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The internet's new favorite video game is about playing the trombone

11:12am September 25, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

A new video game allows users to play a virtual trombone to the music of some familiar favorites. Players get feedback ranging from "nasty" to "perfecto" - making Trombone Champ a tootin' good time.

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How far-right groups use memes to radicalize people

9:12am September 25, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Harvard disinformation expert Joan Donovan about memes and how they've come to play, at times, a dangerous role in today's divisive political climate.

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Alt.Latino is taking over the mic at Tiny Desk concerts for Latinx Heritage Month

8:05am September 25, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Alt.Latino has big plans for Latinx Heritage Month, including taking over the mic at NPR's Tiny Desk concerts.

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Tamara Lawrence on playing Jennifer Gibbons in the real-life story 'The Silent Twins'

7:59am September 25, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with British actor Tamara Lawrance, co-star of "The Silent Twins" - a movie about two girls who grew up speaking only to each other.

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Megan Piphus Peace is making history as Sesame Street's first Black female pupeteer

7:57am September 25, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Sesame Street's Megan Piphus Peace, who recently joined the show as its first Black female puppeteer.

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Angelina Ballerina, written by Katharine Holabird and illustrated by Helen Craig

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40 years after she took the stage, 'Angelina Ballerina' is still dancing

7:55am September 25, 2022

by Samantha Balaban

Angelina is a determined little mouse in a pink tutu who dreams of becoming a ballerina. Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig revisit their beloved character, the star of more than 25 picture books.

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Richard Armstrong is retiring as director of the Guggenheim Foundation after 15 years

9:21am September 24, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Richard Armstrong, who is retiring next year after almost 15 years in the role.

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'Wait Wait' for Sept. 24, 2022: With Not My Job guest Michael Strahan

9:13am September 24, 2022

Michael Strahan is a hall of fame NFL player, who then moved on to a successful career in broadcasting. Strahan can do it all, but can he answer our three questions about wild pigs, or Stray Hams?

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Louise Fletcher, a cast member in "Shameless," poses at the premiere of the second season of the Showtime television series in Los Angeles, on Jan. 5, 2012.

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Oscar-winning 'Cuckoo's Nest' actor Louise Fletcher has died

8:25am September 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" set a new standard for screen villains, has died at 88.

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'Love and Stuff' is a moving memoir about motherhood

8:16am September 24, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with filmmaker Judith Helfand about "Love and Stuff," her documentary memoir about taking care of her dying mother while becoming a mother herself.

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