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Fact Bag With Thomas Middleditch And Ben Schwartz

12:41pm May 01, 2020

Fact Bag re-emerges from the digital cloud to once again relay a fresh set of facts. Why? Because facts never sleep and neither does Fact Bag. Featuring comedians Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz.

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Natasha Rothwell

12:41pm May 01, 2020

Writer and actor Natasha Rothwell talks about Insecure, writing for Saturday Night Live, and performing comedy in Japan. Then, she plays a game about real and fictitious home renovation shows.

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The Ask Me Another Hotline

12:41pm May 01, 2020

Listeners call in to talk about the most decadent and shameful things they've eaten since social distancing began, because honestly? Making whipped coffee is more fun in theory than in practice.

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Screenwriter Archie (Jeremy Pope, left) and wannabe director Raymond (Darren Criss) run lines in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood.

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'Hollywood' Serves Up A Progressive Alt-History Parable, Thinly Sliced

5:43am May 01, 2020

by Glen Weldon

Noble-minded (and determined you don't forget that) but glibly made, the latest Ryan Murphy Netflix miniseries offers an alternate history in which brave Hollywood types change the world.

Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler would never breathe on each other like this (an earlier moment in the series) in the new Parks and Recreation special, but at least they can talk on video.

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From 'Parks And Recreation,' A Brief But Delightful Return To Pawnee

9:02pm April 30, 2020

by Linda Holmes

Thursday night's special may not have been a narrative necessity, but it was a welcome joy to visit with Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson and the rest of our old pals.

Officer Clemmons: A Memoir, by François S. Clemmons

Officer Clemmons, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Policeman Pal, Tells His Story

5:17pm April 30, 2020

by Nicholas Cannariato

Dr. François S. Clemmons' ambition and artistry, pain and struggle informed the person behind his character, Officer Clemmons. His memoir is often disarming in its intimacy and honesty.

Kris (Amber Havard), a directionless 14-year-old, finds a possible purpose in Bull.

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Troubled Teen Finds New Direction In Clear-Eyed 'Bull'

5:00pm April 30, 2020

by Scott Tobias

A 14-year-old girl finds herself drawn to bull riding in this "humble and low-key to a fault" debut feature.

Dorothea Lange, White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco (1933). Sarah Meister, MoMA's photography curator, sees new resonance in Lange's photographs of aid lines like this one, which stood nearby Lange's studio in Northern California.

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'A Community Of Desperation' Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange

4:22pm April 30, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The American photographer intimately documented the upheavals of the Great Depression. Now, amid the upheavals of the coronavirus, Lange's portraits of humanity and adversity still have a lot to say.

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'If The Trees Can Keep Dancing, So Can I' : A Community Poem To Cope In Crisis

3:24pm April 30, 2020

by Rachel Martin

Kwame Alexander, NPR's poet in residence, reads the latest crowdsourced poem, this one focused on how you've been affected by and coping during the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Will Your Kids Love Your Favorite Childhood Reads? Let's Find Out

10:00am April 30, 2020

by Juanita Giles

With few new books coming in, our kids' books columnist turns to the favorite reads of her childhood — beginning with the 19th-century classic Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.