Arts

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Hallmark teams up with the NFL and Kansas City Chiefs to release a holiday romance

4:15pm June 29, 2024

Hallmark is teaming up with the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs to make a holiday romance movie, capitalizing on Travis Kelce's relationship with Taylor Swift.

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'Wait Wait' for June 29, 2024: With Not My Job guest Christian Mcbride

12:30pm June 29, 2024

This week, Wait Wait is live in Philly with special guest Christian McBride and panelists Dulcé Sloan, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Peter Grosz

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Wow! These amazing drone's-eye views of our world are up for best drone photo

10:04am June 29, 2024

by Kamala Thiagarajan

Here's a selection of finalists for the Siena Drone Photo Award competition of 2024: a wrestling match, an awesome bridge, a snow-covered village and pelicans!

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Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her directorial debut with 'Janet Planet'

8:06am June 29, 2024

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker tells NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben about her screenplay and directorial debut, "Janet Planet."

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In 'Timid,' there is bravery under the surface

7:00am June 29, 2024

by Tahneer Oksman

Many assume that timidity -- or its close cousin, shyness -- is solely a negative trait. But longtime cartoonist Jonathan Todd shows this is not always the case in this semi-autobiographical tale.

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Science

A robot gets a face of living ‘skin’ that allows it to smile

6:02am June 29, 2024

by Bill Chappell

If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you?

Christian McBride performs at An Evening With Christian McBride at the GRAMMY Museum on February 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.

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Live in Philly with jazz legend Christian McBride!

3:01am June 29, 2024

This week, we're live in Philly with jazz legend Christian McBride. He talks about the secret power all bassists possess and translates Philly slang for panelists Peter Grosz, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Dulcé Sloan.

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Martin Mull, comedian and actor in 'Arrested Development' and 'Roseanne,' dies at 80

11:22pm June 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

Martin Mull came to national fame with a recurring role on the Norman Lear-created satirical soap opera “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” and the starring role in its spinoff, “Fernwood Tonight."

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In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point

8:03pm June 28, 2024

Kinds of Kindness is a weird, dark, and bleak film. It's directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) and it re-teams him with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, along with Jesse Plemons. Each actor plays different characters in three different stories — which all involve someone going to extreme measures to regain something they've lost.

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Jury orders NFL to pay billions in 'Sunday Ticket' case for violating antitrust laws

1:58pm June 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

The lawsuit covered 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48,000 businesses in the United States who paid for the package of out-of-market games from the 2011 through 2022 seasons on DirecTV.