Arts

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'National Review' Writer And Former Service Member On Defining Patriotism

8:12am May 26, 2018

David French, senior writer for the National Review and a former major in the U.S. Army Reserve, describes what patriotism means to him this Memorial Day weekend.

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W. Kamau Bell On The Meaning Of Patriotism

8:12am May 26, 2018

W. Kamau Bell, host of CNN's United Shades of America, discusses what patriotism means to him this Memorial Day weekend.

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Not My Job: 3 Questions For 'Good Girls' Star Retta About Good Boys

7:17am May 26, 2018

Retta is best known for her role as Donna on the hit comedy Parks and Recreation. She has just published a book of essays called So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know.

Steve Martin appears with Martin Short in the new Netflix special Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.

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Stream, Don't Steam: Holiday Weekend Watches For Your Lazy Bones

7:00am May 26, 2018

by Linda Holmes

We've rounded up just five of the things you can use to break up a hot and summery holiday weekend, from comedy to an indie film to classic banter.

Zan (Elle Fanning), an alien, starts a romance with Enn (Alex Sharp), a British punk, in How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

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John Cameron Mitchell On Punks, Aliens And The Queerness Of 'How To Talk To Girls'

5:39pm May 25, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

The writer/director has turned a Neil Gaiman short story into a film starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. It follows an alien exploring the 1970s punk music scene of Croydon, England.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock was written by Joan Lindsay in 1967 and made into a very moody and memorable movie by director Peter Weir in 1975. Now, a new TV miniseries picks up the story of an ill-fated picnic in rural, turn-of-the-century Australia.

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Venture Into The Australian Wilderness For A Chilling 'Picnic At Hanging Rock'

4:59pm May 25, 2018

by David Bianculli

As the story goes, on Valentine's Day 1900, several students and their teacher slipped away from a holiday picnic and never returned. Amazon's new six-part TV miniseries explores the legend.

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Books
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Fresh Air Remembers Novelist Philip Roth

3:35pm May 25, 2018

We listen back to excerpts from Roth's interviews about The Plot Against America and Everyman. Roth died Tuesday at age 85. He spoke with Terry Gross seven times over the years.

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Law enforcement officers usher a handcuffed Harvey Weinstein into the courthouse for his arraignment in Manhattan on Friday.

Harvey Weinstein Charged With Rape After Surrendering To N.Y. Police

3:26pm May 25, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The disgraced Hollywood megaproducer turned himself in to authorities Friday morning in New York City, where he was charged with rape and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two women.

Béla Bartók: One Of A Kind

11:25am May 25, 2018

Composer Béla Bartók was the father of ethnomusicology, scouring the villages of Eastern Europe for folk songs.

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Economy

Zeynep Tufekci: How Is Our Attention Packaged And Sold As A Commodity?

10:28am May 25, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Why is it so easy to burn through an hour on YouTube or Facebook? Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci explains how advertisting algorithms have turned our attention into a valuable commodity.

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