Nighy as an aging actor who still wants to be cast as the romantic lead.

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The British At 'Their Finest': How A Nation Kept Calm And Carried On

8:06am April 08, 2017

by Scott Simon

Their Finest is a film within a film about making wartime movies in Britain. Bill Nighy stars as an aging matinee idol. Gemma Arterton plays a young copywriter — the script department's secret weapon.

Detail of cover of America #2, by Gabby Rivera and Joe Quinones, starring America Chavez, Marvel's lesbian Latina superhero.

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Beyond The Pale (Male): Marvel, Diversity And A Changing Comics Readership

8:06am April 08, 2017

by Glen Weldon

Comments about diversity in superhero comics made last week by a Marvel executive unleashed an online firestorm. But heroes who look more like the growing comics readership are here to stay.

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Carl And Rob Reiner Leave Hand And Footprints In Concrete

8:06am April 08, 2017

by Mandalit del Barco

Father and son comedy legends Carl and Rob Reiner have their hand and footprints immortalized in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre.