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Alison Brie as Ruth, in the ring on GLOW.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'GLOW' And Lena Waithe

6:00am June 23, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

The gang tackles Netflix's new wrestling-themed dramedy, and then Linda Holmes interviews Master Of None costar Lena Waithe onstage in Los Angeles. All that, plus What's Making Us Happy this week.

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Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) and Emily (Zoe Kazan) in The Big Sick.

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'The Big Sick' Is A Tonic For What Ails You

5:00pm June 22, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

Critic Andrew Lapin praises the "unique, understated comic irony" of this largely autobiographical rom-com about a couple whose young relationship gets tested by matters cultural — and medical.

L to R: Elle Fanning as Alicia (Elle Fanning), Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), Edwina (Kirsten Dunst), Jane (Angourie Rice), Amy (Oona Laurence), Emily (Emma Howard), and Marie (Addison Riecke) in The Beguiled

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A Wounded Union Soldier In A House Of Southern Women: 'The Beguiled'

5:00pm June 22, 2017

by Ella Taylor

Sofia Coppola's lush visual aesthetic infuses this study in sublimated lust with just enough sly, Southern-Gothic bodice-ripping to intrigue and satisfy.

Tea ceremony participants in Kyoto, Japan from In Pursuit of Silence.

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Documentary Scours Our Noisy Globe 'In Search Of Silence'

5:00pm June 22, 2017

by Scott Tobias

Director Patrick Shen features plenty of talking heads opining about our essential need for quiet and solitude, but this film works best when he captures moments of pristine, meditative stillness.

'From The Ashes' Documents Rise And Fall Of Coal In America

4:31pm June 22, 2017

After President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to lead a group of mayors, governors and CEOs in cutting emissions according to the Paris framework. And now Bloomberg also has a film out documenting coal's rise and fall in America, From the Ashes.

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'GLOW' And 'Prime Suspect': Two TV Series You Won't Want To Miss

1:38pm June 22, 2017

by David Bianculli

In both of these period pieces — one set in the 1970s, the other in the 1980s — women have it tough, whether they're wrestling with their demons, or actually wrestling.

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Arts Economy Continues To Grow Across Triad

11:26am June 22, 2017

by Eddie Garcia

There's new data about the financial impact of the arts in the Triad.

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Pop Gun War: Chain Letter, by Farel Dalrymple

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Shades Of Gray Turn Sumptuous In 'Chain Letter'

7:00am June 22, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

In Chain Letter, cartoonist Farel Dalrymple returns to The City, the mysterious metropolis at the heart of his early 2000s series Pop Gun War. It's a weird, complicated and charming place.

"I wanted to explore that kind of grief, that desire...to bring back who you love and to wish for that power not simply out of hubris, but to see the one you love back again," LaValle says.

Updating Frankenstein For The Age of Black Lives Matter

6:46am June 22, 2017

by Gene Demby

The classic tale of the Monster resurrected from the dead gets a new treatment in Victor LaValle's new limited-series comic.

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'Epicurious' Editor Goes Inside The Home To Find Greatest Chefs

5:56pm June 21, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with David Tamarkin, editor of the website Epicurious, about his recent project compiling a list of "The 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time."

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