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Meet this all-female thrash metal band from Lebanon in a new documentary

2:20pm October 18, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Lilas Mayassi and Rita Baghdadi about the new documentary, "Sirens." Baghdadi profiles Mayassi's female thrash metal band, Slave to Sirens, known as Lebanon's first.

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'SNL' alums continue to poke fun at nonfiction films with 'Documentary Now!'

1:56pm October 18, 2022

by David Bianculli

Now in its fourth season, this anthology series claims the middle ground between a short SNL sketch and a full-length film. Its clever parodies include My Monkey Grifter, a riff on My Octopus Teacher.

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'New Yorker' culture critic says music and mixtapes helped make sense of himself

1:56pm October 18, 2022

by Terry Gross

The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Hua Hsu defined himself as a teen by the music he loved. The murder of a close friend when he was in college changed the course of his life. His memoir is Stay True.

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The cast of Showtime's Yellowjackets is mostly female.

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There are more women on TV but ageism persists, says new study

1:21pm October 18, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Streamers and broadcasters are putting slightly more women in front of and behind the camera according to Boxed In, an annual study. But ageism persists.

In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press by Katherine Corcoran

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'In the Mouth of the Wolf' examines the murder of a Mexican investigative reporter

8:00am October 18, 2022

by Marcela Davison Avilés

Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Among them is Regina Martinez, a veteran journalist reporting on government corruption and human rights abuses in Veracruz state.

"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" streams for free on Apple TV+ on Friday, October 28 to Monday, October 31.

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'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' won't be on TV this year. Here's how to watch

5:30am October 18, 2022

by Matt Adams

For only the second time since it was released 56 years ago, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown will not be airing on television. Here's how you can watch it.

Toast was a very small cat, Saha said, but the loudest one he has met.

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The story behind a new book's strange dedication to Toast the cat

5:00am October 18, 2022

by Halisia Hubbard

"For Toast, the cat, who was no help at all," reads the dedication page of researcher Jonathan Saha's book, Colonizing Animals. A picture of the page went viral on Twitter.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka holds his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

5:48pm October 17, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

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Baking 'Pan Solo' might take more than 100 hours, but the time spent is worth it

5:33pm October 17, 2022

by Tamara Keith

A mother-daughter baking duo is responsible for the 6-foot tall "Pan Solo" sculpture that sits outside of the family business, One House Bakery, in Benicia, Calif.

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Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Federal court for his civil lawsuit trial on Oct. 12 in New York. Spacey is facing a jury in a New York City courtroom during a civil trial accusing him of sexually abusing a 14-year-old actor in the 1980s when he was 26.

From the witness stand, Kevin Spacey denies sex abuse claims

5:20pm October 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Actor Anthony Rapp says he was a victim of assault and battery. Rapp says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.