Arts

Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF created an ATM that displays and ranks the cash balance of users.

This ATM at Art Basel has a twist: It posts a picture of you with your bank balance

12:08pm December 03, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The ATM created by art collective MSCHF puts the cash balance of those who use it on display at the Art Basel in Miami Beach and ranks people by wealth.

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'Wait Wait' for Dec. 3, 2022: With Not My Job guest Dana Carvey

9:50am December 03, 2022

Dana Carvey is a comedy legend, who after starring in SNL and some of the biggest comedies of all time, created his own podcast The Weird Place. We ask him 3 questions about carvers, or steakhouses.

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Director Julia Reichert pictured at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2019 in Massachusetts.

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Documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert dies at 76

7:49am December 03, 2022

by Samantha Sommer

The Academy Award-winner and activist was known as the "godmother of American independent documentaries." She saw herself as a feminist and the curator of Midwestern stories.

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'Mr. Christmas' of Richmond, Virginia is ready to retire his holiday lights

7:49am December 03, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

Mr. Christmas, Frank Hudak of Richmond, VA is ready to retire his home's dazzling light display after decades of holiday cheer. He talks with NPR's Sarah McCammon about it.

Book covers with people on them on a purple background.

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14 celebrity memoirs spilling all the tea

6:01am December 03, 2022

by Pilar Galvan

It's been a busy season for celebrity memoirs. A-listers from the worlds of Hollywood, music, journalism and royalty dish their own stories in these recent and upcoming books.

South Korean women take part in a march supporting feminism during a protest to mark International Women's Day in Seoul on March 8, 2019. Anti-feminism has been on the rise, turbocharged this year by President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that's swept South Korea

5:00am December 03, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

Many men in South Korea claim to be victims of gender discrimination, a movement turbocharged by President Yoon. Meanwhile, women lag far behind men in pay and face unrealistic beauty standards.

A rare recording of Phinney's Rainbow — thought to be the first produced musical of Stephen Sondheim (shown here as a wizened showbiz veteran of 32, with three Broadway musicals under his belt) — has been found on a bookshelf in Milwaukee.

A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces

6:02pm December 02, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

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Steve Lacy performs at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Maryland on Oct. 15, 2022.

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening, viewing and reading

5:00pm December 02, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Midwest Modern Twitter account, Unclear and Present Danger podcast, Gemini Rights and more.

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Encore: At The Museum of Broadway, people learn what it takes to make a show

4:22pm December 02, 2022

by Jeff Lunden

The Museum of Broadway in New York has lots of history and is also an interactive attraction where you can step inside a set or learn what it takes to make a show.

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Trevor Noah steps away from 'The Daily Show', embarks on new standup tour

1:22pm December 02, 2022

by Terry Gross

Trevor Noah is stepping down as host of The Daily Show after seven years. We'll listen back to portions of two 2016 interviews with Noah, whose newest standup comedy special just premiered on Netflix.

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