Arts & Life

Tony Hale plays Gary Walsh, the personal assistant to Selina Meyer, on the HBO series, Veep.

Arts

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Veep' Actor Tony Hale; Sobriety And Sex; 'What A Fish Knows'

1:23pm June 25, 2016

Hale talks about playing "anxious characters" on Arrested Development and Veep. Sarah Hepola had to rethink her sex life after she quit drinking. Jonathan Balcombe discusses the inner lives of fish.

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Science
Arts

With A Zap, Scientists Create Low-Fat Chocolate

12:29pm June 25, 2016

by Mark H. Kim

Scientists say they've figured out how to reduce the fat in milk chocolate by running it through an electric field. The result is healthier, but is it tastier?

Arts

A Grisly, Humorous Dissection Of Morality In 'Anatomy Theatre'

8:48am June 25, 2016

by Gideon Brower

It was once thought that evil resided inside the body. So murderers were dissected to find it. That macabre practice is the subject of a dark but funny new opera, "Anatomy Theatre."

Book Review: 'Ninefox Gambit,' By Yoon Ha Lee

Books
Arts

Beautifully Alien 'Ninefox Gambit' Mixes Math And Magic

7:00am June 25, 2016

by Jason Sheehan

Yoon Ha Lee's new novel is hard to sum up — in an alien world so dissimilar to ours its technology seems like magic, reality is a consensus that requires intense, rigid belief to function.

Arts

'Swiss Army Man' Leaps From Realism To Fantasy

6:32pm June 24, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Swiss Army Man is an absurdist movie comedy in which a shipwrecked Paul Dano befriends a surprisingly talkative corpse, played by Daniel Radcliffe.

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Michael Herr, Whose Vietnam War Reporting Became Iconic, Dies At 76

4:53pm June 24, 2016

by Rose Friedman

Herr's book Dispatches redefined the genre of war reporting. "I was there to watch," he wrote. "I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it."

Arts

Sightseething

4:36pm June 24, 2016

Identify famous destinations based on some one-star Internet reviews.

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Arts

This, That, Or The Other?

4:36pm June 24, 2016

Strut your stuff! For this Los Angeles themed edition of This, That, or The Other, contestants must guess which of three categories things belong to: Yoga Poses, Hair Styles, or Dance Moves.

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Arts

Starmen

4:36pm June 24, 2016

"Weird Al" teams up with house musician Jonathan Coulton to sing our version of David Bowie's "Starman" about popular movies in which aliens land on Earth.

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OMG VIP

4:36pm June 24, 2016

We've mashed up the names of famous people with common text messaging abbreviations.

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