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Are we still talking about Barbie? Yes, we are.

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening

5:00pm January 05, 2024

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Fad Camp podcast, the novel Silver Nitrate, and America Ferrera's much-discussed monologue in Barbie.

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Head of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County steps down

4:35pm January 05, 2024

by David Ford

After three years leading the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, President and CEO Chase Law is stepping down. She arrived during the challenging years of the pandemic when venues were shuttered throughout the region.

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Remembering Tom Smothers, TV pioneer and satirist

2:55pm January 05, 2024

Tom Smothers, who died Dec. 26, was one half of the comedy duo The Smothers Brothers. We listen back to an interview with Tom and Dick Smothers from 1985, and an interview with just Tom in 1997.

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David Soul is photographed at an event in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1983. Soul, who hit fame as blond half of crime-fighting duo "Starsky and Hutch" in a popular 1970s television series, has died at age 80.

David Soul, of TV's 'Starsky and Hutch,' dies at 80

12:13pm January 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

Soul was a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo "Starsky & Hutch" and topped the music charts with the ballad "Don't Give Up on Us."

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New year, new quiz. Can you believe stuff has already happened in 2024?!

6:39am January 05, 2024

by Holly J. Morris

Who's out to save democracy? Who's good at not drooling? And what do sexy Hershey Kisses have to do with any of it? Try for your first 11/11 of 2024, and possibly find out.

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How to declutter your space — and keep it that way

6:03pm January 04, 2024

Maybe you have a new year's resolution to be tidier and keep a neater home. Star Hansen, a professional organizer known as the "Clutter Whisperer," bring you some tips on how to declutter your space.

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Tap dancing star and choreographer Maurice Hines dies at 80

4:13pm January 04, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Maurice Hines, dancer and choreographer — and evangelist for the art of tap dancing — died Friday at age 80. Hines and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye.

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'The Brothers Sun' is a freewheeling, messy and quite entertaining comedy-thriller

1:37pm January 04, 2024

by John Powers

The jokes and bodies pile up in this eight-part Netflix series about a Taiwanese assassin who travels to L.A. to protect his goofy younger brother and his formidable mother, played by Michelle Yeoh.

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Finding a tasteful design for Arkansas' 'monument to the unborn' has been fraught

6:09pm January 03, 2024

by Josie Lenora

A law passed in Arkansas last year calls for the creation of a donation-funded memorial on state capitol grounds, to commemorate fetuses aborted when Roe v. Wade was legal.

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Fireworks explode next to the Arc de Triomphe with "2024" projected at the Avenue des Champs-Elysees during New Year celebrations in Paris, early on January 1, 2024.

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Have you already broken your New Year's resolution?

4:23pm January 03, 2024

The New Year often makes people want to be a better version of themselves.