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Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in the action comedy The Nice Guys.

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

5:01pm May 03, 2024

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Nice Guys, Vanessa Williams' song "Legs," Arooj Aftab's album Night Reign, and the game Planet Zoo.

Here are the events planned for the 150th Kentucky Derby

4:18pm May 03, 2024

by Sylvia Goodman

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Kentucky Derby. Safety concerns are taking center stage after a dozen horses died in last year's spring meet.

The last photo Trisha Fountain took with her mother in May, 2006. Fountain's mom died the week after her graduation. She said the poem "Epitaph" has helped offered her comfort.

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Bearing witness, celebrating strength: How poetry has changed lives for NPR's audience

3:02pm May 03, 2024

by Suzanne Nuyen

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

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Remembering novelist, screenwriter and memoirist Paul Auster

1:37pm May 03, 2024

by Terry Gross

Auster, who died April 30, rose to fame in the 1980s with The New York Trilogy novels. His memoir, Winter Journal, focused on the history of his body. Originally broadcast in 1997, 2004 and 2012.

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Ryan Gosling is Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy.

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Ryan Gosling is 'The Fall Guy' in this cheerfully nonsensical stuntman thriller

1:32pm May 03, 2024

by Justin Chang

Though it might have benefited from tighter editing, there's no denying the pleasure of this gloriously overwrought film.

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A number of Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced the CROWN Act, legislation that would ban discrimination based on one's hairstyle or hair texture. Here, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs Crown Act legislation on June 15, 2023 in Lansing, Mich. that will outlaw race-based hairstyle discrimination in workplaces and schools.

Black lawmakers reintroduce federal CROWN Act legislation to ban hair discrimination

7:48am May 03, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

The bill which was previously passed in the House in 2019 and 2022 but blocked in the Senate, aims to end race-based hair discrimination in schools and workplaces.

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Gather your loot, Dungeons & Dragons is on a quest to make it to the big stage

6:01am May 03, 2024

The tabletop role-playing game, which has its 50th anniversary this year, debuts as a theatrical show in New York this weekend. Audiences get to decide what happens in the story by voting on an app.

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From left: Drake, SpongeBob, Kristi Noem

Which celebrity feud escalated this week? Find out in the news quiz

5:00am May 03, 2024

by Holly J. Morris

Where's the beef? What's the deal with marijuana? Why does this read like a '90s stand-up script? The answer to at least some of these questions can be found in the quiz. Were you paying attention?

Composers reimagined some of the most iconic 'Final Fantasy' songs in 'Rebirth'

5:32pm May 02, 2024

by Vincent Acovino

A big part of what makes the Final Fantasy franchise so beloved is its score. Rebirth's composers aimed to make music that pleases fans of the original while trying something new and surprising.

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Peloton hit the skids after its pandemic boom, struggling to figure out how to grow beyond sales of luxury fitness equipment.

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Peloton is laying off workers and replacing the CEO — again

12:33pm May 02, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

It's déjà vu for the luxury fitness company: Peloton is cutting about 400 more jobs, and its CEO is stepping down just two years after a major shakeup.