Arts

What separates the ultrarich from the just-plain-rich? The gigayacht.

6:00am June 22, 2025

A new collection of essays by New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts, provides rich research and material for the conversation about extreme wealth in America today.

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Designer Claire McCardell revolutionized women's fashion. Why isn't she better known?

5:36pm June 21, 2025

by Andrew Limbong

NPR's Andrew Limbong interviews writer Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson about her new book, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free."

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Star bassist Carol Kaye rejects Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honor

4:19pm June 21, 2025

One of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, Kaye was listed alongside the late record producer Thom Bell and the late pianist Nicky Hopkins as inductees in the Musical Excellence category.

'Wait Wait' for June 21, 2025: With Not My Job guest Ibtihaj Muhammad

12:30pm June 21, 2025

  This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Ibtihaj Muhammad and panelists Jeff Hiller, Rachel Coster, and Hari Kondabolu

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I can't stop thinking about this plotline in 'Materialists'

7:00am June 21, 2025

A money-obsessed NYC matchmaker is wooed by a financial investor and a cater waiter in a romantic drama that has its protagonist finding strength and emotional growth via a side character's suffering.

Arts

This physician left her job to make 'teaching kitchens' for those in need

5:22pm June 20, 2025

by John Ketchum

After working as an emergency medicine physician in Kansas City for years, Kathryn Miner started exploring other ways to help people in her community and pursued lifestyle and culinary medicine.

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'28 Years Later': A horror thriller worth the wait

5:07pm June 20, 2025

by Bob Mondello

The rage virus that escaped from a bio-weapons lab in 28 Days Later has been contained -- to all of England -- in this third installment of the auteur-horror franchise.

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Remembering Edmund White, a writer who chronicled gay life and culture

10:58am June 20, 2025

by Terry Gross

Growing up, White tried to "cure" his own homosexuality; he later drew upon that time for his 1982 bestseller, A Boy's Own Story. White died June 3. Originally broadcast in 1985, 1994, 1997 and 2006.

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Mary Halvorson's 'About Ghosts' captures the defining trends of jazz in the 2020s

10:57am June 20, 2025

by Martin Johnson

Guitarist and composer Halvorson arrived on the jazz scene in the mid 2000s with a virtuosity that commanded attention. Her current sextet, called Amaryllis, features a stellar cast of musicians.

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Immerse yourself in the music of Rome with this World Cafe mixtape

8:52am June 20, 2025

From Ennio Morricone to Italian psychedelic rock, this World Cafe playlist features music from the show's latest Sense of Place series.