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Bob Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell in Nobody, directed by Ilya Naishuller.

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What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

12:18pm July 09, 2021

A top-secret cache of sperm is stored under the Space Needle in Hot White Heist. Bob Odenkirk stars as a suburban dad with a secret identity in Nobody. And it's Criterion Collection's neonoir month.

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Elemental Nightlife

11:16am July 09, 2021

Quinta Brunson (A Black Lady Sketch Show) and Taylor Garron (Look I Bought Plants: And Other Poems About Life and Stuff) navigate some new clubs themed after elements on the periodic table.

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Uzo Aduba: In Treatment

11:16am July 09, 2021

In Treatment and Orange Is the New Black actor Uzo Aduba talks about seeing therapy from the other side after playing a therapist. Then, she tees off for a round of Trivia Golf with Jonathan Coulton.

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Check-In: Ask Me Another Ends In September

11:06am July 09, 2021

Host Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton announce some sad news: NPR is ending production of Ask Me Another. There are still new shows to come through September, so stay tuned.

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Category Is!

11:06am July 09, 2021

Good on Paper comedians Iliza Shlesinger and Margaret Cho are tested on all of their interests all at once! Can they tell their candy from their country music? Their cats from their pop culture?

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Other 70s

11:06am July 09, 2021

In this music parody game, Good on Paper comedians Iliza Shlesinger and Margaret Cho take on popular songs from the 1970s rewritten to be about things from the 70s of ANY century.

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The Sounds of TikTok

11:06am July 09, 2021

Actor/writer Quinta Brunson (A Black Lady Sketch Show) and writer/director Taylor Garron (As of Yet) identify the TV clips that have been haunting everyone's For You Pages. Woah oh ohhh yeah-eh-ayy!

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A model walks the runway during the Zuhair Murad Couture Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2021/2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 7, 2021.

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Paris Fashion Week Returns, Making The Case For In-Person Haute Couture

8:39am July 09, 2021

by Allyson Portee

Paris Fashion Week returned with 33 in-person shows and 24 digital presentations. As audiences gathered along runways in the French capital, the haute couture industry faces an fragile future.

Zaila Avant-Garde Makes History With Scripps Spelling Bee Win

5:00am July 09, 2021

14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde breezed to the championship on Thursday night. The only previous Black winner was Jody-Anne Maxwell of Jamaica, the only champ from outside the United States.

The 2019 Scripps Spelling Bee co-champions hold up their trophy at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. After pausing in 2020, the competition is back on this year. The finals are Thursday night in Orlando, Fla.

After Being Sidelined By The Pandemic, The Spelling Bee Makes Its Great R-E-T-U-R-N

4:20pm July 08, 2021

by Alana Wise

The academic games were canceled last year, but the mental sport is back. First lady Jill Biden is attending the finals Thursday night in Orlando, Fla.