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Reading The Game: This War Of Mine

7:00am December 16, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Our occasional series on storytelling in video games returns with This War of Mine — a game about surviving during wartime that proved so wrenching, our critic couldn't bring himself to finish it.

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell starred in the 1940 farce His Girl Friday, where a newspaper editor tries to win back his ex-wife, an ace reporter.

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In A Crisis Of Sexual Harassment, Whither The Office Romance?

7:05pm December 15, 2017

by Neda Ulaby

Efforts to eliminate harassment in the workplace target a site where couples tend to meet and fall in love — but also a place where power can be abused.

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How The TV And Movies Are Using Gen X Nostalgia

4:23pm December 15, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers and Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon sit down to talk about this era of TV and movies, many of which are catering to Gen X nostalgia — from Stranger Things to the latest Star Wars film.

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'Last Jedi' Puts The Smarts — And The Heart — Back Into The 'Star Wars' Franchise

1:39pm December 15, 2017

by David Edelstein

The late Carrie Fisher makes her final appearance — now as General Leia — in Star Wars Episode VIII. Critic David Edelstein says The Last Jedi is nothing short of terrific.

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Mystery Guest

12:31pm December 15, 2017

Mystery guest Mary McKenzie runs an unusual business. Can you guess her secret before Ophira and Jonathan do?

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Host Ophira Eisenberg and author Roxane Gay on Ask Me Another at Hard Rock Live, Orlando, Florida.

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Roxane Gay: The Facts And The Furious: Orlando Drift

12:29pm December 15, 2017

AMA's at Hard Rock Live Orlando! Roxane Gay talks about writing the memoir she planned to avoid, and her 243-point Scrabble play. Plus, a game about her favorite movies: The Fast and the Furious.

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Rhymes With Orange

12:27pm December 15, 2017

Contestants are challenged to a quiz about obscure words that rhyme with famously unrhymable words.

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What's So Funny?

12:27pm December 15, 2017

Can you tell a Fran Drescher from a Seth Rogen? In this quiz, contestants have to identify famous people from their distinctive laughs.

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This, That, Or The Other

12:27pm December 15, 2017

Our contestants give it their all—blood, sweat and tears, win, lose or draw. Can you guess whether each phrase is a Pitbull lyric, a nursery rhyme or a Mark Twain quote?

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Hard Times

12:27pm December 15, 2017

Did you know that Neil Diamond is a ten on the Mohs Scale of Hardness? In honor of our venue, Orlando's Hard Rock Live, we rewrote famous rock 'n roll songs to be about things that are hard.

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