24 nifty tips to make 2024 even brighter
Surprising and creative ways to help boost your health and happiness in the new year.
Arts
Remembrance done right: How TCM has perfected the 'in memoriam' montage
TCM Remembers is an annual tribute to the film industry's dearly departed. Somehow, these videos manage to strike just the right balance between sentimentality, fond remembrance and aesthetics.
Here's what shook the video game world in 2023 — and how 2024 is looking
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Shannon Liao, deputy Gaming Editor of Inverse, about massive mergers, layoffs and emerging technology that shook the video game industry in 2023.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening
Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Fad Camp podcast, the novel Silver Nitrate, and America Ferrera's much-discussed monologue in Barbie.
Head of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County steps down
After three years leading the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, President and CEO Chase Law is stepping down. She arrived during the challenging years of the pandemic when venues were shuttered throughout the region.
Remembering Tom Smothers, TV pioneer and satirist
Tom Smothers, who died Dec. 26, was one half of the comedy duo The Smothers Brothers. We listen back to an interview with Tom and Dick Smothers from 1985, and an interview with just Tom in 1997.
David Soul, of TV's 'Starsky and Hutch,' dies at 80
Soul was a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo "Starsky & Hutch" and topped the music charts with the ballad "Don't Give Up on Us."
New year, new quiz. Can you believe stuff has already happened in 2024?!
Who's out to save democracy? Who's good at not drooling? And what do sexy Hershey Kisses have to do with any of it? Try for your first 11/11 of 2024, and possibly find out.
How to declutter your space — and keep it that way
Maybe you have a new year's resolution to be tidier and keep a neater home. Star Hansen, a professional organizer known as the "Clutter Whisperer," bring you some tips on how to declutter your space.
Tap dancing star and choreographer Maurice Hines dies at 80
Maurice Hines, dancer and choreographer — and evangelist for the art of tap dancing — died Friday at age 80. Hines and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye.