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'Industry' got pulpier, nastier, and better in Season 3

11:30pm September 29, 2024

Industry is less concerned with whether its characters are “likable” and more interested in how they get what they want. In the Season 3 finale, those ambitions reached their inevitable – sometimes gruesome – conclusions.

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Kris Kristofferson, musical rebel and movie star, has died at age 88

6:51pm September 29, 2024

Musician and film star Kris Kristofferson has died at age 88. His hit songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" and he starred in dozens of films, including A Star Is Born, opposite Barbra Streisand.

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Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker' at 50

5:40pm September 29, 2024

by Scott Detrow

Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" was published 50 years ago this month. We meet the author, and learn why he delves so deep in his research.

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Sunday Puzzle: drugstore scramble

8:00am September 29, 2024

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Northwest Public Broadcasting listener Midge Komenda of Lacey, Washington.

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Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction with his essay collection 'The Message'

7:48am September 29, 2024

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new collection of three essays, "The Message." It is Coates' return to nonfiction after nearly a decade.

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Sydney Freeland on 'Rez Ball', the new underdog sports film on Netflix

7:48am September 29, 2024

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Sydney Freeland whose new Netflix movie, "Rez Ball," is about a Navajo boys' basketball team vying for a state championship.

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Should you vote your feelings? A traveling play helps audiences think that through

7:00am September 29, 2024

An acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show encourages the audience to think about why they're voting the way they do.

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"America's Got Talent" Season 19 Red Carpet

'It was like a circus': What Terry Crews learned from his NFL career

5:00am September 29, 2024

Terry Crews went to college on an art scholarship, played football in the NFL and now stars in movies and hosts America's Got Talent. The key, he says, is to be really good at failure.

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'Wait Wait' for September 28, 2024: Live in Kansas City with Dionne Warwick!

12:30pm September 28, 2024

This week, Wait Wait is live in Kansas City with special guest Dionne Warwick, and panelists Josh Gondelman, Shantira Jackson, and Paula Poundstone

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Artists compete to have their paintings of ducks featured on a U.S. stamp

8:49am September 28, 2024

Every year, hundreds of artists across the country compete to have their painting of ducks or other waterfowl featured on a U.S. Stamp.

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