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Remembering NPR international correspondent Anne Garrels

1:22pm September 09, 2022

by Terry Gross

Garrels, who died Sept. 7, reported on conflicts from the U.S.S.R., China, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Her most heralded dispatches were from the 2003 Iraq war. Originally broadcast in 2003.

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'If I Survive You' is a sweeping portrait of a family's fight to make it in America

1:22pm September 09, 2022

by Maureen Corrigan

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You is an intensively granular, yet panoramic depiction of what it's like to try to make it — or not — in this kaleidoscopic madhouse of a country.

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Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall play a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife trying to redeem their legacy in the wake of a public scandal in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

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'Honk for Jesus' is an uneven but entertaining saga about scandal and redemption

1:22pm September 09, 2022

by Justin Chang

Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall play a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife trying to redeem their legacy in the wake of a public scandal in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

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Gabby Rivera speaks at Design Salon: Radical Craft at the TED World Theater, November 8, 2018, New York, NY. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED

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Gabby Rivera: Writing the story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero

9:44am September 09, 2022

In Marvel's "America," Gabby Rivera wrote a superhero who's queer, Latina, and punches portals across dimensions. She shares why it's empowering to write characters that mirror her identity.

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The YouTube algorithm has been criticized for pushing content that radicalizes users rather than keeping them informed.

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How the polarizing effect of social media is speeding up

5:01am September 09, 2022

In his new book, journalist Max Fisher unpacks how social media companies have engineered our feeds to keep us angry, and keep us online.

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How YouTube became one of the planet's most influential media businesses

1:32pm September 08, 2022

by Dave Davies

Like, Comment, Subscribe author Mark Bergen says YouTube has ushered in a world of abundant content and creativity, of influencers and hustlers, of information overload and endless culture wars.

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Gretchen Mol and Jon Bernthal as Julian Kaye star in Showtime's American Gigolo.

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Showtime's 'American Gigolo' sequel lacks the highfalutin glitz of the original

1:32pm September 08, 2022

by John Powers

There's nothing mythic about this series, which acts as a sequel to Paul Schrader's hit 1980 movie. This American Gigolo relies too much on people caring about a film that was made four decades ago.

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Bernard Shaw, longtime CNN anchor, has died at 82

11:06am September 08, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

During the era that many viewers learned to watch CNN during breaking news, Shaw was its first chief anchor, reporting on stories from the shooting of President Reagan to the bombing of Baghdad.

My Body No Choice will play, appropriately, in an auditorium Arena Stage refers to as "The Cradle."

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'My Body No Choice' — Arena Stage advocates for reproductive rights

9:21am September 08, 2022

by Bob Mondello

On the eve of the 2022 election, Arena Stage presents monologues on the theme of choice by eight female playwrights. The show runs for 18 performances and tickets are $18, a nod to the US voting age.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Community Band is gearing up for its first concert in more than two years.

Community bands are back after being battered by the pandemic

5:11am September 08, 2022

by Jon Kalish

There are more than a thousand community bands in big cities and small towns throughout the country.