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Brian Cox speaks onstage at the 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards on Jan. 12, 2020, in Santa Monica, Calif.

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'Wait Wait' for Jan. 22, 2022: With Not My Job guest Brian Cox

9:11am January 22, 2022

Brian Cox is one of the world's most celebrated actors, and is currently perfecting the art of swearing as Logan Roy on HBO's Succession. Naturally, we asked three questions about vacuums cleaners.

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22 tips for 2022: Start, and stick with, a new habit

6:00am January 22, 2022

by Elise Hu

If you're trying to start a habit that you'll actually stick with, try doing something that brings you joy.

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Sarita Choudhury and Sarah Jessica Parker as Seema and Carrie on And Just Like That...

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'And Just Like That... ' has a Diversity Girlfriend problem

5:00am January 22, 2022

by Aisha Harris

The revival seems more concerned with apologizing for Sex and the City's transgressions than engaging with the present in any meaningful way.

From hairdresser to L.A. lounge icon, Marty Roberts is remembered as a musical idol

5:00am January 22, 2022

After performing six nights a week for four decades, LA musician Marty Roberts has died. He was half of the husband-and-wife duo Marty and Elayne.

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Louie Anderson at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. He was known for his starring role in the FX dark comedy Baskets.

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Emmy-winning comedian Louie Anderson has died at 68

6:08pm January 21, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

The Emmy-award winning actor, stand-up comic, and TV host died Friday in Las Vegas, after complications from cancer, according to his publicist.

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Raquel Daniels and Kamari Bonds in Twentysomethings: Austin on Netflix.

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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing

5:01pm January 21, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Netflix show Twentysomethings: Austin, a look back at 20 years of The Onion and more.

A woman drinks an alcohol-free beer during the annual "Fete de la Musique" (music day), in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018.

Non-alcoholic beers are finally good (and they're not just for Dry January)

2:06pm January 21, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Craft beer's emphasis on strong flavors has reinvented non-alcoholic beer, bringing better choices than ever to people who want new options.

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Remembering André Leon Talley, a titan of the fashion world

1:32pm January 21, 2022

by Terry Gross

The former creative director at Vogue magazine and larger-than-life fashion influencer died Jan. 18. Talley spoke to Fresh Air in 2018 about growing up in Durham, N.C., and discovering fashion.

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The collision of old and new money is on glitzy display in HBO's 'Gilded Age'

1:32pm January 21, 2022

by David Bianculli

Set in New York City the early 1880s, this ten-part costume drama is basically an American Downtown Abbey, complete with rich and poor, power brokers and household workers.

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Singer Meat Loaf performs in support of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012.

Meat Loaf, Grammy-winning singer famous for 'I'd Do Anything For Love,' dies at 74

12:39pm January 21, 2022

by Harrison Jacobs

Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, was best known for Bat Out Of Hell, one of the best selling albums of all time.