Pop Culture Happy Hour, Small Batch Edition: 'Terminator Genisys'
Contributors Glen Weldon and Chris Klimek break down the latest in the many-tentacled franchise that continues to employ its indispensable central action hero.
Arts & Life
USA's 'Mr. Robot,' HBO's 'Ballers' Among Picks For Best Summer TV Series
A flood of some 120 series, both new and returning, are coming to TV sets this summer. So, how to choose which ones to binge-watch by the pool? Our TV critic picks his four favorite new shows.
'Aurora' Journeys In A New Direction
Veteran sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a tale of that classic genre trope, the generation ship. Critic Alan Cheuse says this story of spacefaring colonists goes to unexpected places.
'Unnoticeables' Is A Raunchy Ride Through Punk, Horror And Pop Culture
Robert Brockway's day job is helping to run Cracked.com, and he brings that site's irreverent wit to this lightweight but satisfying tale of a waitress and a punk rocker battling eldritch horrors.
The New Science Behind Our 'Unfair' Criminal Justice System
"Good people with the best of intentions ... can get things terribly, terribly wrong," says legal scholar Adam Benforado. His book, Unfair, explores the intrinsic flaws of the American justice system.
Cosby Admitted Giving Woman Quaaludes
The comedian testified in 2005 he got the sedative with the intent of giving it to women with whom he wanted to have sex.
Bill Cosby Admitted To Acquiring Drugs To Give To A Woman For Sex
NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews MaryClaire Dale, an Associated Press reporter, about the court documents showing Cosby said in 2005 he got quaaludes to give to a woman with whom he wanted to have sex.
The Mornin' Ain't So Beautiful For This Dark 'Oklahoma!' Production
In upstate New York, an experimental staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic sets a key scene in total darkness and adds coldblooded murder to the plot.
Dead-Cinch Thrillers: 4 Books To Get Your Heart Pounding
Summer and suspense fiction go together like the Fourth of July and firecrackers. Book critic Maureen Corrigan recommends four books that are deadly accurate in their aim to entertain.
From Blueprints To Betrayal: The Daring, And Downfall, Of A Cold War Spy
Initially, the CIA was suspicious of Soviet aviation expert Adolf Tolkachev. But he earned the agency's trust — and provided blueprints, documents and plans that were crucial to the U.S.